As Facebook launches Places, I’ve written a feature about the location check-in space for Media in The Australian.

20 September 2010 | Facebook falls for location fad with mobile phone help

In the wake of Disney’s purchase of game developer Playdom for $633m, I’ve written a feature for Media in The Australian on the social gaming phenomenon.

23 August 2010 | Disney pays $633m to expand into social gaming

I have been writing a bit about Facebook for The Australian recently.

I have an article in the Monday media section of The Australian about Facebook’s rocky relationship with the Australian Federal Police, based on an exclusive interview with Facebook’s chief security officer Joe Sullivan.

This follows my story in the news pages last week, which gave an Australian angle to the widely reported privacy update. I was at the press conference with Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and put to him the comments by Australian communication minister Stephen Conroy that the site had shown “complete disregard for users’ privacy”.

Back in March I wrote about Facebook’s response to defacement of tribute pages for murdered Australian schoolchildren. I mentioned this previously but it seems worth sharing the link again in this context.

This week I have another feature for The Australian‘s Media section, this time on 3D television. If you have a spare few thousand dollars and you’re prepared to sit around the living room wearing silly glasses, you can have the 3D cinema experience at home. Sports and video games are likely to be the big drivers to convince people to take up the technology, though the HDTV revolution is too recent for 3D to become mainstream just yet.

15 March 2010 | Home invasion of 3D’s visual power

I have a feature in The Australian‘s Media section today about Facebook and the issues with the defacement of tribute pages for dead children in Australia. I met with the face of Facebook Debbie Frost in San Francisco on Friday for a lengthy one-on-one interview and the feature is running in tomorrow’s paper. Of course, it’s already the future in Australia, so here’s the link:
The Australian, Media, 1 March 2010: Faceless no more – Facebook admits errors

My profile of Rebekah Brooks, nee Wade, is in The Australian today. The editor of British tabloid The Sun, the biggest selling newspaper in UK, is set to take the helm at News International, Rupert Murdoch’s British newspaper division.

I interviewed some of Wade’s current and former colleagues at News International, including her former editor at the News of the World, Phil Hall.

The full story is in The Australian‘s Media section today and online.

My profile of BBC One controller Jay Hunt is in the media section of The Australian today.

The story is largely based on an one-on-one interview I did with Hunt – one of only two she gave in the months after taking the job last year (the other was to Britain’s Daily Telegraph).

Hunt is arguably the second most powerful woman in British television – after Jana Bennett, the director of BBC Vision. She is also an Australian by birth.

Read the Jay Hunt profile here.