apps
[https://i0.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2010/06/IMG_0005.png] **The Good**: The navigation is surprisingly fluid and intuitive. You can either read the the whole issue as you might the paper edition, swiping through each section in turn. Or, you can pick and choose the
community
And so it begins. After a launch event last night (which was invited to but was unable to attend, alas), *[The Times](http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/)* and *[The Sunday Times](http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/)* have begun the four week transition to their new online model.
events
Last night I took myself off to the Frontline Club, for a discussion on digital media, mobiles and paywalls [http://frontlineclub.com/events/2010/05/will-apple-save-the-news-business-apps-ipads-paywalls-and-the-mobile-hope-for-publishers.html] – based on the question “Will Apple save media?”. All relevant, cool and topical stuff. However, I should have known that the presence of
monetisation
So, The Times and Sunday Times will be behind a paywall from June [http://paidcontent.co.uk/article/419-times-new-pay-site-1-a-day-2-a-week-starting-june/] . The theoretical arguments between the “link economy and conversation brings value” and the “content is valuable and must be paid for” camps have been iterated and reiterated to death in recent
monetisation
So, it’s happened, as we all knew it would. Rupert Murdoch is taking his online sites paid-for. From the BBC story on the announcement [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8186701.stm]: > In order to stop readers from moving to the huge number of free news
books
I’ve been doing something for the last few weeks that I don’t normally do: I’ve been buying a daily newspaper. And here’s why: [](https:
Journalism
I said that the silly season was on its way on Friday, didn’t I? Well, I now have evidence: “Big Fish Dies” above the fold. *Serious journalism.*
anonymity
I think that it’s absolutely despicable that a journalistic operation did this. The “public interest” figleaf they’re using blows away the second you consider that they’ve made it easier for people to connect the blog posts with real cases, not harder. I’ve seen journalists in several
BBC
*Photo by [RachelH_ on Flickr](http://www.flickr.com/photos/bagelmouse/3403502047/), used under a [Creative Commons licence](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en_GB)*My work schedule means that I’m sat in Sutton today, while all the reporting action is up in central London, as
Blogging
I’ve always assumed that, by nature of being from niche B2B titles, our blogs were significantly less popular than those from national newspapers. And then I saw a story on journalism.co.uk reporting on The Times’ blogs and their traffic figures [http://blogs.journalism.co.uk/editors/2008/
hosting
Martin at Press Gazette has spotted something interesting: The Times [http://blogs.pressgazette.co.uk/fleetstreet/2008/01/04/server-strained-push-readerss-to-blogs-instead/] website suffered under load this morning [http://blogs.pressgazette.co.uk/fleetstreet/2008/01/04/server-strained-push-readerss-to-blogs-instead/] , and so visitors were directed to the Typepad-hosted blogs instead. Following The Telegraph [http:
