http://www.coxmedia.com.au/ Cox Media offers independent expert analysis, speakers and consulting on the media industry to provide you with the information to understand developments and maximise your new business and investment strategies. en-us http://www.coxmedia.com.au/ N/A Tue, 16 Feb 2010 01:51:25 EST 20 ABC PM interview on FTA Fee Rebates Tue, 16 Feb 2010 01:47:09 EST Phil Dobbie provides a weekly podcast on the tangled mess that is Australia's telecommunications industry at http://www.zdnet.com.au/blogs/twisted-wire/ Last week he looked at the history of the internet in Australia. It's been around for 20 years and changed our lives in so many ways. Imagine what it could do given another 20 years. This week he looks into the future and see what the technology will do and its influence on society, business and government. To help us peer into the future we'll hear from: •Simon Hackett, managing director of Internode •Kevin Bloch, the Australian CTO at Cisco •Media analyst Peter Cox •Nicholas Gruen, chair of the government 2.0 taskforce Mon, 14 Dec 2009 12:19:42 EST Back in May, Rupert Murdoch said News Limited would start charging users for access to sections of its online news content. Is it a business model that will work, when web users have got used to getting the news for free? In this edition of Twisted Wire with Phil Dobbie we look into the user-pays model. We might pay for content if it satisfies our specialist interests, but are the major news publishers geared up to provide such a wealth of content? The Fairfax approach is to use news to raise the profile of its family of transactional-based sites, where most of its online revenue comes from. The media company's approach to user-pays is to wait and see although it does, of course, charge (a lot) for access to most content on The Australian Financial Review website. In this week's program we talk to three experts about the future for online news media: •Jack Matthews, CEO of Fairfax Digital •Peter Cox, principal of Cox media •Gerd Leonhard, futurist in the media, technology and communication industries Mon, 14 Dec 2009 12:13:38 EST