Teenagers don’t buy papers, don’t use Twitter, don’t listen to radio This Morgan Stanley report, written by a 15-year-old, got a lot of coverage recently. This excerpt is from an FT story. Morgan Stanley’s European media analysts asked Matthew Robson, one of the bank’s interns from a London school, to describe his friends’ media habits. His report [...]
Thursday, July 23, 2009
I’m heartened by some ‘open’ developments in New Zealand. Firstly, kudos to Nat Torkington and Glen Barnes for setting up http://opengovt.org.nz, a website that promises to catalogue any government data that’s publicly available for download and further use. This is cool. It can become a useful port of call for anyone looking for data to [...]
Monday, July 20, 2009
The New York Times has a nice video tribute to Walter Cronkite with images and footage from the assassination of President John F Kennedy, Vietnam and the moon landing, and a fine opening sentence: “Walter Cronkite’s legacy was serving as the most trusted man in America during the biggest events of the 20th century.” Quite a [...]
Monday, July 20, 2009
Bill Bennett is compiling a list of NZ media folk on Twitter. Have a look and see if there’s anyone missing.
Sunday, July 19, 2009
Lance Wiggs and Bernard Hickey, among others, have written useful posts this week in response to the NBR’s decision to start charging for around 20 per cent of its online content. There’s a lot in both posts, which make a point by point response to the reasons given by Barry Colman, the NBR’s publisher, for the [...]
Saturday, July 18, 2009
Ben Lorica has a roundup of recent iPhone app sales on the O’Reilly Radar blog and notes a surge in apps for News. On any given week, about 22% of all apps in the U.S. iTunes store are free. The percentage of free News apps is slightly higher (31%). The most popular News apps are [...]
Friday, July 17, 2009
For the longest time I’ve meant to write up more of my notes from Webstock in February. Now I realise the good folks at Webstock have posted videos of the speakers on Vimeo, which is even better. One of the people I wanted to write more about was Meg Pickard, director of user and community [...]
Friday, July 17, 2009
Lionel Barber, editor of the Financial Times, was quoted in the Guardian yesterday as saying that paywalls are inevitable and predicting that “almost all” news organisations will be charging for online content within a year. Barber said building online platforms that could charge readers on an article-by-article or subscription basis was one of the key challenges [...]
Thursday, July 16, 2009
The NBR sent an email this afternoon to its email subscribers telling us we would have the opportunity as of tomorrow morning to subscribe to extra special paid-for online content. These selected, top stories will be aimed at providing you high-quality, original, useful material you will not read anywhere else. And they will be relevant [...]
Wednesday, July 15, 2009
I started following BreakingNewsOn on Twitter a long time ago and I am still a follower. Largely because it does what it says on the tin – it posts tweets summarising breaking news from around the world, generally well before local media outlets pick it up. Like many people, until yesterday I didn’t realise that [...]
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Thursday, July 23, 2009
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