Web/Tech
Just received a spam email seemingly sent with my Yahoo email address, so if you get one from my Yahoo address called 'January 74% off', it's not me, don't open, but my question is how do they do that? The email address is identical.
Web/Tech
It's my worst nightmare come true, well actually it could be a lot worse, but still: my laptop is ill, so I think I need to head for the gym to steady my nerves. Yesterday I thought I'd have a major nervous breakdown when I was
Blogging
This piece is absolutely hillarious, so I couldn't help but share it with you. Here's an excerpt, but go read the whole thing. The author first deals with the woes of the music industry: "You think you were the first to suffer from your content
Blogging
Remember the Swedish blogger who brought down a trade minister? Well it seems the story is repeating itself in the UK. Iain Dale suggests it was blogger Guido Fawkes who through is relentless campaign forced Hain's resignation as Work and Pensions secretary, and Guido certainly thinks so himself
Media
Did The Independent online have technical problems this morning? Some ten minutes ago I only got error messages like site not found, site unavailable or too many incoming HTTP requests if I tried to access articles from my newsreader or via bookmarks on my work PC, same thing earlier this
Freesheets
Is it a marriage made in heaven or hell? A marriage of love, convenience or desperation? Last week news broke that Morten Lund, an early stage investor in Skype, had acquired a 51 per cent stake in Nyhedsavisen, the previously Icelandic-owned Danish freesheet. Ten pence to foot the bill for
Media
On the night of January 17, 1998, Matt Drudge revealed that Newsweek editors had spiked a story about Bill Clinton and an intern named Monica Lewinsky. His story ended once and for all the gate-keeper ability, if not the mentality, of the mainstream media elite. He later said "We
Media
Not a lot of substance in this piece, other than that the brave new world of the world wide web/ Web 2.0/social media is changing mainstream media (though social media, I think that's essentially what's being referred to here, can't really be
Freesheets
Philip Anschutz's newspaper company is not bidding for Metro's US freesheets, despite published reports saying otherwise, an Anschutz's spokesman told Denver Business Journal. However, Metro International's CEO Per Mikael Jensen recently told me the company currently is undergoing a strategic review where
Media
A distressed Anne Aasheim, editor-in-chief of Dagbladet, stormed out of a meeting with the union, about redundancies packages of all things, when news broke that one of the tabloid's reporters had been injured in an attack in Afghanistan Monday evening. The reporter, Carsten Thomassen, was covering Norway'
Media
I've previously criticised Manuel Ferrer for what I thought was a somewhat overtly dramatic and just a wee bit far-fetched conspiracy theory, but here his talent for melodrama really comes into its right, and the first few lines are beautifully written. So much so I forgot to contemplate
Media
The Guardian's Organgrinder gave us an interesting glimpse into German mentality this week, when the blog revealed that German journalists were gleeful to see Mecom shares plunge. The blog asserted German hacks couldn't help but feel "a tiny bit of Schadenfreud" that this should