Tis only Thursday; so Tuesday’s gathering of the great and the media good – and me – in Committee Room 14 of the House of Commons is still relatively fresh in the mind.
Given it was all conducted on Chatham House rules and given my knowledge of licence fee slicing and switch-over surplusses is sketchy at [...]
Apologies if the analogy proves over-stretched.
Whilst there might be a forest fire of our worst imaginings raging all about us right now in old media land, it bears no comparison to events elsewhere in the world – notably, in this case, the conflicts that continue to engulf the countries of Iraq and Afghanistan.
And apologies if [...]
For a fair while now, I’ve kind of worked on the basis that this web world of ours will go one of two ways… you’ll either be hyper-national a la The Telegraph, The Guardian, et al…
… or you’ll be hyper-local. A la Linda at www.darwenreporter.com And James at www.towcesternews.co.uk
And there won’t be too much left [...]
Mr Greenslade wrote an interesting post the other day – and all on a subject painfully dear to our hearts.
Who is ever going to fund hyper-local news projects in this country…
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/greenslade/2009/apr/14/digital-media-local-newspapers
These days I can give you a list as long as your arm of those who won’t… For certain people charged with, quote, ‘making innovation [...]
For now, just a short post.
Weeds, more weeds and a late Easter Sunday lunch with the Old Dear await.
But sometimes, a thought and a coincidence strike together – and there is a need to put finger-tip to keyboard.
This is from C Shirky. It is from the piece that I read on my 40th birthday; January [...]
One of the bigger tragedies of any impending break-up of Press Gazette would be a loss of Peter Kirwan’s Media Money column.
For me – ever since we first hooked up at a UCLAN speaking gig and in the hotel bar thereafter – he has been something of a shining light; a regular hook upon which [...]
It was this headline on BuzzMachine that got me a-thinking; that our Arianna was about to ’save’ journalism…
http://www.buzzmachine.com/2009/04/06/arianna-huffington-saves-journalism/
It is an interesting piece in the sense that it chimes well with the current debate about ‘not-for-profit’ business models; that, perhaps, the future of decent journalism might – for now – have to rest with the generosity [...]
There were a couple of Google bits and bobs that caught my eye today.
Both, for me, touch on an increasingly familiar theme.
Big.
Just how big would any Google-Twitter tie-up be?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/pda/2009/apr/03/twitter-google
And then something of a developing backlash about the search giant poking its big nose down my street… in an ‘unmarked black Opel… with a 360 degree [...]