Monthly Archives: August 2009

One final postscript to the BBC and the House of the Written Word; linking to ‘our’ video content might open another can of worms…

30 August 2009 – 11:11 pm

As Murdoch Jnr’s speech appears to be flavour of the month web-wise this weekend, I thought I might just add a little side-bar to yesterday’s post…
http://outwithabang.rickwaghorn.co.uk/?p=317
… about the so-called ‘link economy’ on whose foundations we all, somehow, hope to rest.
As mentioned before, I don’t do video. I am strictly a house of the written word. [...]

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It’s when the BBC morphs itself into a Factory of the Written Word.. that’s when Murdoch Jnr hits a large nail on the head.

29 August 2009 – 2:54 pm

As you watch the tide of indignation that threatens to wash over the Murdoch clan this weekend, I can’t help feeling a touch of sympathy for James Murdoch.
Because in certain aspects, he is right. And some of what he is saying is long over-due.
And, I think, the danger is that we can get too carried [...]

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What do Write Em Cowboy, Jack Of Diamonds, Colin Tattum, Chris Lepkowski, Chris Lakey, Dave Prentice, et al all have in common? The right to earn a living from their passionate, niche labours.

25 August 2009 – 3:08 pm

This took us down a familiar path…
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/greenslade/2009/aug/25/charging-for-content
As, in fairness, did the original…
http://www.allmediascotland.com/spike/4493/24082009/Brian_McNair_Writes_About_Charging_for_Journalism
It’s all interesting stuff; and coming at a highly-charged time, too, as Rupert Murdoch leads the head-long charge towards building walled garden after walled garden around his content and TrinityMirror swallow hard and contemplate taking The Birmingham Post to a weekly and the Mail [...]

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When a windfall is, indeed, a windfall. And when a ‘windfall’ is no more than Big Media talking big again…

16 August 2009 – 8:49 pm

For reasons that ought to need little or no explanation, this caught my eye last week…
http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/138/get-me-rewrite-hyperlocals-lost.html
It also caught the eye of (hopefully) a good pal across the water; Tracy Record of www.WestSeattleBlog.com fame.
http://outwithabang.rickwaghorn.co.uk/?p=252
What was interesting – perhaps, even telling – was that having trod the same rocky path over the last few years, we both [...]

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Whilst we all fiddle and wait for the BBC to recognise that a link economy is a two-way street, so Rome and all its media works continue to burn…

4 August 2009 – 4:57 pm

In amidst the general pantomime of my life, consciously or not this blog has ended up taking something of a back-seat over the last two weeks.
In part, there’s a lot going on. Tis the start of a new football season for www.myfootballwriter.com/norwichcity and www.addiply.com continues to take us all on some interesting, if time-consuming paths.
But [...]

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