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Archive for January, 2007

So tired, tired of waiting tired of waiting for you: record labels long for digital to rescue dwindling sales

Thursday, January 18th, 2007New music players, a growing number of broadband connections and a proliferation of online stores helped digital music sales double last year but the surge was still not enough to reverse a declining music market.Record companies' digital sales ...

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They will be known as the bitter blog wars

Thursday, January 18th, 2007US documentary about the strange new world of online activism. Director James Rogan captures a hotly contested political battle on camera: the Connecticut Democratic Senatorial primary showdown between hero of the blogging 'netroots' Ned Lamont and ...

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Newspapers embracing the digital age?

Saturday, January 13th, 2007An overview of what is happening in the UK by Andy DickensonI think what it demonstrates is that there is so much more room for innovation.For the most part, things are pretty static. Those who have ...

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Wicki goes Swicki

Saturday, January 13th, 2007Eurekster allows users to build "swickis", search engines that are customised to the needs of a like-minded group of searchers. As more search queries are plugged into a swicki engine, the quality of results improves, better ...

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If you are not part of the conversation, you don’t count – From mass media to social media

Friday, January 12th, 2007Neil McInstosh looks at what blogging has mean't for the Guardian in 2005To lift the lid on stats we normally keep pretty quiet: blog traffic of 1.2m page impressions in December 05 grew to a record ...

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The billion-man research team

Friday, January 12th, 2007The Financial Times ran a story on Wednesday January 10th, with the above headline.Referencing the terminology Crowdsourcing though I prefer Yochai Benklers thought, The Wealth of Networks which also is the title of his book.Benkler ...

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So from Pulp to the virtual frontier

Friday, January 12th, 2007We are midwives at the birth of virtual economies in which people trade land, sell products, pay to have sassily attired avatars or just do their own creative thingBelieves Guardian columist Vic KeeganVic ...

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Does dead wood still have a future?

Friday, January 12th, 2007Its a pulpy question. Can newspapers thrive in todays world?Well according to Sly Bailey they can though she believes the effect on advertising is cyclical and not structural. Personally I am not so sure.The effect of ...

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By the people for the people

Friday, January 12th, 2007A new mindset for newsrooms Could also be for magazines too?If we are to survive as news organizations, survival will have to be charted by people who live in the new world, rather than by people ...

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