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Tom Valcanis

Melbourne
As seen in: Independent Australia, The Spectator Australia, Startup Daily, Inside Small Business, Hysteria Mag
Covers:  men's lifestyle, domain names, pop music, rock music, culture, heavy metal, men's issues, internet, technology, small business, lifestyle
Doesn't Cover: telecommunications
Journalist and copywriter dude. @straczynski is my co-pilot. ad culpam, ab obscuro

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Occasional freelance journalist that's worked chiefly in music and culture. I'm a former editor of Hysteria Mag (2014-2020). Former contributor to Beat Magazine, HEAVY Mag, The Big Issue Australia and TheVine. I've dropped copy into Junkee.com, MetalAsF--k, Upstart Magazine and Onya. In 2010 I worked in the newsrooms of NewsBites, a finance news wire and local paper Melbourne City News. I write reviews, features, news stories and criticism. Current contributor to Flying Solo, occasionally The S…

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Dead Letter Circus

Dead Letter Circus

"Once we got a hint of where the album was going, we were just the vessels for it arriving in people's ears,"…

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We Found An Australian Who Was On China's 'If You Are The One', And Asked Him A Bunch Of Question...

We Found An Australian Who Was On China's 'If You Are The One', And Asked Him A Bunch Of Question...

I found an Australian contestant on China's wildly popular and new dating show, "If You are the One."

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Between The Buried And Me: We Don't Not Unlike Science

Between The Buried And Me: We Don't Not Unlike Science

A candid interview with Between The Buried And Me guitarist Paul Waggoner for Hysteria Magazine.

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Lunar Eclipse: Celebrating 40 Years of Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon

Lunar Eclipse: Celebrating 40 Years of Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon

A piece looking at the cultural impact of prog rock titans Pink Floyd on Australian artists and musicians.

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Top 10 of 2012: Lies Music Critics Told You

Top 10 of 2012: Lies Music Critics Told You

As TheVine hurtles towards 2013 and the holiday season, we've asked our critics to give us their Top 10 best …

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The case for using animations in your marketing content

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By Tom Valcanis
| Inside Small Business Verified
It’s been almost two decades since you (me, and everyone you know) were dubbed TIME Magazine’s Person of the Year for 2006. We all won it because we were powering the second iteration of the World Wide Web, Web 2.0, through uploading our own short, ten-minute or fewer films to YouTube. As the cost per gigabyte of storage decreased and media compression algorithms advanced, every social network allowed uploads of video content in some form.
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Flexicar founder and Wavemaker Impact investor Monique Conheady joins Hysata Board

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By Leonard Bernardone, Jian Xu, Maeve Couch, Tom Valcanis
| Startup Daily Verified
Clean tech founder and investor Monique Conheady has added another directorial arrow to her corporate quiver, joining the board of Wollongong hydrogen electrolyser startup Hysata. Conheady was cofounder of the pioneering carshare startup Flexicar, acquired by Hertz Australia, and now chairs companies Energy Safe Victoria and JET Charge, as well as being a Breakthrough Victoria director.
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Atlassian and government back tech policy think tank after ANU cans it

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By Leonard Bernardone, Jian Xu, Maeve Couch, Tom Valcanis
| Startup Daily Verified
Canberra has a new think tank for tech policy founded by three women to offer advice on the way forward in a digital world. The Tech Policy Design Institute (TPDi) bills itself as Australia’s first non-partisan, independent think tank focused on best practice technology policy.
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What was your first job as a journalist?

Writing for a small street press in Melbourne, Buzz Magazine.

Have you ever used a typewriter?

Yes. Once.

How is social media changing news?

It's allowing people to produce it and access it easily - which can also carry with it inaccuracies and bias.