You are at the archive for the April, 2009
A selection of my latest bookmarks. You could visit my Tumblelog for more stuff I’ve seen on the web.
Nielsen Wire: Twitter Quitters Post Roadblock to Long-Term Growth – "Twitter has enjoyed a nice ride over the last few months, but it will not be able to sustain its meteoric rise without establishing a higher level [...]
When Guardian Media Group’s MEN Media announced last month that it was cutting a load of jobs at the Manchester Evening News and closing several local newspaper offices, there was a feeling from the NUJ and some staff that one of the reasons for the severity of the cuts was to protect Channel M. As [...]
A selection of my latest bookmarks. You could visit my Tumblelog for more stuff I’ve seen on the web.
Battleship Island – Japan’s rotting metropolis – Great article and pics
Guardian: Billy Corgan charges Smashing Pumpkins fans to access his video blog – Subscribers get 12 weeks of access witn 25 minutes of "updates" posted each week. [...]
I keep reading that the new 50% income tax rate unveiled in the Budget on Wednesday is going to lead to a “brain drain” of which we should all be dreadfully afraid. Apparently, all the clever people who earn more than £150,000 a year are threatening to leave the country, with catastrophic consequences.
The Telegraph reports [...]
A selection of my latest bookmarks. You could visit my Tumblelog for more stuff I’ve seen on the web.
Video: Hilaire Bollock – BBC regional presenter makes testicle goof.
Media Guardian: MEN Media and NUJ settle dispute – Strike ballot called off. Less redundancies than originally planned but local offices will still shut.
Radio 4 Today: 13/04/2009 (iPlayer [...]
Since there are loads of helpful social media evangelists out there providing handy hints about what to do in order to get the most out of social networking, I thought I’d buck the trend with my own unhelpful selection of the thirteeen (deliberately Web 2.0-ish random number) things people do on Twitter and Facebook that [...]
A selection of my latest bookmarks. You could visit my Tumblelog for more stuff I’ve seen on the web.
Journalism.co.uk: The social effects of disappearing regional newspapers "That loss is something people won't necessarily be fighting for because they don't know they're losing it. We as journalists – that's our job – it's for us to [...]
I’ve got a question. How is it that people who are expressly employed to advise very senior politicians on “political” matters haven’t got the gumption to realise that by typing offensive words into an e-mail, there’s a risk that those words might be made public?
Damian McBride, a “special adviser” to the Prime Minister has been [...]
A selection of my latest bookmarks. You could visit my Tumblelog for more stuff I’ve seen on the web.
Nik Hewitt: Can local newspapers still win at digital? – “Digital is where we should be driving traffic, where we can provide the excellent journalistic content we have in abundance to a targeted online audience.”
Malcolm Coles: Do [...]
If you're looking for something specific then give the search form below a try:
