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A collection of 17 posts
Tech today in one sentence
Russell Davies: We’re in that phase with a bunch of technologies where corporations don’t know if things make them look cool or evil. Case in point.…
Blogger blackmail or blagger blunder?
Today in “things that depress me”: One of the biggest points being made on Twitter is that bloggers don’t get stuff for free, but are working for their reviews. I wholeheartedly agree. There is nothing wrong with a blogger…
The "placed" story and other failures of journalism
Sarah Lacy is outraged by PR behaviour: A company pivoted (read: failed) and decided it wanted some positive press. So it paid someone to write a story. Not a press release or a guest post, an actual fake news story,…
Traditional journalism will 'blow away on the winds of the internet'
Philip Trippenbach: Make no mistake: traditional, platform-based journalism is being crushed, and its dust will blow away on the winds of the internet. I know this is a melodramatic way to put it, but it’s an important point to…