The trouble with applying offline rules to online business is that you fail to account for new models. The music industry has fought perhaps the longest, and most misguided, battle of this sort. In an effort to protect what has…
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Monthly Archives: August 2009
Don’t Write That Freesheet Obituary Just Yet
You may recall earlier this week how a picture of Tony Blair’s former spin doctor Alistair Campbell featured erroneously on another man’s obituary. Well, expect his name to be added to Wikipedia’s list of premature obits any time soon. Another entry for…
Tagged with: Evening Standard, London Lite, Metro, News International, Rupert Murdoch, thelondonpaper
Posted in Newspapers, Publishing models
Posted in Newspapers, Publishing models
Top 10 News Aggregators In The UK
Another interesting piece of number crunching from the people at Hitwise. Robin Goad began the week looking at the Ashes effect on the UK internet landscape (mixing business and pleasure, I suspect). He ends it by looking at the relative power of…
Why Ashes 2009 Really Was A Shared National Moment
According to Mark Lawson writing in today’s TV Matters column in the Guardian: These Ashes felt less like a shared national moment because fewer of the nation shared it. There’s no doubt the numbers are compelling – Channel 4 averaged three million…
links for 2009-08-27
The Greying of Social Media And it’s not just Twitter which defying tradition. [Andrew Keen, Telegraph] (tags: Social_Media Facebook MySpace Twitter) The bright side of sitting in traffic: crowdsourcing road congestion data When we combine your speed with the speed…
Posted in Uncategorized
Introducing The Ego Retweet
Researchers at Microsoft have been applying their large brains to the phenomenon of retweeting, the act of copying and rebroadcasting other people’s insight, anecdote and trivia on the microblogging site Twitter. Indeed, as the author’s of the draft paper observe, the retweet (RT)…
Posted in Social media
links for 2009-08-25
Wikipedia to require new biography edits to be approved first It’s more likely that someone will have a beef with a former editor of The Tennessean in Nashville than they will with the atmosphere of Jupiter. [Online Journalism Blog] (tags:…
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Howzat! What The Ashes Did To The Web
So, it turns out that we don’t just follow the over-by-over stuff – fingers guiltily poised on Alt-Tab* – when we’re at work. Hitwise’s Robin Goad has been crunching the all-important numbers and it would seem that the Ashes decider…
Alistair Campbell Not Dead Despite Portuguese Spin
Great spot from the Spectator’s multilingual Clive Davis. Browsing the obituary page of Portugal’s Diário de Notícias, as one does, he discovered “that Britain’s most famous Burnley and Brel fan had spun his last.” Not in the least bit true,…
Posted in Uncategorized
The Week’s Most Read Posts (17-23 August 2009)
What’s Wrong With This Telegraph Front Page? Andrew ‘Freddie’ Flintoff – he may be blonde and grinning, but he’s not female. And he’s not carrying a mystery envelope. [jonbernstein.wordpress.com] (tags: Telegraph Newspapers) The Express Fiddles While The Mail Earns While…
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