With multiple new ways of listening to sound, whether via your phone, an iPod or your laptop, this week we ask whether radio has a future. Its demise has been foretold many times in recent decades and yet radio has managed to renew itself. But is it facing its biggest challenge yet?
http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/mediareport/21-december-2012/4433714
Today would have been the 150th birthday of iconic Australian opera singer Dame Nellie Melba.
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/lifematters/stories/2011/3220419.htm
Do you care about who makes your shoes, where your coffee beans are grown, or the provenance of the timber in your kitchen table?
Lots of us, if asked, are most likely to say ‘yes’. But if we’re honest with ourselves what’s the reality when we head out to make our purchases? Do we truly walk the walk?
Timothy Devinney is a Professor of Strategy at the UTS Business School in Sydney, and also the co-author of The Myth of the Ethical Consumer.
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/lifematters/stories/2011/3200922.htm
The paperless desk never really happened for many of us.
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/lifematters/stories/2011/3176971.htm