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...
An historic election and a welcome historic victory for Barack Obama that was called online by some of the big political blogs and news sites before the US TV networks, which having been burned by exit polls in 2000 and 2004 took the cautious route. There's already been an avalanche written about...
Piece in the New York Times looking at Arianna Huffington and Tina Brown's competing blog/web ventures, which compares the two women to King Kong and Godzilla of the blogosphere. Compliment? I guess. Few snippets worth repeating: it values the three and a half year old Huffington Post or the HuffPo...
A little after the event, but as Norman Mailer wrote not too long ago "I'm beginning to see why one would want to write a blog". He might have been in his eighties when he started blogging, but he tried it like just about every other kind of writing. Although he didn't blog a great...
Last week, it was the Huffington Post. This week it's social news media site Newsvine, which has been snapped up by MSNBC.com. The hunger for social media in its many forms and the desire to mash that up with professional media shows no sign of stopping. The Huffington Post story was slightly different...
The Huffington Post is not exactly your run of the mill blog (it doesn't even like the lable), but it is a blog all the same and the fact that it has appointed a chief executive shows how it, and this aspect of Web 2.0 generally, is fast maturing and becoming an established part of the media landscape...
