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MOOCs will eat SAE, JMC, AIM, TAFEs and most Universities!
MONDAY OCT 1, 2013 Last week a group of Vice Chancellors debated the threat from Masssive Open Online Courses offered by edX, Coursera, Udacity and our favorite, the Khan Academy. The Vice Chancellors say their profession may be at the tipping point, and noted how the internet has upended Newspapers, Music, Book stores, travel agents…
Read MoreDick Smith sale sets value of Allans Billy Hyde stores
Friday 28 September 2012. (Picture above from Allans Billy Hyde website) Woolworths has just sold the 325 store Dick Smith chain for just $20 million. The Dick Smith chain was ‘divested’ because it was a management distraction. After closing unprofitable stores, Woolworths wrote down the value of the chain to just $20 million, despite the…
Read MoreNIDA and the Cost Of Training
Chris Puplick lashed NIDA in an essay where he accused the head as being ‘Thatcherite’. This was to compare Lynn Willians with Tory leader Margaret Thatcher who was once described as adopting male aggression to rule the UK. The NIDA debate caused media to cost the outcomes, with 40 student graduates against the $12 million…
Read MoreFrom the CX Newsroom:
We’re joined at the expanding CX by Andy Stewart, former editor of Audio Technology Magazine. Also new this month is Clinton Hughey-Trueman who writes on lighting matters. Sad news this month as Australian Musican mag was binned after 18 years. CX will be the last magazine standing after the media Armageddon is all over! Speaking…
Read MoreBehringer angry at CX review of X32
Should product reviews make manufacturers happy? Here’s one that didn’t. For over 22 years CX has held editorial independence as a hard won principle, so we were not about to ship our X32 review to Behringer for ‘approval’ before we published. Now we wonder whether we (Julius and Jimmy Den Ouden) went too hard. Which…
Read MoreWaiting for the truck at 3am. Road crew story? No, media!
My newsagent is Carey from Wahroonga Village. He rolls up at 3am to meet the trucks from News Limited (Telegraph, Australian) and Fairfax (Herald and Australian Financial Review). The papers are rolled and delivered by 5.30am. Not today. For the second time in recent weeks, one of the trucks was horribly late. Last time it…
Read MoreSlow News Day: Rode guy goes Jewellery, Cops invite CX, Aust Muso RIP
Monday 10 Sept 2012: SYDNEY Maybe it’s the weather – balmy and calm. The news is thin today. Peter (Rode) Freedman just launched his Jewellery design and manufacture company. “Jewellery is very much like mics. Mics are very much the Jewellery of the audio game after all. This is definitely a hobby though, nothing more.…
Read MoreJuliusmedia Resumes Training
The Concourse Chatswood has become the first performing arts centre in Australia to offer in-house backstage technical training to external applicants. Short courses in stage lighting and theatre sound will commence across the Christmas school holidays, aimed at those interested in obtaining practical technical skills. Training at The Concourse will be conducted by Juliusmedia, the…
Read MoreCX September article on TOD fees
TOD story (download PDF)
Read MoreCX reported possible collapse in February 2012
(23 August) CX said the possible collapse would rejuvenate the struggling music equipment retail market. In the same way that removing Borders helped smaller retailers. For our trouble, we received a royal shellacking from Australian Music Group directors and a nice bag of hate mail from clearly distressed and upset store staff. Understandable. At the…
Read MoreAustralian Music Group falls
Pictured today, the flagship Sydney store in the chain of 30 Allens Billy Hydes outlets. The Liquidation Sale is just that – the stores, and importer Music Link, are on the block today after entering voluntary administration. (Franchised stores are not included). It’s a sad day for three hundred staff across Australia. The Music Link…
Read MoreTOD fees: an insider perspective (Melb)
14 August 2012 In another time in my life I was both a senior account manager and part of the leadership team at Staging Connections in Melbourne. I am now an event producer and am subject to the TOD charges that you speak of. SC owes me nothing nor me it. I am not speaking…
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