Archive for February, 2006

Radio 1 Dj’s log onto Myspace

Monday, February 13th, 2006 Simon Waldman posts Radio 1 Dj's log onto Myspace referencing Robert Hamman Simon points out that a load of Radio One DJs have set up stall on MySpace (here's Jo Whiley ). I suppose this is a modern day ...

BT, Virgin and Microsoft in TV deal

Monday, February 13th, 2006 BT Group and Microsoft are set to team up with Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Mobile to launch what is expected to be Europe's first nationwide digital television broadcast service for mobile phones. Confirmation of the roll-out of the service is ...

Pete Clifton, head of BBC News Interactive talking about citizen Journalism

Monday, February 13th, 2006 Peter Clifton Head of the BBC News Interactive in conversation with conversation with Jemima Kiss The wider internet community has an ethos of contribution and collaboration without financial incentive. Is it exploitative for commercial news organisations to publish the ...

Citizen journalism gives an alternative voice to Israel

Monday, February 13th, 2006 Citizen reporting is about to democratise Israeli media, according to the founders of a new website designed to give a voice to those outside the mainstream press. Scoop.co.il was launched by former Maariv journalist Michael Weiss ...

The blog in the corporate machine

Monday, February 13th, 2006 The spread of "social media" across the internet - such as online discussion groups, e-mailing lists and blogs has brought forth a new breed of brand assassin, who can materialise from nowhere and savage a firm's reputation. Often the ...

As IBM jumps on board, there’s just no stopping AJAX now

Friday, February 10th, 2006 Ajax threatens software incumbents and its free "We've seen the Web moving from a publishing paradigm to an e-business paradigm to an AJAX paradigm." That is the considered verdict of IBM Software Group's CTO of Emerging Internet Technologies, ...

Boston developing plan For citywide Wi-Fi

Friday, February 10th, 2006 The City of Boston, long conspicuous by the absence of any municipal-wide effort to supply Wi-Fi access, is moving to support a citywide rollout of the wireless technology that is expected to be outlined in a report next week ...

Death of the blockbuster

Friday, February 10th, 2006 From Loic's blog a reference to a big piece on the death of the blockbuster by Chris Anderson of the Long Tail via Boing Boing Cory Doctorow on Boing Boing: "On The Long Tail blog, ...

Consumer is an industrial-age word

Friday, February 10th, 2006 Consumer is an industrial-age word, a broadcast-age word. It implies that we are all tied to our chairs, head back, eating "content" and crapping cash. According to Doc Searls Via engagementalliance

Not just another column about blogging

Thursday, February 9th, 2006 Inflamatory stuff from Jack Schafer in What newspaper history says about newspaper future. I'm not about to predict what the collapsing cost of media creation will ultimately do to the news business, if only because my track record at ...