Monthly Archives: March 2010

Times of India in top 10 for New Zealanders

By Julie Starr | Published: March 30, 2010

A couple of things caught my eye in Hitwise‘s latest New Zealand newsletter. The first is that nzherald.co.nz made it to number 10 on the list of online department stores: Top 10 Shopping and Classifieds – Department Stores based on Visits for December 2009 1. Amazon.com [...]

Posted in Featured | Tagged Newspapers, nz, nzherald, Times of India | 4 Comments

What Emily said, Times to charge, Indy sold

By Julie Starr | Published: March 30, 2010

The Times and Sunday Times announced they will start charging for online content from June at a price of one pound a day or two pounds a week. Good news for those of us sitting comfortably on the sidelines waiting to see how Murdoch’s paywalls are going to work. Great news I imagine for competitors [...]

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Nigel, blogging and movie critics

By Julie Starr | Published: March 28, 2010

Nice to see Nigel Horrocks blogging at www.aikenstix.com. I enjoyed his post on the declining relevance of movie critics, particularly this part: Today, I picked up the printed programme for a film festival about to hit my town and gave up trying to work out what each movie was about. I’m sure there were a [...]

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Video ads and price points

By Julie Starr | Published: March 28, 2010

This is a bit of a lazyweb post because it’s Sunday and this is in my brain right now and I know I won’t have time to research it. I have a couple of questions about ads at the beginning of video clips on news websites, and price points for DVDs and online TV. It’s [...]