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Report recommending ‘Google Tax’ seems rather confused

March 15th, 2010 · Comments

I’ve had to find time to try and make sense of the argument presented by The Commission of Inquiry into the Future of Civil Society, but going by an article on Paid Content, it’s going to be a fruitless task.
It seems that ‘Making Good Society’ will warn against recycled news and that the Government has [...]

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Tags: Digital Publishing · newspapers

Hi Newspapers – can I join the party?

December 4th, 2009 · Comments

Having spent a long time looking at, reading about, and experiencing firsthand the changes happening to print and digital mainstream media publishing, it’s a bit of a shock to find out I’ve gone down completely the wrong path.
Until now, I was siding with the view that complaining about Google ‘stealing’ the news and sending worthless [...]

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Johnston Press manage a Facebook facepalm moment…

July 2nd, 2009 · Comments

I honestly don’t know where to begin with this one. Paid Content UK has revealed Johnston Press is banning employee access to Facebook, requiring journalists to ask permission from their department head, and contact the IT department.
Apparently it’s due to Facebook comprising more than half of the company’s outbound internet traffic. (They’re by no means [...]

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The context is more important than ever…

June 23rd, 2009 · Comments

From what I’ve seen, I’ve not the only person in the world to mention the death of someone known globally as Neda. (NSFW and disturbing).
What interests me is that I’m looking for Western European journalists to either give me context – or to point me towards the people that can, via social media or broadcast [...]

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Tags: journalism · newspapers