Jonathan Nguyen - Latest Comments

Re: http://www.jonathannguyen.net/2008/07/blogging-using-t9-numeric-keypad/

capacitive switch — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 01:34:57 -0000

yah that i find it hard to spell some words also,and blogging with is hard

Re: issues and crisis management in social media

Craig Badings — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 20:43:46 -0000

I know this is a belated comment but these days one cannot underestimate the power of social media in a crisis and Jonathan is right across the tools for doing this.

Re: why men shouldn’t write advice columns

anonymous — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 16:24:17 -0000

I'm a guy but not much of a mechanic. It sounds like good advice to me. What's the complaint?

Re: why men shouldn’t write advice columns

Naruedyoh — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 02:50:35 -0000

Re: why men shouldn’t write advice columns

mher — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 07:48:12 -0000

Haha, even though it might be a fake :-) it still points out the problems of men-women communication:

She's addressing 2 Problems without (in the eyes of the male) priorising which she want's to be answered, so he picks the one he knows the answer to, avoiding the other.

Re: why men shouldn’t write advice columns

Alisa — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 06:05:30 -0000

Haha Great stuff, I am wondering if that is an automatically response system or something.
Maybe they categorize the problems and send publisher standard answers.

Re: why men shouldn’t write advice columns

judithmoore1 — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 03:08:55 -0000

Typical but very funny.

Re: why men shouldn’t write advice columns

jnau — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 16:40:50 -0000

haha! That's fantastic! There's a few more in there as well. Thanks for that!

Re: why men shouldn’t write advice columns

thisISmyname — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 14:32:06 -0000

Weird, i saw a different version of that same joke.
http://www.snopes.com/humor/letters/miriam.asp

Re: end the membership card madness!

jnau — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:36:35 -0000

damn straight, that's a great idea! the only problem would be in five years time, i see myself blogging "end the iphone app madness!"

Re: end the membership card madness!

Tim Nicholas — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:44:14 -0000

Jonathan, I can feel an iPhone app coming on! :0

Re: end the membership card madness!

jnau — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 02:07:49 -0000

...or buy on ebay! the most annoying ones are where you NEED to have a a plastic card to do business with them. even hoyts made me get a damn card. hoyts! i just want to rot my brain for 90 minutes with meaningless trash! why do i need a card?!

Re: end the membership card madness!

bigyahu — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 01:46:32 -0000

...however, if you want to optimise your madness (rather than end it) you can use www.perkler.com!

Re: end the membership card madness!

bigyahu — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 01:45:56 -0000

oh boy, i'll second that emotion! i have a folder full of membership cards at home but never carry anything other than drivers licence, medicare and credit/debit cards. i've found they can usually look me up in their POS terminal to credit me my whatever. if they can't, no big loss — in most cases I'm missing out on 1/1000th of a non-transferrable point that i can redeem for things I don't need advertised 20% over their usual street retail price.

Re: can radian6 be used to prevent suicides and murders?

jnau — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:33:42 -0000

Hi Sarah, Radian6 saw my post and made an offer to help. Let's have a chat about this offline. I'll shoot you through an email.

Re: can radian6 be used to prevent suicides and murders?

SarahMoran — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 07:59:22 -0000

This idea has merit and has crossed my mind a few times too. I think most organisations that currently look at suicide prevention lack the capacity to even understand this technology, let alone apply it. Would be scope to partner though, if radian6 could donate the technology to an organisation that could become capable if they had access to it.

I volunteer for Reachout.com and we have used technology to help young people, initially through the website but also with forums... I would also like to see targeted ads to at risk people - though I'm not familiar enough with keyword capabilities for targeting, one day I hope this would be possible with Facebook. If you right "trigger" words, an ad comes up to direct you to some help in an online environment.

It's all so new and non-profits are often starved of information when it comes to technology - but if you are keen to make this more than an idea I'd love to share thoughts...

Re: “fuck right off” real facebook error message

bujiman — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 01:10:31 -0000

i have this too.. i thought it ws only me

Re: citizen journalism is not journalism

jnau — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 20:20:04 -0000

Hi Paul, it's good to see people are passionate about this topic.

If I may paraphrase, the crux of your argument is that:

Premise 1: TV news lies, and they all tell the lie in ten or two different ways.
Premise 2: If it's on YouTube it must be true
Conclusion: Actually I'm unclear of your conclusion.

Although I believe both your premises are somewhat generalised, it heartens me to know that although our viewpoints differ there are still people who are passionate about news and current affairs. Thanks for taking the time to write your thoughts.

Re: citizen journalism is not journalism

Paul — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 09:49:12 -0000

You have not idea, get a live and learn about current media and web practices...

If you watch any TV news, they all tell you the same story in ten or two different ways, they make up stories, they tell lies and they don't tell you all the real facts either.. is that what journalism is about then?

At least if I watched a video in youtube I know it is from the real source and not an edited bullsh*t journalist version of it.

You are so wrong and old fashion, you are about 10yrs behind everyone else.. you will be one of these people blogging cause you won't be able to get a job soon, so except the technology and citizen journalism - suck it up

Re: Bad for journalism, terrible for PR

jnau — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 06:26:04 -0000

Ok it's not scientific by here's an experiment. Go to the front page of www.smh.com.au and www.news.com.au and count the negative vs positive stories. Or even more telling count the negative and positive stories with just the top half of the screen that is viewable without scrolling. Which stories prevail?

On you second point I partially agree with you. Media relations is only a fraction of the practice of PR. There are the boundary spanning and trusted advisor roles that we play. In this instance though I am referring to the media relations aspect of our role.

Where I differ though is that I don't believe we are better and I don't believe that the world needs more PR people, because what we do, our craft can be distorted and is not always used for good.

In Utopia, you would not need journalists because all companies would be good and so would all governments. Strategic PR is constantly working to build relationships. In Utopia world people don't have self interests.

We don't live in Utopia though and it still needs to balance. That's why we still have the institutions above.

Re: Bad for journalism, terrible for PR

commaim — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 20:31:00 -0000

Nice thinking. However, re 'bad news sells better than good news' - please show me the money on this one, good man. Where is your proof?

It is a good thing that a fundamental tenet of public relations is serving the needs of an organisation and its stakeholders. That is the only way for mutually beneficial relationships to be formed and sustained.

And that, in turn, is the only way for organisations to achieve objectives such as profit, positive reputation etc.

The world needs PR professionals more than it needs journalists. Not least because PR is about so much more than simply media placement.

Re: social media body of knowledge

commaim — Sun, 24 May 2009 19:39:47 -0000

sounds intelligent to me. bring it on.

Re: there will never be an end to print

Susan Wilson — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 03:34:28 -0000

Hi Jonathon,

I am a journalism student at RMIT in Melbourne but I'm also doing some work for Panorama, a news program on SYN radio, which is a Melbourne based youth radio station, and I think you'd be a fantastic interview subject.
If you have a moment in the next day or two, I would love to have a chat with you about the concept of citizen journalism as I'm writing a feature on the subject. I found your views to be pretty interesting and I would like to use you in the article. If you have a moment to spare, could you send me a quick email? sbwil2@gmail.com or the one I've used in the form.

Either way, it's been a pleasure reading your blog.

Cheers,

Susan Wilson

Re: about me

Susan Wilson — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 03:12:57 -0000

Hi Jonathon,

I am a journalism student at RMIT in Melbourne but I'm also doing some work for Panorama, a news program on SYN radio, which is a Melbourne based youth radio station, and I think you'd be a fantastic interview subject.
If you have a moment in the next day or two, I would love to have a chat with you about the concept of citizen journalism as I'm writing a feature on the subject. I found your views to be pretty interesting and I would like to use you in the article. If you have a moment to spare, could you send me a quick email? susan.wilson@student.rmit.edu.au

Either way, it's been a pleasure reading your blog.

Cheers,

Susan Wilson

Re: busted by facebook: kyle doyle and the sickie

Nik — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 21:15:24 -0000

lmfao