links for 2007-10-31
Posted on October 31, 2007
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Results released from Companies House on Monday show the privately controlled publisher lifted pre-tax profits from £361,000 ($743,750) in 2005 to £2.06m in the year to last December.
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The search giant recorded a total of $661m (£320m) in revenues from the UK between July and September, though the company hangs on to only 70% of this after handing money to partners. ITV has not published a quarterly breakdown of revenues, but it is tho
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More pain for The Scotsman and The Herald … “They are already giving readers and advertisers high-quality colour and greatly improved print values on newspapers that can reach the furthest corner of Scotland with late night news and sports.”
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He will develop, test and launch Trinity Mirror’s delivery of a range of content subscriptions services to mobiles. Mr Gleave will also be responsible for all telephone-based revenue activities including dating, astrology, information and voting phone lin
links for 2007-10-30
Posted on October 30, 2007
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The Semantic Web Goes Mainstream Radar Networks is unveiling a new tool that provides a smarter way to find information and increase productivity.
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Isn’t Google already the Google of News - “What if you could become the Amazon of news? The Google of news?”
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Some interesting stuff …
links for 2007-10-29
Posted on October 29, 2007
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Perhaps most worryingly for incumbent network operators is the way that Google has agitated hard for carriers to open up the airwaves to third-party devices and services, using the upcoming spectrum auction as its main weapon.
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Overview of P2P television
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I commend the Conservative party for making TV celebrity Kirstie Allsopp a housing spokesperson (’Meet the new Tory housing tsar’, News, last week). Anyone thrifty enough to save up all her pocket money to buy her first house at the age of just 19 sets an
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It is a form of convergence journalism, combining the quality, nostalgia and comfort of a print magazine with the technology of the Internet, enabling Blast Magazine to be a truly living, breathing magazine experience.
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With this newly expanded offering, 312 newspapers have been updated and 17 new titles have been added to the SmallTownPapers Collection accessible on the WorldVitalRecords website.
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The Seminary Library implemented MarkLogic Server to enhance the library’s existing browsing services with search and faceted navigation including the Web 2.0 concept of user-tagging. Based on a model of tag clouds, users apply key words to items in the d
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Research your keywords and general page properties from an seo point of view.. Shows your keyword density and placement (prominence). The tools features options to show the page’s headers, page elements, outgoing links and more. It will warn you when it d
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In other words, MTV Networks, the Viacom division that encompasses the MTV, VH1, and CMT brands as well as a host of other pop culture channels, is aiming to renew its focus on music by bringing lyrics to the forefront. This will begin rolling out in Nove
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FriendFeed makes it easy to keep track of the web pages, videos, music, and photos your friends and family interact with around the Internet. The site is currently in a private beta-testing period.
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In Understanding Knowledge as a Commons, experts from a range of disciplines discuss the knowledge commons in the digital era–how to conceptualize it, protect it, and build it.
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Interview with Sue Gardner of the Wikimedia Foundation
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Future Reading Digitization and its discontents by Anthony Grafton
links for 2007-10-28
Posted on October 28, 2007
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Great cartoon strips from derfcity.com
Posted on October 28, 2007
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I’d recommend a look at some of the great cartoon strips from www.derfcity.com - particularly like thise one on how Bush will seal the border and on a lighter note what people write on the dirty windows of Hummers.
links for 2007-10-27
Posted on October 27, 2007
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Some good analysis on Facebook / Ad Networks - I agree that the ads have to be a service to the user otherwise it will be difficult to make this work, The problem with all these competing networks is that some of them might be very poor.
links for 2007-10-26
Posted on October 26, 2007
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The service is live on around 220 Johnston newspaper websites so far. At some publishing centres, more than 60 per cent of people who place notices opt for the online extra.
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It added: “There are signs the Evening Standard circulation numbers are now stabilising and Eastern Europe offers a new route to growth. However, we have doubts over whether DMGT is choosing quantity over quality for its online sites and are structurally
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Meanwhile, it is said there was much doom and gloom from McGhee, with his warnings of ‘peril’ unless there are changes within what is a ‘terminal business of decline’.
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Looks like the race will heat up to sign/lock-in premium publishers - “As standalone companies DoubleClick and Google enhance competition, no doubt, but together they cover over 80% of the display market, this is very serious cause for worry.”
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# Of the 250 or so magazines measured by NRS, each title is read on average for a total of 50 minutes # 61% of readers of the average magazine spend 30 minutes or more reading it, with 34% spending an hour or more # A weekday (Monday-Friday) issue of a da
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According to the so-accurate-we-should-believe-them gossip newsletter Popbitch, the print version of long-running music paper NME is on its way up to the recycling bin up in the sky
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Meanwhile, the “value” of a print newspaper reader — measured by the revenue generated per reader, minus subscriber acquisition costs and other expenses of servicing him — has dropped even more precipitously than ad revenues. Each reader was worth $962
links for 2007-10-23
Posted on October 23, 2007
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Surprised they have gone ahead with this - “The British Library Newspapers Website, managed by Gale, will be launched on 22 October 2007, with 1,000,000 pages of content available for use by the FE and HE community in the United Kingdom” Includes list of
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The online digital archive will be available free to lecturers and students in higher and further education institutions and to British Library visitors with reader passes, who can access it from the library’s reading rooms in London’s Kings Cross.
links for 2007-10-22
Posted on October 22, 2007
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“First and foremost is the chance it provides to reach out to a yet wider readership. The Spectator is a highly respected political weekly which punches well above its weight, and its website has established itself very fast as a must-read on the net,” sh
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The Economist is planning to charge subscribers, and that, at least to begin with, its historical database will only be available to institutions. The Guardian and The Observer intend to charge £7.95 for 24 hours’ access, or £49.95 for a month. Surely t
links for 2007-10-15
Posted on October 15, 2007
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It’s our attempt to make news a bit more transparent and journalists a bit more accountable - on behalf of the public.
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Readers will be offered free 24-hour access during November, but after this trial period charging will be introduced.
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