13 January 2010 – 7:57 pm
It is not exactly rocket science to figure that we might have an interest in all things North-East this spring.
As has been muttered before in these parts, there is much to keep an eye on in and around the valleys of Tyne, Tees and Wear.
The arrival of the impressive-looking http://www.hohound.co.uk/ over the forthcoming days merely [...]
Keen observers of this particular blog – and we use the plural cautiously – may have noted a subtle change of late.
We now boast a banner ad. Gone are the five Addiply text boxes that used to adorn the top of this page; never one to practice what he preaches, I’d been a bit tardy [...]
This was interesting; kind of made me wish I’d made more of an effort to hook up with Paul Carr before Christmas…
http://www.techcrunch.com/2010/01/04/nsfw-apple-tablet-kindle-and-furbies-oh-my/
As was this; from the ever-illuminating Mark Potts…
http://recoveringjournalist.typepad.com/recovering_journalist/2010/01/apples-tabula-rasa.html
Both men are clearly singing off the say hymn-sheet… Or rather, tablet. Of slate, apparently.
Why both posts appealed isn’t too hard to fathom; particularly if we return [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Having been round one or two of these blocks before, it’s always been interesting to see which of the large provincial newspaper groups would be the first to ‘break ranks…’ and quietly forget the gentlemen’s agreements upon which their industrial fortunes were based…
http://outwithabang.rickwaghorn.co.uk/?p=257
And today, there’s a little sign that Northcliffe/DMGT are starting to get itchy [...]