(Originally published on the ABC news site, The Drum 08/07/11) MySpace’s diminished return. By Aaron Flanagan This week, Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation sold the original social media phenomenon, MySpace, for less than 7 per cent of what they bought it for in 2005. It represents not only a spectacular failure by News Corp to manage new media business, but also is an indication of establishment media’s unwillingness to engage with anything outside their pre-internet comfort zone. Under News Corp, MySpace’s subscribers fell from a peak …
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Masked and sometimes caped crusaders occupy mythic positions in society. The Scarlet Pimpernel, Batman – in fact any super-hero you care to think of – use anonymity to progress good against entrenched, begrudging power cliques. Onto the stage – the digital stage and this time in real-life, strides blogger and prolific Tweeter – Grog’s Gamut. He is a Twitter sub-culture phenomenon, blogging and tweeting anonymously and with undoubted journalism skill. The package is now in the open, his mask ripped off. The eagle …