Tag Archives: news

Newspapers and the cloud

By Julie Starr | Published: July 21, 2010

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 [...]

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How history and news can work together

By Julie Starr | Published: July 13, 2010

I’m breaking my own rule. Until recently I’d sworn off subscribing to magazines because too often they pile up in a corner unread and mock me. But I’ve decided to subscribe to Lapham’s Quarterly. Partly because it’s a quarterly and I reckon I can handle four issues a year. Partly because the magazine’s sturdy enough [...]

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Time spent vs ad spend ‘out of whack’

By Julie Starr | Published: June 9, 2010

There are a few interesting numbers in this slide presentation on internet trends made at a marketing conference in New York by Morgan Stanley’s Mary Meeker. (Links to a pdf download.) She points to big growth in mobile and the iPad being one of the fastest growing ‘new consumer computing devices’ ever. This one caught [...]

Posted in Business Models, Journalism, Mobile & Tablets | Also tagged advertising, Journalism | 2 Comments

Here’s what I want from news orgs

By Julie Starr | Published: May 29, 2010

A conversation this week got my brain fizzing again about news. (Nice to fizz rather than funk). The conversation ranged through what is perceived to be wrong with the news business, what’s right about it, what impact it’s having on society, what journalism graduates need to know, who journalists need to be. The usual stuff. [...]

Posted in Journalism, Newspapers | Also tagged accountability, data, jouralism, source tagging, sources | 13 Comments

Copyright, findability and other ideas from #ndf

By Julie Starr | Published: November 25, 2009

I was at the National Digital Forum conference in Wellington earlier this week mingling with people involved in digitising and curating New Zealand’s cultural heritage material – people from museums, galleries, archives, libraries. I was struck by a few commonalities between the cultural heritage sector (known as GLAM – Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums) and the [...]