Monthly Archives: July 2009
Meg Pickard on hecklers and engagement
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 [...]
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Paywalls – FT for, Telegraph against
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 [...]
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‘Hi, you’re hysterical and biased, please subscribe to the NBR’
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 [...]
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The 19-year-old behind BreakingNewsOn
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 [...]
Surge of News apps for iPhone