Job elimination experts McKinsey & Co are currently touring Conde Nast's New York office with one of those people zapper phasers. Okay, it’s a spreadsheet really, but the end result is all the same. No job is apparently safe unless you work at the New Yorker magazine. The New York Observer has...
The Washington Post has a good natured piece that is well worth a read on the liberties blogs take when swiping other people's content as they distil hours and sometimes days of work into as little 30 minutes. In his piece 'The Death of Journalism (Gawker Edition)' , Ian Shapira writes about...
In the UK last week blogging outfit Shiny Media went into administration, but across the pond Nick Denton's Gawker is in rude health despite his apocalyptic predictions. Last Autumn Denton grabbed a few headlines when he said we should be preparing for a decline of up to 40% in advertising revenues...
With Shiny Media going into administration yesterday there is a timely piece in the FT today on blogs . Yes, they're big business in the US (its like the FT just noticed), but here start-ups have struggled to replicate the success of the Huffington Post and Gawker. Is the UK simply too small? We...
Big news at the Huffington Post with a $1.75m investment in investigative reporting signalling the continued expansion of blogs beyond linking and comment, but some are also wondering if this is at all connected to the thorny issue of content scraping and possible legal action? Content scraping is where...
Serious question as there is more talk about saving US newspapers and turning some of them into non-profit foundations. Staff at the San Francisco Chronicle are talking of a foundation bid for the paper (sort of like the Guardian) in an effort to save it with names like Craig Newmark floated as buyers...
Good piece in the New York Times today on how "the layoff will be blogged". It picks up on how this downturn is more public than any before it with bloggers covering not only each other's but their own departures as well. Oddly, and dispiritingly, some people are even reading about their...
You had better stop reading this as blogging is dead. Seriously, I just read it. Some wag at Wired says there is too much social media, and blogging is, like, so 2004. What rubbish. According to Paul Boutin, who writes for Silicon Valley gossip site Valleywag, writing a blog today isn't the bright...
It's the question of the year. Today there is a guy with a funny walk being shot at by Mr T in a 4x4. Before that it was Nike and its Dunkin' ad. Bob Garfield has got so fired up he wrote a letter about it to John Wren. Is it a storm in a tea-cup? Today we are talking about the Mr T Ad who shoots...
The Interactive Advertising Bureau in the US has released a major report ahead of a conference on user generated content and social media advertising. It kicks off with a claim that shows how radically the online landscape has changed this last two years when it says that if you're not on a social...
