A Tip/Wag for the BBC’s new linking policy.
A tip of the hat for the fact that the BBC will be introducing a form of in text linking and will be providing readers with links to background material from around the web including user generated content sites like Youtube, Flickr and Wikipedia.
However, a wag of the […]
(Some) media executives have realised that online streaming of sports events doesn’t cannibalise broadcast audiences because 99% of people prefer to watch sports on the big screen:
“We’ve learned that wherever you are, you watch on the biggest screen you can,” Mr. Bowman said.
To be sure, CBS came to this conclusion slowly. In past years, the […]
The doyen of independent US media survey research, The Pew Institute has released its latest biennial report on news consumption.
This is a first impressions post at this point, but the first and last rows of this table are instructive:
“Since the early 1990s, the proportion of Americans saying they read a newspaper on a typical day […]
Fascinating post from Chris Blattman (currently in Liberia) about how the international media is reducing local political tensions over the high cost of food:
What I have now heard twice in Liberia, however, is that we should not expect a repeat performance. “At first people were very angry” said one grassroots trainer and organizer, “but since […]
Starting from a provocative premise, Jeff Jarvis muses on the new role of editors in a new media environment:
There is still a role for editors, but it changes. There is a need to add context and fill holes in understanding - by using links. As we move from an economy of scarcity in media to […]
I am a massive field hockey fan. Hockey took up a major part of my life as a teenager and I was really pleased to start playing again this year for the LSE.
Following a sport with the niche appeal of field hockey is a bit of a labour of love most of the time. Most […]
This week marks the first anniversary of round two of the poll wars between The Australian and the Australian online psephological blogosphere.
There’s little benefit in raking over what was said on both sides at the time, but I don’t think anyone would disagree that by this time last year, the work of bloggers like Peter […]
Wow, someone at the Tele mustn’t think Costello is a realistic chance to come back to the big stage judging by this headline:
Pea-hearted Pete tipped to squib top job
The weird thing is that the substance of Malcolm Farr’s article under the headline is much more balanced. Is this a case of a subbie having a […]
An interesting piece of back of the envelope content analysis from the LibDemVoice:
Is The Sun (owner: Rupert Murdoch) indulging in a campaign of partisan reporting designed to damage Facebook, one of the main rivals to MySpace (owner: Rupert Murdoch)? ….
……So, that would be 14 positive stories about MySpace compared to 1 negative. A bit different […]
Bob Dumpling at Polliegraph highlights this shocking paragraph from a recent SMH Op-Ed by Paul Sheehan:
“The hysterics in the refugee and mandatory detention debates have always thrown around words like “shame” and “gulags” and engaged in moral relativism, comparing Howard to Saddam Hussein, while refusing to recognise that there are real consequences of failures […]