Digital revenue growth for news and information publishers is going in the right direction in the UK. But is it rising fast enough in regional news? Thinking big but not acting locally For example, Daily Mail & General Trust (DMGT) is making serious money online from Mail Online – £8 million in the six months [...]
I’m currently working on game based around a kind-of psycho-geographic version of the ‘six degrees of seperation’ idea. Basically, the game encourages players to (tenuously) link together Birmingham facts and myths. Here’s a version played on Google Wave before Christmas: [wave id='googlewave.com!w%252Bbh7I02lyA'] It was quite fun but as you can see it collapsed when we [...]
I recently headed off to the BBC to hear Nic Newman present his paper ‘The rise of social media and its impact on mainstream journalism’. They recorded the session so you might want to keep an eye on Reuters site for a better recording. You can right click ‘save target’ for the MP3 here or [...]
