Simon @ June 28, 2008 # 2 Comments
Now, there’s a headline to get the pulse racing! paidContentUK picks up on an interesting part of the Lords report on media ownership, which says
News aggregator sites benefit on news gathering done by other organisations, but they do not invest in original content themselves. This is an issue of justifiable convern and we recommend that the Department for Culture [...]
Simon @ May 7, 2008 # 3 Comments
This has just been published as an essay in the Reuters Institute publication ‘The Price of Plurality - Choice, Diversity and Broadcasting Institutions in the Digital Age’ (download the .pdf) which is part of the PSB Review . It was actually written at the start of the year, so as well as perhaps being a [...]
Simon @ March 26, 2008 # One Comment
Source: FlickrAn example of distinctly not-live blogging. So, last week I went to one of the seminars currently underway as part of the BERR/ DCMS Convergence Think Tank.
What is this thing?, you ask. And, to quote their site, it…
“has been set up to examine the implications of technological development for the media and communications industries, [...]
Simon @ March 20, 2008 # One Comment
Newspaper campaigns are all too often fleeting, faddish things which people cook up in the desire to attract a bit of PR and then give up on all too easy once it gets tricky.
No such fickleness over at Guardian technology where Charles Arthur and his gang have been banging their ‘Free our data’ drum for [...]