Battle of Big Thinking part 4: Music discovery, Broadband and content; Nibble

Tim Burrowes

March 19, 2010 1:13

Wednesday saw the APG’s Battle of Big Thinking. The fourth session covered big media ideas. In my view it was the weakest session of the five.

Speaker: Abigail Thomas, head of strategic development, ABC

Topic: What does the National Broadband Network mean for the future of content?

Her argument:

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Tim Burrowes

Tim Burrowes is the publisher of Mumbrella and Unmade. He co-founded Mumbrella in 2008 and sister title Unmade in 2021. He's worked in the UK, Middle East, Asia & Australia and has specialised in writing about the communications world for the last 25 years. He wrote the book Media Unmade, published in 2021, and became the presenter of MediaLand on ABC Radio National in 2025.

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Stephen 20 Mar 10

Completely agree – ABC lady had a great topic but despite their good work on the Gallipoli site, was uninspired, (imagine if I was Barry from the bush etc). The Nibble idea really caught my interest until they produced the creature things, which turned a potentially neat way of analysing your mobile phone interactions into some teenage fad.

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