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...
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...
It's a New York thing. Never has so much been written about one blog, as yet another long analysis appeared of media/celebrity slash slash whatever blog Gawker started by the former FT journalist Nick Denton a few years back and since spawned a blogging empire. Gawker is the blog that started back...