If newspapers are in terminal decline who is going to pick up the mantle of accountability journalism? So asks NYU professor Clay Shirky, one of the most insightful digital media thinkers around. The fourth estate is a traditional bulwark against…
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YouTube If You Want To: Why Susan Boyle Won’t Save Michael Grade’s Micropayment Plan
Interesting discussion towards the end of last week between Five Live presenter Simon Mayo and ITV’s executive chairman Michael Grade.* Inevitably, they talked Susan Boyle, star of YouTube for the month of June and Grade made a pitch for micropayments.…
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Goodness Gracious, Not So Great Firewall Of China
I mentioned in passing yesterday Clay Shirky’s views on Twitter and events in Iran. Well, you can never have enough of the man and this is worth 17 minutes of your life. Recorded last month and posted in the last…
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