psmith, journalist

Kelly does talk sense. If the Mirror can make a success of just doing its big niches well, then why compromise by SEO-ing news and writing about stuff that brings in page views but no audience?

Featuring @psmith

Football fact: "In the early 1970s, Blatter was elected president of the World Society of Friends of Suspenders, an organisation who tried to stop women replacing suspender belts with pantyhose"

This page says "This article was taken from Press Gazette…." but then says beneath that: "This article was originally published on newstatesman.com at 09:24 on 20 May 2010" So which is it?

"Advertisers and commercial partners want engagement from the customer [online]," Kelly said.
"Which is what, I think, makes it something of a crime when a newspaper with rich, long-established values decides to chuck those values overboard in favour of a massive disengaged audience.
"I think it is editorial prostitution and long-term commercial suicide."

Big battleground for the years and decades ahead. Newspapers can't just steal everything they want anymore without credit.

Free in print, free on mobile: "Evening Standard: The papaer has a new, free app for iPhone, Symbian, Windows Mobile, BlackBerry and Android, made by Handmark."

Just look at how many people Twitter it hiring – particularly for its "monetization" operations. All that time people spent asking where where the money was going to come from…

"I’d suggest he refocus on the reason his opinion was asked by the BBC in the first place: a member of the public suffered life-threatening gunshot wounds in a mid-afternoon gang battle at a Hackney Council-organised event."

"The Cloud, Europe’s largest wireless broadband network, is evaluating how to build a London-wide WiFi network in time for the Olympic Games after Boris Johnson, the capital’s mayor, asked it to draw up a blueprint."