12 February 2010 – 5:44 pm
It’s been a while; been ‘on the road’ of late… jobs to do, people to see, family to bury…
All of which means that I’ve missed much of the ‘buzz’ that accompanied Google’s latest concoction; stepping onto the social media toes of both FaceBook and Twitter. Or not, as the case may be.
I have to be [...]
30 November 2009 – 9:33 pm
As one or two of you might know, we have developed something of an interest of late in events in Northumberland.
There is, after all, a chance that the initial contours of the UK’s new media landscape might be drawn out in the rolling vales beneath Hadrian’s Wall…
http://outwithabang.rickwaghorn.co.uk/?p=331
Today and Johnston Press boldly went where few weekly [...]
26 November 2009 – 11:46 pm
Whether by accident or design, the North-East of England is a very interesting place to be now media-wise.
That particular penny has taken a little while to drop, but events of the last 36 hours have only strengthened my feeling that over the course of the next 6-9 months, Newcastle, Sunderland and the great English-Scottish borderlands [...]
14 October 2009 – 11:01 am
It’s been a while. Apologies. Had jobs to do; people to see.
Suffice to say that last week was ‘one for the album’; but for the likes of ‘Mr Darcy’, AJ, Yvonne, Jas and everyone else on the ITU Dept at the N&N the Old Dear wouldn’t be propping herself up in bed this morning, reading [...]
22 September 2009 – 5:28 pm
As news emerged today that three more weekly titles were off to meet their maker…
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/sep/22/trinity-mirror-weekly-closures
.. it was re-assuring to discover that OfCom were there to be found with their finger precisely on the beating pulse of this regional media nation of ours…
This is a particularly fascinating and insightful document… one to be pondered at length [...]
20 September 2009 – 11:39 pm
It is a block that we walked around many moons ago…
http://outwithabang.rickwaghorn.co.uk/?p=100
And in the 15 months since, my knowledge of all things SEO hasn’t improved. I remain pretty wedded to this notion that if the content is good enough, your community will find you; you’ll find a place around their campfire provided you add something of [...]
8 September 2009 – 11:45 am
I transcribe this only for the hard of time…
But, natch, for those with more time than most on their hands, we link…
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/organgrinder/audio/2009/sep/07/media-talk-usa-podcast-hyperlocal-journalism
The fact that one of Jeff Jarvis’ guests is Debra Galant ‘the Queen of Hyper-local’ via her www.baristanet.com site sparked an interest; as, of course, did the subject matter – whether ultra-local might prove [...]