Tag Archives: Digital Britain

How do we join the dots in a Digital Britain? How do we find a little pot of hyper-local revenue gold from that data mine that is the doctors surgery…?

1 July 2009 – 5:53 pm

Living next door to a newsagents does, occasionally, have its advantages.
Stumbling to get a couple of pints of milk first thing in the morning, you do see what’s on the billboard… what news was ‘breaking’ some 12 hours ago.
And in the case of this morning’s Eastern Daily Press, it was ‘news’ that Norfolk – and [...]

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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…

14 June 2009 – 10:11 pm

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 [...]

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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.

7 June 2009 – 11:57 am

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 [...]

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Big government sees big media as the only people with a ‘credible’ answer to their PSB needs. Well, that’s the future in safe hands then…

18 February 2009 – 12:35 pm

We’ve kind of touched on this before; or rather Ms Kiss did… that in amidst all the hand-wringing and quizzical ‘Er, what next…?’ looks that accompanied Lord Carter’s first stab at a vision for ‘Digital Britain’, there was barely a mention for anyone on the independent start-up scene.
Us VIPs, weren’t even a blip on their [...]

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Dear OFT, What we’d love to do is build some bigger silos. No objections, eh? Lots of love, The Newspaper Society

14 February 2009 – 11:05 am

Tis now an AOL fault, apparently. They’ve got a recorded message on their helpline admitting as much. Personally, as big a fan of Loddon’s conservation area as I am, I’d not have any objections to a 3G digital phone mast being discretely slapped on top of the 16th Century church tower…
Here we go. Again.
The Newspaper [...]

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Try as Lord Carter might, perhaps the problem was he just couldn’t get how newspapers might fit into a Digital Britain…

2 February 2009 – 8:18 pm

Yesterday we posed a question as to whether this forest fire of our worst imaginings was actually raging with such an intensity that it could all be over before Lord Carter has barely begun…
http://outwithabang.rickwaghorn.co.uk/?p=235
The comment that follows is well worth a read; the analogy is wonderful as it is pointed from NC…
‘I see the newspaper [...]

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What if this forest fire is raging with such a ferocity that the next time Lord Carter blinks, the Sheffield Star is gone?

1 February 2009 – 4:43 pm

There were a couple of pieces that rolled into one, bigger thought over the weekend; that and a big, warm, over-due welcome for the first honorary bird on our blogroll, Jemima Kiss…
… who banged a couple of large nails on the head on the back of Lord Carter’s first draft of his ‘Digital Britain’ thing [...]

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