Category: Media

  • What if bandwidth is the new oil?

    Forgive the self-promotion, but I enjoyed writing this what-if for PC Plus: Of course, bandwidth isn’t controlled by sheikhs or delivered in trucks, and we’re pretty sure that the US won’t invade a sovereign nation to seize control of its cable TV network – but that doesn’t mean that there aren’t striking similarities between oil,…

  • You too can maik money bye writing artickles

    This brilliant website appeared via an ad on a journalism forum, which promised a sure-fire way to make money from freelance journalism: as more and more companies and entrepreneurs have turned their attention to the Internet, the competition has made finding fresh, original content more difficult than ever before.  This situation has created a dire need…

  • Should blogs link to the leaked BNP membership list? Probably not

    Linking to defamatory material isn’t a good idea, and as Matt Wardman writes: this scenario exists in the case of the BNP Membership List if a single person is on there by mistake: links will be to a post alleging that x, y or z is a member of the BNP. Bearing in mind that…

  • “What in heaven’s name made you think you could monetize the real estate in which somebody is breaking up with their girlfriend?”

    Not everybody in marketing sees the entire world as an advertising opportunity, it seems. According to Silicon Alley Insider, Procter & Gamble’s GM for interactive marketing and innovation, Ted McConnell, isn’t keen on Facebook ads. Who said this is media? Media is something you can buy and sell. Media contains inventory. Media contains blank spaces.…

  • Newspapers: firing the wrong people?

    There’s an interesting piece by David Carr in today’s New York Times about (US) newspapers’ latest cost-cutting wheeze: firing their best writers. Right now, the consumer has all manner of text to choose from on platforms that range from a cellphone to broadsheet. The critical point of difference journalism offers is that it can reduce…

  • HD video cameras: as long as tech is this confusing, we’ll need people to cut through the bullshit

    A while back, I mentioned that taking baby steps into “proper” photography made me weep hot salty tears of frustration and rage, until a bit of informed advice and a few magazines cheered me up and translated the crap into plain English. It turns out that the world of digital photography is the simplest thing…

  • What’s wrong with the Daily Mail (typography)?

    Is it just me, or does the typeface used for the bullet points in this boxout (from the Daily Mail) really suck? It’s used for body text in lots of the paper, and it makes my eyeballs bleed.

  • Silicon Alley Insider on *that* Steve Jobs rumour

    SAI spots an uncorroborated, anonymous post that says Jobs has had a heart attack. Publishes it, causing an immediate drop in Apple share prices. O noes! Uncorroborated, anonymous bollocks turns out to be bollocks! Time for some retrospective justification: We viewed it as significant, however, both for those who care about Apple and Steve and…

  • “RealPlayer: like the Black Death, but made of software”

    Feeling ranty? Techradar’s just uploaded “48 things we hate about tech“, which enabled yours truly to cheer himself up by being nasty about things. Any I’ve missed?

  • Techno arse

    Great post on Broadstuff: If you read Techmeme, the aggregator of news in the Technosphere, you may not have noticed that the world’s financial markets nearly collapsed yesterday and that the world is again looking at a 1930’s style Great Depression scenario. You would not know that artist Damien Hirst flogged off £70m of “fine…