The old adage in the media industry is, it is who you know, not what you know, that gets you the work. So this group is a chance for media freelancers in Melbourne to get together, chat, network, make new friends and share knowledge. Melbourne Media Freelancers is also a chance for people in the industry to share collective knowledge, create their own projects and come up with creative solutions to some of the pitfalls of being a freelancer running their own business. So if you work in Televisio …

The Girl Geek Dinners were founded on the 16th August 2005 as a result of one girl geek who got annoyed and frustrated about being one of the only females attending technical events. She was tired of being assumed to be marketing, tired of constantly having to prove herself and decided that she just wanted a change and to be treated just the same as any other geek out there, gender and age aside. After all to be geeky is to be intelligent, have passion for a subject and to know that subject in …

The worlds of hackers and journalists are coming together as reporting goes digital and Internet companies become media empires. Journalists call themselves "hacks," someone who can churn out words in any situation. Hackers use the digital equivalent of duct tape to whip out code. Hacker-journalists try to bridge the two worlds. This group is to bring all these people together -- those who are working to help people make sense of their world. It's for hackers exploring technologies to filter and …