The New York Times has given an update on its hyperlocal experiment and says that while the content is flowing it has "been harder to figure out the business model". In one of its regular Talk to The Times slots Jim Schachter, editor for digital initiatives, spoke about hyperlocals and the...
Fast Company takes a look at the hyperlocal market that everyone is watching, which some say is a multi-billion dollar future of online, but might not amount to anything much more than a sizeable pile of nickels. The projections say, according to Borrell Associates, that the hyperlocal market could ...
If I had any money here is what I wouldn't do: put it into a news website, and neither will many people in the US, where former newspaper journalists are struggling to find subscribers for their post print online ventures. My feeling is that you might as well flush it down the toilet with a smile...
Today's the big day for Digital Britain. The consultations have produced a very long wish list. I expect Ben Bradshaw will read out his in Parliament this afternoon. In a ‘simultaneous broadcast’ (how quaint) Lord Carter will be presenting the outcomes of his investigations into the state of Britain...
Anyone familiar with this brief? "We've been working on this for nearly a year, but we're not sure we've got anything good. You need to come up with a plan by next week that will save the world." Alright, it's not quite like that, but I was struck by the similarities between...
Fresh from the G20, so might be a bit of overclaim. Yet the ‘dodge-it-all’ bandwagon carries on apace, with #digitalbritain trending top on Twitter on Friday. Gordon gets digital, it says on the live feed twitter fail, lampooned so cruelly in the Telegraph . But the politicians aren’t saying very much...
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...
09:45 a.m. – Sly Bailey reiterates the theme of this year’s summit: Content, convergence, and creativity. Embracing and acting on these three fundamental ideas will ensure, (at least) a chance of survival in a world where traditional media copes with a transition into the digital realm without a tested...
09:40 a.m. - Nick HIgham takes the stage to give his opening remarks and introduce the first speaker, Sly Bailey CEO of Trinity Mirror. Higham laments that traditional media is “living in interesting times” due to the economic downturn, but for the time being online advertising seems to be weathering...
Not a snappy heading is it? but here are a couple of slides that show the impact on the most mature online recruitment market (I.T.) - and maybe there are some lessons to be learnt for general market innext few years. The commentary is that as IT sites like Jobserve , Jobsite grew in late 90s - the press...
