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Look at freesheets in context, and the longevity just isn’t there. Piet Bakker: “Free sports papers, free evening papers, free weekend editions, free quality papers, free home delivered papers… almost all of these experiments have failed miserably. Which makes the Evening Standard something to watch very carefully…”
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AR makes an rarely made point on the Murdoch empire: “Thirdly, there is another really excellent broadcaster with an irritatingly good news website – Sky News. I have seen nothing to suggest that there is any intention to put this website behind a pay wall. So, any British newspaper intending to charge for general content would have to contend – not only with the BBC – but with the free availability of a first rate Murdoch-owned general news service on the web. All the arguments about competition from a ‘free’ BBC online apply to a ‘free’ Sky News website.”
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So Goog will create RSS feeds for sites that don’t have them!
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PHYSICAL sales decline, but MTV doesn’t give a hoot: DIGITAL sales are going through the roof: 60m song downloads to date.
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Interesting. Get your news not from a reader but from in the browser.
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Quite prophetic from Guido in 2006: “The News” will no longer be defined by Big Media. “The News” is whatever is disseminated to a wide audience, Big Media is going to be disintermediated when it falls down because technology has drastically reduced the cost of dissemination”
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For every news org that’s raising the paywall, there’s another that’s just getting readers to register.
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Over 830,000 tweets were analysed during the course of 2009 for this report. It shows that collectively the Labour party has more followers (113,201) than both the Conservatives (36,874) and the Liberal Democrats (32,202) combined.
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If the vicar has a case for libel – a civil matter – then why the hell are the cops involved?
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Why not do a BA (hons) in celebrity journalism? Career, uh, guaranteed….
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This is software that somehow follows cards during televised poker games. the mind boggles.
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Biggest film ever, by box office takings. But really, trust me, it ain’t the best in terms of quality.
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Scapegoating conucil papers doesn’t solve anyone’s problem. They are, in the grand scheme of things and in most cases, legitimate.
