Monthly Archives: July 2010
Roundup of commentary on Times paywall
The Times paywall has been the subject of plenty of speculation and comment. I won’t weigh in on what, how, why and how well they’re doing but here’s a roundup of some of the commentary I’ve read recently: The Guardian said the Times website had lost almost 90% of its readers since the paywall kicked [...]
News apps and iPads
In honour of the iPad finally going on sale in New Zealand soon, and in anticipation of the NZ news apps we expect to see soon after, here’s a link to Josh Benton’s review of a few news iPad apps, which is worth a look. Here’s an excerpt: Just about every news website created in [...]
Patrick Meier on media use of Ushahidi
Patrick Meier on media use of Ushahidi from Nieman Journalism Lab on Vimeo.
Newspapers and the cloud
This gave me a little kick of happiness. It’s a list of cloud-based services Telegraph Media Group in London is using, and it appears to be a longer list than when I was there (three+ years ago). I remember a time when external hosting was rather out of favour. The following is from the GigaOm [...]
Ethan Zuckerman on widening your news diet