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20 questions

December 24, 2009 in General by matt | 1 comment

The editor at New Matilda emailed asking for max 140 character answers for a piece. Not sure it’s really crowdsourcing when you get contributors for contribs, but NM’s one of the original online magazines in a rapidly expanding field. Here’s what I sent in.

Where are the best fish and chips near you?

Fishface serves up fish+chips for a pricey $15 on Darlinghurst Road, but it’s totally worth it.

Will this be your first tweeted festive season?

I’m tweeting my way through the ham, pudding and prawns season for the third time on Friday. But it’s friends/fam/eating/drinking, not tweeting.

What’s the best Christmas present Twitter could give you?

An easy way of managing multiple accounts?

Followers: quantity or quality?

Talking followers at xmas seems oddly appropriate – I’m happy both ways, if someone decides to follow my tweets, they’re quality in my book.

What is your favourite season-appropriate song?

I love doing xmas specials on my radio shows and have songs well and truly stockpiled. @wayneandwax’s heavy remix-mas is a fave.

It’s Christmas Night. You turn on the TV. What movie should be broadcast?

Flying High, Spinal Tap, Weekend at Bernie’s? Short attention span, a little stupid and definitely no xmas theme.

What is your attitude to office Christmas parties?

Office party a la Mad Men, with loads of booze, good looking colleagues and maybe a small fork lift? Yes, keen on those.

In 140 characters or less, what is the future of journalism?

“The future’s already here, it’s just unevenly distributed” (from @williamgibson)

If the Walkleys had a best tweeter category, who would you nominate?

The best tweeters are disarmingly frank, insightful, entertaining; @vasilikaliman is all that and deliciously bitchy about the art world.

Who is your favourite tweep?

It’s not so much the specific tweeters, but the back and forth collective flow of ideas. It’s all about scenes/community, you know?

Read the final cut, Twitter For World Governor 2010: 20 Questions, and now The Twitterati Speaks: 20 Questions at New Matilda. BTW I’m @fortunegrey.

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12 word stories

August 31, 2009 in General by matt | No comments

Canvas had a writing special yesterday. I interviewed Reif Larsen, author of the fantastical debut novel The Selected Works of TS Spivet, plus artist Emily Floyd, and Liz Keen from 12words.com.au.

We put the call out on Twitter for 12 word stories, and got some good ones.

Sleepless night. Tired. But the day is too beautiful to waste. (@russki_fro)

The last thing she wanted was a scandal bigger than her own. (@brevity24)

Reading braille by the beach, granules beneath fingertips, her story ever changing. (@macleanbrendan)

Off to play scrabble in the park. Canvas is worth 11 points. (Blake Thompson)

Go on, jump, you’ll not bang your head. (@lynniferm)

Pigs love mud. Pigs have fun when they play in mud. (@judeekerick from Jett 7yrs old)

when i left at 6, it was snowing. on arrival it was sunshine (@urthboy)

she moved quietly through the dark rooms she could feel their presence. (@kutira)

Dear person who drained my bank account: I will find you. (@sophiemallam)

I dropped one of work’s portable phones down the toilet last night. (@cupcakeaimee)

“Look again!” he said. “Oh, I see it now,” I said. Ouch. (@anthonyjucha)

cornelius eyed off the TV remote. he sought change. flick. flick. change…. (@drbad)

Pretty great, right?

If you want to see Reif, he’s in Australia for the Melbourne Writers Festival and appearing at various bookshops and events (including tonight at Shearer’s Bookshop, Leichardt).

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Talking about Twitter

April 9, 2009 in General by matt | 1 comment

Suddenly it seems everything’s about Twitter. The mainstream press has caught on, running features on it, catching up with a phenomenon that’s been building for a while.

But there’s more to it than Aston Kucher and Hugh Jackman, and it’s not all about the Fake Stephen Conroy either.

So I went and asked a couple of media addicts – Stilgherrian and Stu Buchanan – why they tweet and wrote it all up for New Matilda.

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