Criticise Me

The Observer reports an inter­esting decision over at the Daily Mail. With the retire­ment of its tele­vi­sion critic Peter Paterson, it has opted to replace him with… no-​​​​one. Since tele­vi­sion reviews are among the best-​​​​read sections of any news­paper, the decision seemed perverse. But, as Peter Preston explains, it is actually cleverly calculated:

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Web 2.0 in the Guardian

The Guardian reckons Web 2.0 is ready for the main­stream with its Weekend section dom­in­ated by a 15-​​​​page feature entitled ‘A Bigger Bang’. John Lanchester’s article provides the keynote to the section, in a piece which is well-​​​​written and clever:

a new wave of innov­a­tion on the internet, an innov­a­tion focused not so much on new

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MySpace Doooomed. Allegedly.

The Washington Post has a story about young­sters leaving MySpace in droves that recently hit the front page of digg. And the WSJ agrees with a spookily similar story. Hang on. I recall reading another remark­ably similar story four months ago [digg link — the news­paper has moved the piece].

I think these stories

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