When the Cheshire emerges...

Big news day.

Today was a big day for Fairfax and Australian journalism. As a Fairfax employee, it was marked by an email sent to all of us...

So after more than 150 years of publication, The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age are tabloid! I held our office's SMH in my hand today and thought... woah, it's so SMALL!


But I'm for the change. As smart as broadsheets look, the SMH layout looks pretty much the same. It was more the changes to their website I was getting my head around for half the morning as I read through the major stories.

Check out this mUmBrella article which shows an intentional incorrect ad from Commonwealth Bank among discussion of the change. Smart.

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Adelaide was voted the country's most liveable city for the third year running according to a property report with resident responses.




Read comments on SMH and AdelaideNow and wasn't surprised by the differences in comments/angles. Sydney is upset that Melbourne ranked better than them, and everyone's upset because there's still the mentality Adelaide's a backwater.

Melbourne IS more accessible than Sydney, and while Adelaide doesn't exactly have as many job prospects or more efficient transport, it's definitely more liveable in terms of getting around and culture (OK so Melbourne's awesome at culture too, but still, Mad March IS amazing...).

Do you think Adelaide's most liveable within Australia?

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It isn't the world that makes you unhappy, or the way people are in the world. It's how you process the people and events of the world.

Instead of judging others as people who ought to behave in certain ways, see them as reflecting a part of you, and ask yourself what it is you're ready to learn from them.