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Farmers Weekly colleague Caroline on the sheer rudeness of the coalition government [http://www.nufsaid.net/2010/05/13/take-your-time-its-only-a-deadline/]: > Itâs taken long enough, but weâve finally got ourselves a new DEFRA secretary. Caroline Spelman was announced as the departmentâs head honcho at about 7pm last
advertising
The problem we have to face up to is that just sticking a paywall around what we used to do will not solve our problems on its own (and by decreasing page views, may harm ad revenue and make things worseâŚ. ) We actually have to re-evaluate what we do from
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 yeterdayâs post, Matt Brittin, managing director of Google UK, makes that very same point in front of a committee of MPs: >
Journalism
To dismiss the whole of the free-to-air reporting, analysis and news-gathering being done on blogs and the myriad forms of social media that exist in that one paragraph is to duck the crucial question of âwhat do you offer thatâs so much more compelling than the work done on
Clay Shirky
Whenever Clay Shirky posts about journalism, journalism blogs must link it. It is the law. * *In this case, itâs worth it, too. He does a very straightforward piece of [analysis of a newspaper in the US](http://www.shirky.com/weblog/2009/10/rescuing-the-reporters/), figuring out what itâs
BBC
Any news organisation thatâs serious about being accurate needs to read the tale of BBC woe [http://onlinejournalismblog.com/2009/09/24/when-the-lack-of-comments-damages-your-news-brand/] Paul Bradshaw spins. Hereâs the money quote: > Of course having comments on the story would have allowed this discussion to take place in public,
Journalism
Sometimes, a good graphic says all that needs to be said: [https://i1.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2009/09/pcuk-harris-poll-paid-content-reader-intentions-o.png] Loads more data on PaidContent UK [http://paidcontent.co.uk/article/419-pcukharris-poll-only-five-percent-of-readers-would-pay-for-online-news/] , plenty of good analysis on PDA [http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/pda/2009/
news
OK. Saturday morning task for those of you really interested in the future of online journalism. Grab a nice, strong mug of coffee (or other suitable beverage) and sit down to read this [http://strange.corante.com/2009/09/09/visualisation-for-news-and-community-discovery] : > By and large, news websites still reflect their
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Good stuff Iâve read recently, havenât linked to yet, but donât have much to add to right now: * The Nichepaper Manifesto [http://blogs.harvardbusiness.org/haque/2009/07/the_nichepaper_manifesto.html] â an articulate and well argued guide to how niche publishing might looks going forwards. * Media
Journalism
I have one of those long, ranty blog posts building in me right now.This isnât it. But if you want to know what it might be about, there are two things you should know:1. With the news that NetNewsWire, my RSS reader of choice, is [now syncing
monetisation
Thereâs an interesting paragraph in Cory Doctorowâs review [http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2009/jul/28/cory-doctorow-free-chris-anderson] of Chris Andersonâs new book Free [http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1905211473?ie=UTF8&tag=fishnefedora-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=19450&
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[https://i1.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2009/07/IMG_0812.jpg] *Cover of a Media Standards Trust brochure*
