Journalism
On Sunday, I should have been flying back from a conference in Portugal. Instead, I spent the day with an American friend trapped in London. We helped a German family find their way to Waterloo for a trip to the channel ports. People were marvelling at the plane-free skies, and
advertising
Let’s start with something that’s as much a public information message for the blogosphere as a link: [Why Blog and Comment Spam isn’t Going Away ](http://www.yelvington.com/content/why-blog-and-comment-spam-isnt-going-away) Onwards to linkorama:- [News has become a social experience](http://gigaom.com/2010/03/01/
Ha! Less than 24 hours after I made the comparison between Google and newsagents [http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/2009/12/the_murdochgoogle_phony_war.html] in yeterday’s post, Matt Brittin, managing director of Google UK, makes that very same point in front of a committee of MPs: >
Journalism
[http://twitpic.com/rv2gs]A few interesting follow-ups to my posts about the content Paywall debate: - Eric of Websnark explores the idea that [people adapt to what’s convenient for them](http://www.websnark.com/archives/2009/11/one_of_the_most.html) – and if you make visiting news
[http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/assets_c/2009/09/New%20Picture%20%2834%29-1414.html] That’s the thumbnail view you get in Safari, Apple’s web browser, when you open a new tab. The confluence of these two ideas suggest that, as the processing power and bandwidth develops to do
business models
And so, the Murdoch plan for content charging [http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-ct-newscorp21-2009aug21,0,5961516.story] begins to become clear: > As newspapers across the country struggle with declining readership and > advertising revenue, News Corp. executives have been meeting in recent > weeks with publishers about forming a
events
The Guardian’s published a superbly-written piece by Simon Jenkins [http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/aug/10/newpaper-internet-paywall-murdoch-live] today, that catches exactly what I think about paywalls, the state of the publishing business and our route out of this quagmire: > At present the newspaper industry is like
Journalism
A few reactions to the News International news [http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/2009/08/the_second_paid_content_experiment_begin.html] from earlier: * Shane Richmond of The Telegraph thinks that it will be a gift to the competition [http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/technology/shanerichmond/100002791/murdochs-paywall-is-a-gift-to-the-competition/] * Jeff Jarvis
community care
Missed this while I was away: Journalists vrs Social Workers: Mythology on Both Sides [http://www.communitycare.co.uk/blogs/social-work-media/2009/04/a-national-paper-journalist-speaks-back.html] Interesting example of specialist press attempting to correct the shallowness of reporting seen in the generalist press all too often. [Disclosure: Community Care is published
daily telegraph
I typed in a link from [an article in yesterday’s ](http://www.telegraph.co.uk/property/interiorsandshopping/5206815/Interiors-bargain-hunter.html) [Daily Telegraph](http://www.telegraph.co.uk/property/interiorsandshopping/5206815/Interiors-bargain-hunter.html) that my wife showed me. The above the result.Interesting to see that the national papers in
Blogging
[](https://i2.wp.com/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Livejournal-logo.png)Image via [Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Livejournal-logo.png)*[The Independent](http://www.independent.co.uk/ "The Independent"
Journalism
[](http://www.flickr.com/photos/10163152@N03/2980979414/)Image by [TomRaven](http://www.flickr.com/photos/10163152@N03/2980979414/) via Flickr I’ve had my head down for the
