Monthly Archives: April 2008

A first and proper introduction to addiply.com. A DIY classified ads dept for your hyper-local publisher and advertiser alike…

Apologies for dropping off the radar; had some big and important farewells to do.
Anyway, addiply.com.
Given our numbers – and our clientele – this is probably not the best place to go fishing for advertising. As we like to be pretty open about these things, with an average daily readership of c60 people and the page [...]

You made it… welcome to our new home. And welcome to addiply.com. Time to earn some cash…

We will explain all about www.addiply.com very soon, but it’s a Friday night and I’ve got a dinner date with Paul Merson.
Me and 250 other Norfolk folk; alas, it’s not the small table in the corner for me and Mers.
Anyway, here we go – a JavaScript friendly zone. Now we can start to have some [...]

You either go one of two ways – global or hyper-local. And there’s nothing in-between. Just ask the people of Belper…

There are many a theme that we seem to stumble across and these two pieces return to one of the more familiar – a digital landscape that, to my mind, will be defined by two compelling forces, local-stroke-hyper-local and national-stroke-global.
Here’s G-Cap Media shifting their radio tents every more into the latter camp… http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/apr/24/gcapmedia.radio
… and from [...]

And the good news is…. Ah, there is no good news… Just the same old news…

http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/greenslade/2008/04/regional_groups_suffer_shares.html
See below.
Who knows, perhaps the nominal share value of all concerned hits such a low that some character wades in and hoovers up the lot… where is Guy Hands when you need him?

OK, to get this newsprint quart into this web pint pot, how many pint pots is it actually going to take?

There was many a line in this that caught my eye; most of which can be saved for another day.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/apr/23/bbc.pressandpublishing
It was Myners’ line right at the end, however, that maybe deserves some thought – the bit where he suggests that, when it comes to the regional press “there will be continuing pressure for consolidation of [...]

If I want that regular access to a near-private conversation I have to get beyond the gate-keeper. And not everybody can do that…

It’s funny how you start to view your own daily, professional life through the eyes of this blog.
That, every now and again, a penny that’s dropped in theory, drops in practice. It did so again this afternoon in the unlikely surroundings of Archbishop Sancroft High School in Harleston. Why any of us were there in [...]

So do politics and football really mix? Better ask Ed and Charles…

I know we said OutWithABang wasn’t going to be about football. But, heh, my blog, my rules…
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2008/apr/21/labour.edballs
Question: What do Charles Clarke and Ed Balls have in common?
Answer: Both are passionate Norwich City fans.
Correction: What is the only thing Charles Clarke and Ed Balls have in common…

And, finally, someone at Auntie wakes up to the real story of the day… From first with the audio to last with the words.

See below, but here’s their problem… first with the audio, last with the words…
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/n/norwich/7358178.stm
For if the time-line is correct, Auntie had the interview for 36-hours before someone, somewhere spotted the story and wrote from what looks like a London, national perspective…
Advantage lost.

The challenge for us all is to get the drive-by to park up. Time needs to be on our side…

This I found interesting – if only for the fact that it touched on a conversation I had with one of the good gentlemen listed to your right. Well, on the home page right. Anyway….
Time.
http://newsosaur.blogspot.com/2008/04/drive-by-surfers-peril-news-sites.html
I mentioned time at JEECamp the other month as one of those straws that I cling to; the fact that our [...]

What one radio interview with my pal Hucks can teach us about the ways of this local digital world.

Apologies first. For those of you with an interest in neither Norwich City Football Club nor Championship football, what follows may appear all-too parochial to be of any relevance to a new media blog.
All I can do is beg that you stay with it for there are far wider points to be made – lessons [...]

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