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04.03.11The flight of Ms Armstrong from Fortress Wapping makes for interesting reading; maybe the numbers simply didn’t stack for ‘Brand Lisa’ to hang around…I've kind of refrained from entering the whole pay-wall debate. To speculate as to what might just be going on behind the walls of Fortress Wapping. But with the NYT clearly intent on pursuing their strategy, The Times long since locked up behind their's and The Guardian trying to work out what might just work for them given their heart now seems set on conquering America, I read this piece with interest. http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/greenslade/2011/apr/02/dailytelegraph-fashion Not, I hasten to add, because I know any of the characters involved. But something just struck me as I pondered why Ms Armstrong might wish to up-sticks. I think the comment ...
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04.08.08Swallow hard, folks. If I read this baby right, we haven’t seen anything yet. Have you met ‘The Grid’?I guess the accompanying headline should run along the lines of: 'If you think we're screwed now...' Or some kind of suggestion that the fun might only have just begun; that our friend - and some clearly still see it as our 'enemy' - The Internet is but a little baby to one, awesome kick-ass mother that lies just around the corner. Bit like 'Aliens' I guess. That if the hapless Ripley had her hands full with one of them, just wait till you get to meet Mum... and, boy, is she mad. Only this time she's buried not beneath some atmposphere ...
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04.01.08A taxi to The Telegraph please… and just drop me outside the front door, no need to come in.I knew there was something else. Something else that had niggled away all day. This. http://www.currybet.net/cbet_blog/2008/03/google_hijacks_newspaper_search.php That's brilliant. Top spot. Or if not spotted, then illustrated. And while we're handing out medals, I stumbled across it on Martin Stabe's blog. What the newspapers concerned do next will be fascinating to watch. Cos I'd show Google the door... Don't get me wrong, Google is the biggest and best taxi service in this web-world; they get me from A to B in an instant. But being an oh-so 'umble news provider, I've never quite got the best out of the other string to their mighty bow, advertising. There ...
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- I have now watched Ms Gallop perform on video. And what do we want to achieve for the people of Loddon? The same as she does; for advertising to be a force for good…
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- Nothing works, but everything might – who knows where Power Technology Inc will take us? But the future remains local. Ask the Murdochs and the Reeves.
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- Time to shed a little more light into the darkening gloom of Local TV; time for the Ranters and the Ravers to gather again at #1000flowers…
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- Ashley offers the hope of calmer waters come the end of 2014. Really? I see some very dark clouds looming in the Sky ahead…
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