I’ve been tagged twice for this so here goes. I have also cheated and extended this out to two weeks…
Telly: watched Extras and Dr Who over Christmas. Neither of them were as good as I’d hoped. Otherwise, I watched The Most Annoying People of the Year on BBC 3 through iPlayer, which was quite possibly [...]
Tag Archives: newspapers
My Week in Media
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Criticise Me
November 19, 2006 – 3:04 pm
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:
Once upon a [...]
The Horror of Partial Fee…
November 9, 2006 – 10:14 am
Great post from fellow Good-blogger Kate on the bête noire that is partial feeds. I share her thoughts entirely on this issue. She’s unsubscribing from anyone or anything that only offers partial feeds. Unfortunately for me, since some of my most important news sources (every (?) UK newspaper and the BBC) only offers partial feeds [...]
More Everything
October 9, 2006 – 10:40 am
A report at FT.com sums up a recent survey by Jupiter Research. The amount of time devoted by Europeans to web use has, for the first time, overtaken the time they spend reading newspapers and magazines:
Print consumption has remained static at three hours a week in the past two years, as time spent online has [...]
Not an Original Idea Between Us
October 5, 2006 – 4:25 pm
Former humourist and Daily Mail correspondent Keith Waterhouse makes friends with the blogosphere:
Seasoned googlers, of whom there is already a vast tribe, are nerds, anoraks and braces-wearers of the worst sort who spend every working moment searching the infernal engine for other people’s blogs.
They are descended from a generation of titterers, pranksters and spokespersons of [...]
The Daily Bundle
October 5, 2006 – 10:29 am
An article in the (London) Times newspaper on Tuesday talked about the extent to which newspapers have been slow to embrace the ‘era of unbundling’. What is unbundling? The author, Jonathan Weber, recalls a remark from Bill Gates in the early 90s. Newspapers, Gates said, bundle together a lot of different stuff, local, national and [...]
Man Bites Mainstream Media
September 21, 2006 – 2:13 pm
In breaking news err… yesterday, NewAssignment.net has received a $100,000 grant from Reuters to hire an editor. NYU journalism professor Jay Rosen explains the project’s agenda:
The idea is to draw “smart crowdsâ€â€”groups of people configured to share intelligence—into collaboration at NewAssignment.Net and get stories done that way that aren’t getting done now. By pooling their [...]
More Web 2.0 is Better… Sometimes
September 20, 2006 – 10:53 am
What’s the business case for Web 2.0 technologies? Well, it depends on your business. For newspaper publishers, the answer appears to be that more is better. You may recall from an earlier post that the Guardian newspaper website tops the league in the UK for Web 2.0 features (research conducted by Robin Hamman. click for [...]
Beers and RSS
September 15, 2006 – 1:58 pm
Went to a networking event last night: Beers and Innovations in Soho. The pretext for the event was to discuss the future of RSS, with presentations from Richard Edwards of MyZebra, Peter Nixey of Webkitchen and Ivan Pope from Snipperoo.
Thanks to the ‘beers’ aspect, my notes get a little sketchy after the first speaker. Richard [...]
Yesterday’s News Works Harder
September 11, 2006 – 3:27 pm
Chris Anderson is interviewed in this week’s Press Gazette. Lots of interesting ideas, and not all about the Long Tail. I picked out the following remarks as key:
On the internet, stories increase in value over time, rather than disappearing, the way they do in printed newspapers and magazines:
In a weird way, [the internet] completely inverts [...]
