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The air is rich with theories as to next steps for the Wall St Journal, now that it’s under Murdoch control. Not least, many are wondering if it should ditch its subcriber model, and let its stories go free-to-air.
The noise has also promted others to wonder on the effect on FT.com. From PaidContent:
Also, the subscriber [...]
A useful take from Robert Niles at Online Journalism Review on established media using the power of crowds to supplement news stories.
In a true crowdsourced project, information is not verified manually by a reporter between submission and publication. Which inspired concern from many traditional reporters.
A well-designed crowdsourcing project, like a well-edited newsroom, can discourage bogus [...]
comScore has just released figures showing the rapid global expansion of social networking sites. If you watch this space, most of the figures are predictable, with Facebook up by an absurd 270 per cent over the previous year. Not every social site is a worldwide phenomenon: Bebo, for example, is Big In Europe, while Orkut [...]
Thoughtful piece by Guardian Unlimited supremo Neil McIntosh, prompted by the lack of outcome from The Economist’s Project Red Stripe. McIntosh uses the success of the iPod as the basis for an argument that success can come via seemingly small steps that, taken in the right sequence, can form a much larger whole.
The lessons [...]
Business 2.0 May be Closed By September
Real shame if this is true. Report suggests that the title suffered from lack of focus from the Time group.
The Most Powerful People You’ve Never Heard Of
They’re right: I hadn’t heard of a single one of them. But then, I never did mix in the right circles. I certainly didn’t have dinner with Warren Buffet the other night.
What a nice idea. Penguin Books get together with teen social site Piczo, giving its younger users the opportunity to design covers for a host of classic books. The cynical could accuse Penguin of tapping into a cheap source of creativity. Me? I’ll get my 12-year-old on the case this evening…
PiczoMYPenguin
Newser – Faster, Smarter News
Perhaps I’m just in a grumpy mood. I’ve just come across Newser, a new news aggregation site much in the mould of DayLife and Newsvine. I went to the About page, looking to discover what made this newcomer special. Here’s what it says:
Newser does the reading for you. Newser selects [...]
The Top 100 Alternative Search Engines, August
Not a number? A free man? Excellent. Then declare this week ‘I’m Going To Be Radical And Try A Different Search Engine Week’. You’ll feel different. The family will notice a new you. And in a small way, the world will become a slightly nicer place.
Either that, or you’ll [...]
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Remember Steve Ballmer’s ‘Developers, developers, developers’ moment of madness from last year? Here’s the Apple remix…
