April 2009
15 posts
This is a great beat down to Bill O’Reilly’s call to boycott Roger Ebert’s home paper, the Chicago Sun-Times.
City of London police threatened to arrest, under the Pubilc Order Act, journalists who were covering protestors marking the death, the day before, of a news agent who had been tackled by police.
PJ at Groklaw has published an essay dealing with Google’s Eric Schmidt’s address to newspaper publishers, AP’s desperate threat to sue for linking, and why you can’t make money from infotainment.
When you set up a business model where the news content has to be the main money-maker, it invariably degrades the news content. In my view, newspapers are dying for that very reason, because people no...
I found this on the Export Page on the Apple website.
It’s prohibited to allow certain countries to use Apple products in the design, development, production or use of nuclear, missiles, and chemical and biological weapons and technology without proper authorization from the U.S. Government. This applies to all countries, EXCEPT Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France,...
“[W]e’ve been able to prove that long-form journalism can work on the web, as...”
– The Atlantic Plans Acquisitions To Build Web Traffic | paidContent.org (via predicate)
Late last autumn, Trinity Mirror launched a series of ‘hyper-local’ websites in Northern England, mostly populated by local, volunteer writers. Now they are taking the content from these sites and publishing six free weeklies.
Also at the Online Journalism Blog is this article about writing online when there is a publication ban by the courts.
In Britain, the courts routinely send a notice to the press notifying them of what they cannot print. (Here they are.)
But the court order only binds those to whom it is addressed:
“Who is bound: This order binds all persons and all companies (whether acting by their...
Michael Kinsley has this suggestion about how to to save your local newspaper.
How about nothing? You may love the morning ritual of the paper and coffee, as I do, but do you seriously think that this deserves a subsidy? Sorry, but people who have grown up around computers find reading the news on paper just as annoying as you find reading it on a screen. As many have pointed out, more people...
This guy makes a good point about the telephone and Social Media
It’s as if after the invention of the phone, marketing managers figured out people where using phones to talk about their brands, and dubbed that phenomenon “social media”.
And they went: “We should do something with phones!”
Which is utterly besides the point, people talk to their friends over the phone about brands, because...
