Newsweek clearly wanted to make Sarah Palin look at bit of an idiot with its cover that some are calling sexist, but it looks to have had the reverse affect and is whipping up support for the Republican from Alaska who shoots stuff and is looking to run for president in 2012. Newsweek apparently wants...
A Huffington Post style start-up news site is up and running in Germany with plans later for an English version apparently in the pipeline. Techcrunch reports that German Web 2.0 figure Lukasz Gadowski , who was previously behind online t-shirt firm Spreadshirt.com, is one of those behind online publishing...
More evidence if you needed it of how powerful Facebook Connect can be from HuffingtonPost.com, which has used it to help recently surpass WashingtonPost.com. I was looking at it recently as part of our social media strategy and how we might use it and while HuffingtonPost.com is in a league of its own...
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...
On Wired.com, Andrew Exum is wondering all about Iran and the explosive use of social media to organise, agitate and protest in Iran. He's wondering how real it all is? And if it is the technological enabled few rather than the digitally deprived masses. He wrote: "Are we simply finding common...
Don't know much about former MSNBC and now Fox personality Tucker Carlson, but he launching a site called DailyCaller.com to take on the HuffingtonPost.com and Tina Brown's Daily Beast. Report earlier this week in the Wall Street Journal that says pundit Carlson will launch a "conservative...
Not many tears will be shed over the departure of Derek Draper as editor of LabourList, but his exit leaves the Labour Party with a question that can not be easily answered. The Today Programme this morning called the blogosphere "the Tories' most potent weapon" and it is right, but in...
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...
A sad day for newspapers as Hearst closes the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and takes it online, but what it plans online, with efforts to create a community title, could be the model for the future. I blogged last week about the woes of the top 25 US newspapers and how the future is shaping up to become...
The stark facts are that of the top 25 US newspapers 21 have seen their circulations fall since 1990 and only four have seen it rise. Most of those falls have been in double digits and 10 have seen it fall by around 40% or more. Take a look at the list for yourself. The four titles in bold are the only...
