The Daily Star has been dabbling with ‘Le Hand That Rocked The World’, The Times went with a rather clumsy ‘Hand of Gaul’ on Friday’s front page, but there was only ever really one Thierry Henry / plucky Irish heartbreak headline…
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Monthly Archives: November 2009
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How search engines are changing us The way people search is prone to rapid twists and turns. It seems to short circuit the decision-making cycle, allowing the user to think with greater agility. [Polis] (tags: Google Search_Engines) Twitter Usage Is…
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‘Painful, crippling and a loss of crackling creativity’: The Observer on The Observer
An unexpected level of openness in today’s readers’ editor column in the Observer. Stephen Pritchard is the readers’ editor in question and he writes about the crippling fall in advertising to have afflicted Guardian News & Media: revenues down £33m in…
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The Week’s Most Read Posts (2 – 10 Nov 2009)
Sir William Garrow And The Power Of BBC Prime Time A new entry in Amazon’s Hot Future Releases in Business, Finance & Law. [jonbernstein.wordpress.com] (tags: BBC Amazon Twitter) Tweets, Elites And The Same Old News Agenda Has new media reinvigorated…
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The Sun Is Not The First Paper To Misjudge The Mood
For a newspaper that prides itself in being attuned to its readers’ sentiments, it is odd to see The Sun so out of step on the Jamie Janes affair. Odd but not unique. Prime minister Gordon Brown may not be wildly…
Parris Match: On Expenses
Writing in The Times today, columnist Matthew Parris offers a welcome alternative to the tiresome ‘They Still Don’t Get It’ line on MPs’ expenses. And he sheds an interesting light on the bills of newspaper folk at the same time. For…
Tweets, Elites And The Same Old News Agenda
Has new media reinvigorated democracy or throttled good journalism, asks Dr Natalie Fenton in her forthcoming book ‘New Media, Old News: Journalism and Democracy in a Digital Age’. And her answer? Well, the clue is in the title. The book…
Syndication Overload For The New York Times
It feels like déjà vu all over again. Keen-eyed followers of this blog will be familiar with David Rohde’s fascinating account of his seven-month kidnap by the Taliban. Originally published in Rohde’s own paper The New York Times – and simultaneously…
The Danger Of Predicting The Next Big Thing – In Less Than 160 Characters
Here’s a prediction for you – most futurologists will get it wrong most of the time. Beyond that I wouldn’t put the mortgage on anything technology soothsayers tell you. Now is a good time to mark this important truth. Why? Because…
The Week’s Most Read Posts (26 Oct – 1 Nov 2009)
The Me, Me, Me Blog Post A self-indulgent blogger writes… [jonbernstein.wordpress.com] (tags: New_Statesman Jon_Bernstein) Not All Social Media Is Digital And that’s another reason why the hand-delivered letter was interesting. It brought home the potency of ‘push’ communication, when done…
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