Category: Stories
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Times bullish: no longer throwing money down web toilet
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It’s too early to say whether the Times paywall is a success or not. But it’s done wonders for conferences about newspapers. In place of the usual hand-wringing and Kumbaya pipedreams, we’re getting quite a bit of decent discussion. The Telegraph is next to ask for your dosh – probably with a “metered” model used…
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The Autistic Network
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Andrew’s Mailbag Isn’t it time for a War on Stupid Generalisations? These usually need a Czar, and I’d gladly volunteer. Novelist Zadie Smith has written about the movie The Social Network and wonders if Mark Zuckerberg’s apparent extreme autism doesn’t manifest itself in both the reductive view of humanity that Facebook (and Web 2.0) software…
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Shhh… Opera holds the web’s most valuable secret
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Without anybody noticing, Opera has amassed one of the world’s most valuable commercial resources. And the funny thing is, it isn’t going to do anything evil with it. Marketing, new media and technology pundits may have to rethink a few things once they digest the size of Opera’s well-kept secret. It is possible the gurus…
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Nathan Barleys to fill Olympic chasm – PM
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Prime Minister David Cameron has cast his gaze east across to Essex – and dreams of a landscape filled with social media marketing consultants and SEO boutiques as far as the eye can see. In the aftermath of the Olympics, Cameron wants to put the land and property on the Lea Valley to private sector…