Marc Reeves: Speaking truth to power: my speech to the CBI
Monday, 7 June 2010, 10:29
"I spent the last 15 years of my newspaper career regularly attending industry conferences in which the threats and opportunities of the internet were endlessly discussed and analysed. Pretty much everything that has come to pass was predicted, but what did the big newspaper groups do? Very little that was right, it turns out. … Newspapers are still trying aspiring to the revenue levels of the old days … but it’s only a problem if you’re trying to make an online revenue stream pay for a newsprint cost base."
GigaOm: Mary Meeker: Mobile Internet Will Soon Overtake Fixed Internet
Wednesday, 14 April 2010, 11:58
"Mary Meeker of Morgan Stanley … has released her latest massively detailed “State of the Internet” report, which she has been putting out periodically since 1995. … predicting that within the next five years “more users will connect to the Internet over mobile devices than desktop PCs.”
ReadWriteWeb: Combatting the Hype: 76% Don’t Access the Mobile Internet
Tuesday, 26 January 2010, 08:56
"According to research by UK-based Essential Research, 76% of mobile phone users don't use their mobile to access the Internet … cost and perceived usefulness are two of the biggest factors in keeping the mobile Web at bay. Over three quarters of respondents said that they thought it was too expensive to use, while 60% said that the effort necessary to learn how to use a smart phone wasn't worth it …"
The Daily Report: Posthumous Hosting and Digital Culture
Friday, 22 January 2010, 09:05
Jeffrey Zeldman: "A suggestion for a business. Sooner or later, some hosting company is going to figure out that it can provide a service and make a killing (as it were) by offering ten-, twenty-, and hundred-year packets of posthumous hosting."
The Daily Beast: Things to Stop Bitching About in 2010
Tuesday, 5 January 2010, 08:03
Tina Brown: "American newspapers are dying mostly because they were so dull for so long a whole generation gave up on them. They needed to innovate back in the Fax Age of the 1980s but were too self-important and making too much money with their monopolies to acknowledge it. … In the U.K., there is a banquet of glorious newspapers to feast on in the morning despite the presence of the Internet. All of these papers look nothing like they did 15 years ago."
The Economist: Newspapers and technology: Network effects |
Saturday, 19 December 2009, 13:10
"The internet is shaking up the news business, as the telegraph did; in the same way, mankind will be better informed about his fellow humans than before. If paper editions die, then Bennett’s prediction that communications technology would be the death of newspapers will be belatedly proved right. But that is not the same as the death of news."
New York Times: Two German Killers Demanding Anonymity Sue Wikipedia’s Parent
Friday, 13 November 2009, 08:37
"Wolfgang Werlé and Manfred Lauber became infamous for killing a German actor in 1990. Now they are suing to force Wikipedia to forget them. The legal fight pits German privacy law against the American First Amendment."
Sunday Times: Libel threat to force US papers out of Britain
Monday, 9 November 2009, 00:14
…And not just in print: "The National Enquirer, based in Miami, blocked British readers after it was successfully sued in London by Cameron Diaz, the Hollywood actress. Her lawyers showed that an article she deemed defamatory had been viewed 279 times by British internet users. … Some of the most prestigious US newspapers are now considering similar moves. A source at The Washington Post said blocking British readers online could be considered to avoid defamation suits in London."
BBC iPlayer: The Media Show: 28/10/2009
Thursday, 29 October 2009, 10:07
Includes an interesting segment with Dr Natalie Fenton from Goldsmith's University "who argues that instead of democratising information, the internet has narrowed our horizons."
AP: Google CEO: Vast Web changes coming within 5 years
Saturday, 24 October 2009, 12:59
"A Web where Chinese is the dominant language, and connections are so fast that distinctions between audio, video and text are blurred is perhaps just five years away, the head of Google said Wednesday…"
Daggle.com: Dear WSJ: To Avoid Google Disease, Please Put A Condom On Your Content
Friday, 23 October 2009, 00:02
Robert Thomson doesn't like promiscuity of readers who get their news online, and blames Google: "the whole Google model is based on digital disloyalty. It’s about disloyalty to creators." Danny Sullivan responds…
FT.com: The death of the media mogul
Sunday, 11 October 2009, 13:50
John Gapper: "The challenge of the internet is that it blows up the control of distribution, ensuring that all content owners – from Rupert Murdoch to the lowliest blogger – compete on equal terms. Moguls can no longer exploit its scarcity by buying television spectrum or by owning printing presses. That is why media moguls have been pushed on to the defensive by a new breed of technology moguls such as Steve Jobs of Apple and Sergey Brin and Larry Page, co-founders of Google. Control of distribution has passed to people who make the software through which content passes."
Vanity Fair: Rupert to Internet: It’s War!
Sunday, 4 October 2009, 16:56
"I have—in nine months of conversation with Murdoch, writing his biography after he bought the Journal, in 2007— often argued the nature of Internet culture with him to little avail. Murdoch can almost single-handedly take apart and re-assemble a complex printing press, but his digital-technology acumen and interest is practically zero. Murdoch’s abiding love of newspapers has turned into a personal antipathy to the Internet: for him it’s a place for porn, thievery, and hackers."
CNET News: Debate: Can the Internet handle big breaking news?
Monday, 29 June 2009, 11:42
"It happens time and time again: when news breaks, the Internet slows. …"
