Australian Newsagency Blog

Then there are the bloggers.In return for their free content, we pretty much get what we’ve paid for - something of such limited intellectual value as to be barely discernible from massive ignorance.Andrew Keen in his book The Cult of the Amateur cites Hurricane Katrina as an example when: “reports from people at the […]

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I received a letter from lawyers representing NDD today claiming that my post on Monday contains false, misleading and deceptive statements.  I have reread the blog post and don’t see how they can reach this conclusion.
I wish NDD were as attentive to calls for more equitable supply arrangements with newsagents as they appear to be […]

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I don’t want to read this on the blog … This is for you and not for the blog … Just don’t blog about it … Off the record means off the blog.
These are just some of the statements which have preceeded meetings I take and phonecalls I receive since this blog really started attracting […]

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If I publish a comment here I do so using my own name. I do not publish comments using another name. Comments are not moderated.

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I am regularly contacted by suppliers about what I write (and have written in the past) here - usually because of a negative comment.  Some of this contact results in good dialogue and even sees issues resolved while other contact is a complaint that I dare to complain publicly. Other contact is to suggest that […]

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The comments made here recently have attracted the attention of respected Australian blogger Trevor Cook. This attention ought to serve as a reminder that this is a public place and that any comments posted reflect on the community as well as the person making the comments.

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It is disappointing that a few commenters at this blog spew hatred instead of rational comment.  The comments posted on Thursday evening by one person using seven different names served to make himself or herself look stupid and for readers to therefore disregard their view.
The purpose of my original post was to open a discussion […]

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I have been thinking about the proposed bail out by the US Government to the tune of US$700 billion for banks and other institutions affected by the “global credit crisis”. It bothers me when I see any government writing big cheques for big business when individuals and small businesses do it tough thanks to […]

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It seems like gremlins might be having a crack at the server hosting this blog.  Sorry for the outages today.

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Thomas T, Mary Perna, Mark Anonymous, Ron Johnson, and Robbie Mascon, a specific group of people who have posted comments here over the last two months, are all posting from the same IP address.  This suggests they are either living together, working at the same office or that they are all the same person.  The […]

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Garry Goodman of Churchill Newsagency has started a blog.  I’ll add a link to the blog roll on the right.  Garry joins Jarryd Moore of newsXpress Singleton and Peter Dunn of Dunn’s Newsagency in Tamworth as the Australian newsagency bloggers of which I am aware.  Steven Denham is the UK based newsagent writing at the […]

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I have been doing some housekeeping around the newsagency blog this morning and checked traffic stats. This blog is attracting, on average, 1050 visits a day. Each visit results in 2.85 pages viewed per visit and the average time on the site per visit is three minutes.

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Comments can be posted here again thanks to the efforts of our tech team. We had issues last week following a malicious attack against the server on which the blog is hosted.

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Placing the Underbelly book at the counter of our three newsagencies was a success, we sold out. This was on my mind this morning since my post here about us selling Underbelly is the fourth most viewed post on this blog in the last two months. The top three, in order, are: Customers […]

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I was talking with a tech savvy newsagent yesterday and he’d never heard of Twitter. I’d be interested to know if anyone reading here is playing with it - I only established my Twitter account a couple of months ago.  It’s fascinating.
Twitter helps people keep in touch. It’s also a mini blogging (news) […]

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I am surprised to see News to Business paying Google for their ad to come up people search for newsagency blog when using the search engine. At first, I thought they were paying for the keyword newsagency.  However, after 30 or so clicks, I am certain they are paying for newsagency blog. I […]

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