Media
Food for thought: my own media habits have changed in a somewhat different direction than Brian's as find myself consuming more and more of my news on the iPad, but there's still universal insights here worth contemplating: "What seems to be happening is that many
Ukategorisert
Remember MyBlogLog? I must admit I'd almost forgotten about the network, even though I still have its widget on this blog. But when news of the leaked memo from Yahoo broke this week, showing it as one of several products "to be sunsetted", I was reminded
Epistemology
"Oh, I don't read HER. It's not that I don't like her, it's just that she makes me think too much," a journalist friend told me back when I had just graduated from City. He'd been in news
Journalism
I found this fascinating sign via Jackie Danicki's blog ages ago, but looking through my picture archive this morning it made me pause to think about how much journalism has changed since it moved online and all the debates about print vs online media. If I stared at
Journalism
Could excessive drinking be part of the reason why the media industry is in such a bad state? In his book "Sex, murder and bad management" Trygve Aas Olsen argues that the paper's heavy drinking culture must take a huge share of the blame for Norwegian
Blogging
Wow, this one hit me. Paul Carr's The Rise of Microblogging, The Death of Posterity is really thoughtprovoking, worth reading and reflecting on. I found this post via a tweet from Loic LeMeur who said he totally disagrees, but even though I often find myself disagreeing with Carr
Personal
Okay, so July gave me a lot of time to think. I won't complain about that. As it happened, all this time to think came just after I'd attended Journalism.co.uk's Newsrewired in London. So I thought a lot about journalism in July,
BusinessModel
Internet start-ups are challenging the traditional separation between advertising and editorial, between fundraising and content production, in ways big media companies could never have gotten away with. Still, in the face of the media industry's financial conundrum, is this wall about to come down? Should it? 'If
Journalism
Award-winning blogger-journalist Dorte Toft ponders why young Danes queue up to get into journalism school on Berlingske.dk this week (via Journalisten.dk): "I can't recommend anyone today to train as a journalist unless it's such a burning desire that it would break your heart
Blogging
A decade or two from now I suspect people will look back with amusement and incredulity on how once upon a time revealing online that you had opinions or flaws could get you fired. In a world where most everyone who is someone has said and done plenty of stupid
Journalism
As newsrooms all over the world are starting to catch up with the online revolution and grapple with the new opportunities it offers, journalism has almost become a different kind of career alltogether, requiring a whole new type of skillset. I've been thinking a lot about this recently,
Freesheets
Could we see Schibsted mount a take-over attempt of Johnston Press following yesterday's announcement of the latter company appointing the former media group's ex-CEO, Kjell Aamot, as a non-executive director? Nah, I can't really see that happening, but it's an interesting appointment.