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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
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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
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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
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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
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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'
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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
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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
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The web has made the world so much smaller, and in my last post I focused on one of the flipsides of this: the 'spectre of libel tourism'. But the global nature of the web has only exacerbated a problem that is just as much result of a
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"Four of our directors, including myself, bought shares today, because Mecom shares offer extremely good value for money at the moment," said Mecom boss David Montgomery when I spoke to him yesterday evening (for this and this story, in Norwegian). Montgomery and three of his non-executive directors had
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Journalisten.se, the news site of Swedish trade publication Journalisten, published by Sweden's journalist union, unveiled its brand new website just after Christmas. The site is built in textpattern, an almost bloglike open software solution. Apart from the much improved layout, the new site is a joy for
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It's the same procedure every year: in the last month of the year, scores of journalists will be called upon to try their hands as clairvoyants and more or less accurately divne the developments we'll see in the beat of the respective reporter in the year
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Santa Claus has been mentioned 2083 times in Norway's newspapers, on- and offline, this December, compared to Jesus, who's only been mentioned 675 times. However, the latter has a longer "season" and has been mentioned about 3,000 times as often as Santa during