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Find the best radio stations – online

October 19th, 2009 · Comments

Finding the best radio station is obviously a subjective experience. Are you looking for a particular band or genre? Do you want somewhere with variety? And how on earth do you find the station that’s right for you as an individual without going through every stop on the dial and noting down what they play [...]

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Tags: absolute radio · data · radio

Nice feedback on my ALPSP presentation…

August 6th, 2009 · Comments

Always good to get some nice feedback…
‘Dan Thornton provided a particularly insightful introduction to online communities at a recent ALPSP seminar. The detailed analysis of the available options for publishing in its varied forms provided an exciting launch pad for the day itself and provided food for [...]

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Tags: Presentations · speaking

Is any magazine company leading the way digitally?

July 21st, 2009 · Comments

Does any magazine company have a clear strategy for their digital business? Viewing it from the outside, there seems even less chance of picking who will be successful in the future.
Dennis Publishing seemed to be leading the way with online mags Monkey, iGizmo and iMotor, but has gone on to buy The First Post and  [...]

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Tags: Digital Publishing

Ads and Paywalls won’t save newspapers and magazines

June 3rd, 2009 · Comments

Numerous newspapers and associations of publishers are discussing the topic of paywalls for specific content or entire sites in an attempt to ‘create value by beginning to charge for it’ in the words of the American Press Institute.
Sadly for that plan, it’s not 1998 or 1898, and I’m not sure how charging for something creates [...]

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Tags: Digital Publishing