Spin Tracker

Press release dis­tri­bu­tion agency PR Newswire and blog search engine Technorati have signed a deal to put a Technorati button into press releases dis­trib­uted through the PR Newswire services.

So what? you may well ask. Well, it will appar­ently allow com­panies to very swiftly measure the impact of any release because any links to them

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A Footnote in History

We often go on, don’t we, about the sharp division between old and new media? About the wailing and gnashing of teeth that char­ac­ter­ises the shift from one to the other.

So it’s nice to see a new product that per­fectly marries the two. And with footnote, we’re talking about very old media.

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The Great Bubble Debate

The WSJ hosts a debate between two venture cap­it­al­ists on whether we’re in a Web 2.0 bubble. The par­ti­cipants are Todd Dagres, founder and general partner of Spark Capital in Boston and David Hornik, a general partner with August Capital in Menlo Park. Don’t expect to come away from the article with a strong opinion one way or

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Do 1/​3 Prefer Citizen Media?

The Mercury News reports, in fairly stuffy tones, on research that estab­lishes once again that the paper itself won’t be quite the same thing before too long:

By a 2–1 ratio, Americans say they would rather watch an old-​​​​fashioned TV evening news report’s coverage of an event than the sort of “citizen video” that has become

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Pastures New

I’m delighted to be able to tell you that I’ve accepted the post of full-​​​​time editor on the New Media Knowledge (NMK) website, starting in the new year. NMK is a learning and business inform­a­tion hub for com­panies and indi­viduals working in UK digital media.

I’ve been writing this blog as a hobby for the

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More than Half Australians Download TV?

Zeropaid reports on a new survey con­ducted in Australia. More than half the respond­ents said that they reg­u­larly down­loaded TV shows from the Internet:

15.75% said they down­loaded a TV program at least once a week, 25.5% said twice or more, with 12% responding once a month, and 17.5% hardly ever.

57.25% said they down­loaded by episode, with

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