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The serendipity defence of magazines and newspapers is a myth

April 6th, 2009 · Comments

There are several reasons why the print editions of newspapers and magazines will continue for a while longer in there current forms before evolving into something new to survive alongside the increasingly dominent internet and mobile content networks.
But the serendipity argument isn’t one of them, despite the fact it’s so often wheeled out. Unfortunately, when [...]

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Tags: Digital Publishing

Twitter shakes the ground under major news websites: How they have to adapt

July 30th, 2008 · Comments

It’s happened again. Yet again, an earthquake has occurred, this time in the U.S. – and yet again I found out about it from Twitter as it happened, rather than from one of the news websites minutes later. In fact, I’d even reported on it, and uploaded an image from Twitter to 140char.com before the [...]

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Tags: journalism · twitter