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LeWeb: Ben Huh on why old media can't do new formats

When Ben Huh founded his company – he bought a bunch of cat photos. Yes, he acquired I Can Has Cheezburger? He created the company, bought the website and closed funding

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copyright

YouTube celebs: the consumer mags of the future?

A music label is suing YouTube star Michelle Phan for using its music: The label and its publishing arm claim she has used about 50 of their songs without permission in her YouTube videos and on her own website. She disputes this, claiming that

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new media

Press Gazette's double standards

Noted in an otherwise positive story about Matt Hill crowdfunding a rebooted Media Talk podcast: Asked by Press Gazette last month whether The Guardian’s decision to axe Media Talk was an indication that podcasts have had their day, Hill said: “Actually I think

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Brighton

Brighton's digerati: understanding the media continuum

It was lovely to see the Brighton digital sector highlighted in The Observer a week ago. With all the fuss about Tech City, interesting online stuff happening elsewhere is all-too-often forgotten. But what was really nice was to see the pleasure with which the

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B2B

The New Media Survival Guide for Journalists

A quick book recommendation for you. [John Bethune](http://www.b2bmemes.com/) has recently published his New-Media Survival Guide for Journalists. It’s a short, focused and useful read for any journalist still in the process of transitioning from the traditional print or online

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new media

Another (useful) media metaphor

A predictably insightful and inspiring post from Mr Mayfield: > It occurs to me that media and marketing businesses are like the master craftsmen of old. Master masons in the middle ages created cathedrals and castles of staggering scale and beauty. > When science – and especially

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new media

Media: Old, New & Social

A neat quote that encapsulates where the divide between new and social media lies: > Adriana says: “I divide between old and new media on the one hand and social media on the other hand. New media is just digitalised old media. Social media are

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bloggers

It's Change Or Die Time For Media Companies

When publishers first went online, and when new online publishers set up, they basically recreated magazines and newspapers online – they didn’t create anything that was fundementally tailored to the new medium. In fact, it’s much like the early days of the printing

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journalism

NUJ Multimedia Working Report Out, Union Still Clueless on Blogging

The NUJ’s Shaping the Future report on multi-media working is out this morning. Martin Stabe has some intial thoughts about it over on the Press Gazette blog. The NUJ has publishing a story on its new-look website, predictably attacking bosses. I’ve downloaded

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elections

The Wikipedia Hustings

The battle for the next general election is already being fought – on Wikipedia: Dawn Butler (Lab – Brent South) and Sarah Teather (LD – Brent East) will be fighting it out for the re-drawn seat of Brent Central at the next election, but online the battle

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1980s cartoons

I'm Smurfing New Smurf Media!

Winning at New Media with 1980s cartoon heroes. Brilliant. (But I’m a little concerned at how much Dan knows about My Little Pony.)