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It’s won’t be majoratively ad-funded in the near future, so there has to be some kind of solution…
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What does a rolling news channel do when it can’t call everybody and get them to talk to about it? “Twitter, Google Chat, Skype and Facebook were used to contact sources and conduct interviews; while YouTube and searches of TwitPic provided on-the-ground footage. These tools were being picked up by the entire newsroom, Purser tells us, not just the online team.”
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Dyson is great at analysing print papers – but is the design and craft he speaks of a dying art?
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Commercial newspapers cost loads of money too and that comes out of shareholders’ pockets. If there’s a more effecient way for councils to communicate with taxpayers they have no choice but to do it.
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This is massive, a genuine gamechanger: “Google has confirmed yesterday’s reports – YouTube has inked rights from the big-money Indian Premier League’s (IPL) licensing partner Global Cricket Ventures to live-stream all 60 matches of the 45-day tournament, starting March 12.”
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Now THAT is telling it straight.
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This sounds awfully familiar. It comes to something when the Army encourages tweeting but MUFC bans it.
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TMG looking more and more like a technology company – not just a publisher – every week. This is a good thing.
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The Fail Whale is going to be one of the most nostalgic images of the early millenium for tech-media types. That is, of course, if he ever finally swims away for good.
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Martin sensibly asks why amateur historians aren’t considered a threat to professional historians: …”why do some people find it so hard to accept that the enthusiastic amateur, or the person on the ground who knows their local area, can contribute something valuable that can be broadly described as ‘journalism’?”

