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06.22.09Mr Murdoch was right, the fast will beat the slow. But for me, there’s another race that’s there to be won – where the open beat the closed.For all-too obvious reasons it seemed a mite remiss to let this pass without some sort of longer comment. As easy as it is these days to hope that a couple of well-placed tweets complete with a six-word quote will suffice... That said, twas the power of Twitter that led me to said piece. So thanks to @MSuster for the heads up... http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/adsense_the_weak_elephant_in_the_room.php For me, what's interesting is not so much the general thrust of the main body of the piece rather the comments that then follow. Some, you suspect are from those that may have built a business and a living on teaching ...
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03.18.09Given the eye-brows that MyJobScotland raised north of the border you can only wonder what the LMA will make of Mr Watson’s new baby…Given that it was @tom_watson who asked the question this morning as to what anyone thought about the Civil Service's new, beta Jobs Search site, I kind of think he merits answer. After all, it's a block we've been round before north of the border... http://outwithabang.rickwaghorn.co.uk/?p=184 Because this... http://beta.civilservice.gov.uk/jobs/Job-search-results.aspx?r=North+West&pageNum=5 ... does exactly the same, me thinks, as https://www.myjobscotland.gov.uk/fe/tpl_scottishportal01.asp Only its bigger. And slicker. And as such really ought to be getting one or two bottoms a-twitching. If they're not already. Because if MyJobScotland was met with such furrowed brows in the chamber of the Scottish Parliament, then you wonder what sort of reaction Tom Watson's new, Shirky-esque ...
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01.21.09Put a pot of Government gold at the end of a postcode rainbow; that way, you can incentivise the switch to a truly ‘Digital Britain’ as you subsidise…We've trailed this before, but it was fascinating to read the arguments being trotted out this afternoon as to why the State must intervene to save our ailing provincial newspaper industry - or rather the US's ailing newspaper industry in the case of any Newsquest title... http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=1&storycode=42868&c=1 And there was Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland's finest, Ashok Kumar MP, doing his bit for TrinityMirror. "It’s clear there is a case for some sort of rescue package,” he said... Why is the case so 'clear'? Because local newspapers are the only bastions of local democracy that we can think of? What's this all about, then... ...
recent posts
- To my right, BT – splashing the cash on content; to my left, Sky with The Cloud for connection. Time we joined the connection business…
- A plea to UK hyperlocals: Don’t look back to the Age of Print; its a short-term fix only. Play with the kit boys; just as Sky find huge silver linings by owning its Cloud…
- Claire Enders offered us the word ‘ubiquitous’; Cindy Gallop talks of the need for ‘advertising for good’; who says delivering digital thinking is a man’s world?
- Alex Aiken calls on government marketeers and comms professionals to be ruthless and ‘Germanic’ in their ad spend. Here we go… to mobile. To any bus-stop.
- What did I find on the streets of Tokyo? A 500-strong army of social coders ready and waiting to build new commercial tools once Addiply’s own Open API arrives at Mashup9
- Ashley offers the hope of calmer waters come the end of 2014. Really? I see some very dark clouds looming in the Sky ahead…
- Welcome to the LumaScape and talk of a ‘dark underbelly’ and ‘ghost publishers’; welcome to another complex business model in dire need of fresh simplicity. And being human…
- The man from Google insists we need to cling to a compass; that we still need to search for our futures in local. Really? My certainty comes from a map, not an algorithm…
- TechStars Launch Patriot Boot Camp. Genius. Look no further for a new model army of authentic and trusted local ad sellers
- Northcliffe follow The Guardian’s lead and retreat out of local; just as me, Eric and the Bishop of Norwich pin our colours to all things mobile, local and social…
- Chris looks out of the window at UCLAN and seeks hyperlocal inspiration from on high. Funny that, because so do the Bishop and I…
- First and foremost, this is a thanks. After that, it is how we rebuild the UK’s media landscape via the lowest forms of editorial and advertising life. Including Barclays Bank Plc…
- Rusbridger sees The Guardian following the classic path of a pivoting start-up; I see no such thing – stickability is a word wholly lost in the temple atop of York Way
- Round the block once more with heavy heart and deepening alarm; how do you service Google, Georgia and Glyndbourne as the numbers start to crunch?
- This is a first throw only; lobbing a first stone in that sea of unrelenting green that has, thus far, been all things hyperlocal…
- Nawr yw’r amser i arbrofi, arbrofi, arbrofi. Felly dyma ni … Ewch adeiladu. (Now is the time to experiment, experiment, experiment. So here we go… Go build)
- Collaboration has always been at the heart of Addiply’s intent; meet Aframe and a meeting of minds that may yet help to yield the future of hyperlocal ‘TV’…
- Courtesy of the Technology Strategy Board, Addiply’s API will be ever more open, ever more public, ever more part of the ‘Fourth Conversation…
- Cindy Gallop heads into GMG’s ‘Changing Advertising’ Summit with a simple message: It’s bottom up, not top-down. And its collaborative, not hierachical… Ring any bells, boys?
- Fel yr addawyd, un bloc adeiladu bach i genedl y Cymry …As promised, one small building block for the nation of Wales.
- As Andrew Miller lays out a survival strategy for The Guardian newspaper, what if his biggest challenge isn’t actually being open and of the web, but is Alan?
- As DMGT seek to ‘ditch’ Northcliffe and GMG writhe on a global mess of their own making, local salvation in the UK lies with TrinityM. With One vision…
- Having escaped from the complexities of the past, can David Montgomery and his LocalWorld now figure out how to work simply in the present?
- 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…
- AirBnB go all #hyperlocal; travel becomes every more social, ever more collaborative and ever more local. And that fascinates…
- The generation of local content in a networked world was always going to be a job best shared. Ask Mr Rusbridger. Or our Ben on #21VC. Or Skatta.tv
- 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.
- Here’s a festive teaser for you all: who would you buy a local ad from? A Penny or a Sheldon? A human – or an algorithm? It is that simple.
- Putting fears aside for a moment, what are my hopes for 2013? That from the middle of March my son’s digital education won’t hang off a copper thread…
- 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…
- For whom is the digital bell starting to toll? If our futures are, indeed, tied to being more social, more local and more mobile than the rest who is winning in Leeds right now?
- The man from BIA/Kelsey sees a $5.8 billion business in mobile and local; he equally sees national brands drilling into those local spaces. Who wants to build with us?
- Let’s suggest national brand is waking up to our local world; and if the Hollister kids long ago got mobile and social, how do they now get local?
- With no EU funding, Dave and BT asks us to place our faith in a copper wire. Me? I’m placing my faith in the Bishop; that his church tower will light up my son’s rural life.
- Two more friends of the family to speak at #1000flowers; two more people who know that by building *together* we can still find an answer that works for every block…
- Alan Mutter throws a new metric into the newspaper debate – relevancy; Chris Oakley points to a ’stampede to irrelevance’. So how do the UK numbers stack?
- Question: What have Facebook and Palo Alto, Ca, got in common with Addiply and Loddon, Norfolk? We’re both gunning for a $5.8bn mobile-local ad market via free public wifi…
