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• 10.22.08
  Courtesy of Ms Bell, a new phrase for our frightening times. ‘The Age of Participation’ – ie, can we join your conversation please..? General, Journalism | (1)

  Over the last couple of years, there have been one or two bits and pieces that I've read which stand out. Thoughts and words that, in my own mind at least, I re-visit on a fairly regular basis. Clay Shirky's parallel between the music industry and the forthcoming fate of the printed newspaper is clearly one example; I think Anthony Lilley's tome for OfCom is another. To both I would now add Emily Bell's lecture to POLIS the other evening; the same Charlie Beckett think-tank at which, many moons ago, I discovered that I was 'two-inches wide and a mile deep... ' ...

  Tagged: Age of Participation, conversation, Eastern Daily Press, Emily Bell, POLIS
  
• 08.19.08
  All credit to TrinityMirror; they said they would roll-out Banter… and here they come. Now to tackle the geography question… General, Journalism, MFW | (0)

  Given that we're all trying to fight the good fight out here in the digital wilderness - and as such the mood seems to be one of being eachother's 'critical friend' - it is interesting, and wholly commendable, to see TrinityMirror holding true to their promise of rolling out their ****banter.co.uk 'brand'. We've mentioned it before; it does - clearly - follow someone else's lead in offering premium quality local football content that endeavours to be both deadline-free and geography-lite... http://outwithabang.rickwaghorn.co.uk/?p=80 So, sure enough, to coincide with the start of the new Premiership season, here's comes www.newcastlebanter.co.uk www.sunderlandbanter.co.uk and, indeed, www.birminghambanter.co.uk Each proves true ...

  Tagged: Banter, Daily Mirror, East Anglian Daily Times, Eastern Daily Press, TrinityMirror
  
• 08.18.08
  If you want to see how scarce traditional media is becoming, park yourself in a Carrow Road Press box this season – or in Berlin this autumn General, Journalism, MFW | (1)

  Apologies. For those of you who aren't big fans of the Football League Championship, what follows may be of scant interest. It may, however, be worth hanging in there - if only for an insight into just how scarce traditional media is becoming. As we've long maintained, that - in theory - is where the value remains; where media is scarce; beyond the 'gatekeeper'; to those places where not 'everybody' of Clay Shirky's fame can get to. http://outwithabang.rickwaghorn.co.uk/?p=53 This Saturday and it was Norwich's first home game of the new season. They haven't, in fairness, been pulling up too many trees of late; they are ...

  Tagged: Berlin, Blackpool Gazette, Daily Telegraph, Eastern Daily Press, Frontline Club, Lancashire Evening Post, MyFootballWriter, Norwich Evening News, The Guardian
  

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