Don't know why this is suddenly all happening now, but I've been contacted by a good cross-section of the Australian media over the last couple of days. In addition to the Online Opinion piece [3] which is now up, at first Jennifer Dudley from Brisbane's Courier-Mail [4] approached me as an expert commentator on blogging; she's published an article about information addiction in today's issue (which itself is based on a posting by blogger Om Malik who points to a kind of 'Internet Anxiety Disorder [5]' that results from the vastness of information now available to everyone). Then I was approached by Peter Gooch from ABC radio [6] to do a live interview on the same topic, sparked by that article. I was on air around 1.30 p.m. today.

And within the last hour I've had a phone call from Network Ten [7] who want to interview me for their kids' news show [8] later this week, about the future of the media. I'm planning to talk about the growing trend towards produsage [9] and grassroots creativity, and might put in a plug for the fantastic digital storytelling content already produced by participants in the Youth Internet Radio Network (YIRN) [10].

Update: believe it or not, I've just heard that another Courier-Mail journalist wants to get some comments (this time on online gaming)... What's going on here?

Further update: the Ten interview has been postponed for a week while they're focussing on the papal conclave. Well, more time for me to make up my mind about what to say.