Monthly Archives: June 2009

For the beneft of the two Martins, Moore and Belam. ‘Collaborative Individualism in The Digital Age’ OK, it’s not three words…

In many ways the half-baked musings that follow are the fault of the two Martins, Moore and Belam.
The former has very kindly asked me to contribute at his forthcoming NewsInnovation gig in London on July 10… http://barcamp.org/newsinnovationlondon; all of which demanded I think of both a subject matter and a pithy title.
And as the latter [...]

Mr Murdoch was right, the fast will beat the slow. But for me, there’s another race that’s there to be won – where the open beat the closed.

For all-too obvious reasons it seemed a mite remiss to let this pass without some sort of longer comment.
As easy as it is these days to hope that a couple of well-placed tweets complete with a six-word quote will suffice… That said, twas the power of Twitter that led me to said piece. So thanks [...]

Claire Enders. I have a wax work model of you in my hand; I’m sticking in hot pins as we speak… when I’m not washing cars, that is…

It would be nice to think that certain people – when asked to appear before a House Of Commons select committee on the future of local media – arrived knowing what they were talking about.
Claire Enders is clearly not one of them.
She hasn’t done her homework.
http://www.paidcontent.co.uk/entry/419-dcms-select-cttee-hearing-draft/
Now, some of what she says is clearly very true. [...]

We can either stop the clock at c1996 or we can embrace the future… a future that puts local planning applications into the palm of my hand.

As both regular readers of this blog will know, the whereabouts of this nation’s local planning applications has long been a subject dear to OutWithABang’s heart.
There were, for example, 17 million plus reasons why the Newspaper Society might be wary of any in-coming Tory administration…
http://outwithabang.rickwaghorn.co.uk/?p=60
… whilst come this spring and the Newspaper Society were again [...]

The only people who will save journalism are journalists themselves; this nation’s politicians are too busy saving their own skins to worry about ours…

This is a path that we’ve trod before… the trick, for me at least, is to sense the tone…
http://www.journalism.co.uk/2/articles/534752.php
“What the problem needs above all is some innovative, quick thinking on behalf of government,” were the words of Bob Satchwell, of the Society Of Editors. His impatience, you suspect, not helped by the game of musical [...]

My ‘Valley’ is the Waveney – not the one with the tinkling piano and the ‘Start-Up Whisperer’ That said, however, I think we’re singing the same tune…

There are many reason why I enjoyed this…
http://garrysub.posterous.com/chris-sacca-on-silicon-valley-innovation-in-t
Not least for the revelation by the interviewer Kara Swisher that her chat with ’start-up whisperer’ Chris Sacca was held in San Francisco’s Zuni restaurant where a lovely piano player ‘tinkled in the background…’
http://kara.allthingsd.com/20090504/silicon-valley-start-up-whisperer-and-twitter-investor-natch-sacca-speaks/
Me, Ian and Neil tend to put our little world to rights in The Artichoke [...]

Our Anthony always foretold of an explosion in content creation at the expense of the ‘closed shops’ of old. Tonight, there’s another big bang going off…

I don’t really know the guy from Adam, other than he seems from his profile to be a smart guy.
His name is Aral – or rather, @Aral – and tonight he could be found waxing lyrical about the launch of the new Apple iPhone 3GS… in a lot less than 140 characters as his excitement [...]

A swift reading of Mr Mutter and his ViewPass scheme makes for valuable reading. The big trick will be to get ‘The Families’ to act in a uniform manner when ’silo’ is their default.

For many an obvious reason – not least the fact that we now have Berkeley in common – this was well worth a ponder… the original article, just as much as the comments.
http://newsosaur.blogspot.com/2009/06/what-i-recommended-to-publishers-in.html#comments
And as in the case of the lad from DoubleVerify, I’m loathe to stray too far into the technicalities of it all; I’m [...]

Here comes DoubleVerify with a smart little tool to check where your ad is going. Either that or you simply place the ad yourself…

For someone who has spent the last few days trying to get more than a little toe through the door of some interesting boys [and girls...?] in SF, this was interesting…
http://www.adexchanger.com/ad-exchange-news/up-to-80-of-campaign-impressions-delivered-incorrectly-says-doubleverify-ceo-netzer/
There is – perhaps – an element of he-would-say-that-wouldn’t-he to the headline; that up to 80% of campaign impressions are incorrectly delivered – a block [...]

A tale for our troubled times. Of Write ‘em Cowboy, Jack Of Diamonds and King Canute calling for a towel…

First things first. I know very little about Denver.
Never been.
I do, however, know that it used to have two daily newspapers.
Now it has only one. The Denver Post. ‘The Rocky’ went to meet its maker a few months back.
http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_11791798
Left as the only show in town, the Post’s owners – MediaNews Group – this week announced [...]

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