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• 09.30.08
  Nothing more for us to add. It’s Craig’s baby now. Misc | (0)

  Here we go, Craig's 'pitch' to his potential advertisers... http://www.thisfrenchlife.com/thisfrenchlife/2008/09/new-advertising.html His words, not mine. Just as that opportunity to regulate, source, promote and monetise his own self-published site is now his too...

  Tagged: addiply.com, ThisFrenchLife
  
• 09.29.08
  Here we go… Our little baby Addiply suddenly comes of age. Fancy a holiday in Perigord anyone? Advertising, General | (1)

  If this blog could just do a little audio, what you're now reading would be a drum roll... that and another big thanks to our Ian who has been fiddling underneath the old www.Addiply.com bonnet this weekend to get our little local/niche advertsing network baby up to the stage where.... ... OWAB's long-time pal Craig McGinty can roll it out on his website... www.thisfrenchlife.com. Craig did us a favour last week by guinea-pigging advertising via Addiply here on OutWithABang; now he's switched sides and become our first publisher to arm himself with his own self-service advertising system. And it will be fascinating to ...

  Tagged: addiply.com, Landscapejuice.com, ThisFrenchLife
  
• 09.26.08
  At last, a VC asking our kind of questions… to which, one of these days, we hope to offer some of the answers General, Journalism | (0)

  I stumbled accross Paul Fisher's blog for reasons that shouldn't take too much working out; he's a VC in a field into which our thoughts on Addiply seeks to stumble... They - AdventVentures; http://www.adventventures.com/ - are also the cash behind Qype, who - if memory serves - were floating around at www.2gether08.com this summer. Anyway, given he asked the question re the Southampton Echo and Qype, I kind of figured that it warranted an answer - or at least, our thoughts here on MFW/MLW as to an answer. Geography. http://www.thecoffeeshopsofmayfair.com/2008/06/on-qype-the-southampton-echo-a-dodgy-swimming-pool-or-regional-newspapers-business-models-and-qype.html And while none of us can yet claim to have the answer, the most heartening ...

  Tagged: AdventVentures, Qype, Southampton Echo
  
• 09.25.08
  What have OfCom and backpackdave08 got in common? Everything – if you allow Mr Lilley to wave his Magic Lantern into the gathering gloom… General, Journalism | (2)

  Having a vague knowledge of OfCom's latest review of the future of Public Service Broadcasting, this was always going to make for interesting reading... http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/sep/25/itv.ofcom Even if the numbers are slightly eye-watering, there was a very real sense that this was in the wind. Like everyone else, ITV can't make the numbers add up. Their world - our world - is all but disintegrating. The game's up; the show's over. At least as far as Anglia (East) and Anglia (West) are concerned. For the people of Norwich, here comes the news from your region. 'A man from Milton Keynes was today bailed to ...

  Tagged: Anthony Lilley, backpackdave08, ITV, Magic Lantern, NUJ, OfCom
  
• 09.25.08
  According to the American Journalism Review, the story of Brian P. Tierney and the purchase of the Philly Inquirer would make a Hollywood movie. A horror movie if you’re RBS… General, Journalism | (1)

  Alan Mutter is another one of OWAB's heroes; his 'Reflections of a Newsosaur' blog is up there with the best of them. And as I read through his latest thoughts on the truly alarming state of the US newspaper industry, there was one little line that stood out. By quite some way. Particularly given the context. http://newsosaur.blogspot.com/ Scroll down and the point in question is in his thoughts on bankruptcy; in particular where next for Philly Media... Clearly I know next to nothing about US bankruptcy laws and, in particular, what a 'Chapter 11' ruling might actually mean. It is, however, something that shareholders ...

  Tagged: Alan Mutter, McClatchey, Philadelphia Inquirer, Royal Bank of Scotland
  
• 09.22.08
  ‘Excuse me, but I don’t suppose you know whether the chief exec’s in today..?’ General | (0)

  I've long fallen out of touch with the internal politics at Archant Towers; I do, however, have a vague memory of the lay-out of the building. As in Archant Group HeadQuarters occupies the top floor of the building - the bit with the wall-to-wall carpets and the posh pot plants; advertising and editorial are on the floor below. http://business.edp24.co.uk/content/news/story.aspx?brand=BIZOnline&category=Business&tBrand=BIZOnline&tCategory=Business&itemid=NOED22%20Sep%202008%2011%3A41%3A57%3A893 So I may well be missing something here; after all there are deadlines to be met, pages to be filled, etc, etc... But rather than reporting the suggestion elsewhere that your chief executive is about to go missing, why doesn't anyone wander up the stairs ...

  Tagged: Archant
  
• 09.20.08
  Here we go, let’s open the doors to our very own VIP club and see just who stumbles in off those mean streets… General, Journalism | (3)

  The idea of a 'VIP' club made its first appearance the other night; on the back of a comment left by James of Addiply ad and Towcester local news site fame... that and a few beers post an IPC gathering at the Tate. http://outwithabang.rickwaghorn.co.uk/?p=138 Scroll down to the comments; you got it... VIP. Very Independent Publishers. It may very well prove one of those blog moments that you do in haste and regret with a passion at your leisure. But as Will rightly pointed out, it would be nice if something ever came of it... which would be a first for us this summer. OK. ...

  Tagged: 4iP, Clay Shirky, OfCom, VIP
  
• 09.19.08
  On local, on link and on the future of newspapers… three big and familiar nails that Mark Potts bangs firmly on the head. Superb. Journalism, MFW | (0)

  I've always been a fan; and remain so. He might have once-upon-a-time 'run out of track...' but, boy, does he know where the world is going. He remains firmly on the right track. So, if I was being lazy, I would do nothing more than commend each and everyone of you to read the following three posts from Mr Mark Potts... and then insert the UK landscape into the imploding world he's observing across the Pond. How his thoughts tally with what we're trying to practically achieve via MyFootballWriter and, ideally, sometime in the dim and distant future MyLocalWriter, I'll leave for a ...

  Tagged: Jeff Jarvis, Johnston Press, Mark Potts, MyFootballWriter, NUJ, Peter Kirwan, TrinityMirror
  
• 09.15.08
  That first ad was my sister-in-law; she was asked… that second ad, however, was an act of someone else’s will. They placed that ad themselves. And that’s the stroke of genius. A DIY ad model in action… Advertising, General, MLW | (3)

  Ha-ha.... there we go. There we go.... How long it has been there, I've no idea. I've been running around a little of late; me and Neil have had our heads down underneath the MyFootballWriter bonnet for a few days - tinkering with this and that. More on which later. But anyway, whilst I've been away something slightly unusual has happened. We have a second advert. On Addiply. Lift your gaze a few inches and there it is. Next to the one my sister-in-law took out - with a little nudge and a wink - for her Pilates class in Fakenham... http://outwithabang.rickwaghorn.co.uk/?p=68 Our self-service, DIY, niche/local ...

  Tagged: AboutMyArea, Addiply, Johnston Press, MyLocalWriter, Pilates, Towcester
  
• 09.09.08
  Time and again we return to geography; that and the challenging times we all face General, Journalism | (1)

  It was interesting to read on the back of Saturday's post... http://outwithabang.rickwaghorn.co.uk/?p=135 ... a line in Stephen Brook's piece today re the latest axe to be applied to Trinity's stable of weekly titles; this time in North Wales and the North-West... http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/sep/09/trinitymirror.downturn In particular, this bit... "A source said the company would have to invest £30m in new presses in Liverpool, but by transferring printing to Oldham it would spend £7.5m on an upgrade.... Which then tied in with this line re Archant's impending dilemma with their Suffolk operation; at what point do you decide that, in the current climate, it's an upgrade too far... and ...

  Tagged: Archant, Oldham, TrinityMirror
  

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