Three fallacies of newspaper thinking (and how paywalls cracked…) May 21, 2010
Posted by Jonathan Hewett in : delicious links , add a commentThree fallacies of newspapers’ assumptions about online content, highlighted by a discussion of paywalls etc, summarised by William Owen of Made by Many:
1) the internet is free because of a mix of habit and a spurious moral right, and that if you can change habits and challenge morality we’ll go back to paying for content.
2) a newspaper’s competition is other newspapers.
3) nothing else changes, content is still just the end product of the publishing process.
Times Labs Blog February 27, 2009
Posted by Jonathan Hewett in : delicious links , add a commentSome nice examples on this Times Online blog of what online journalism can do, including interactive packages and creative visual representations.
The blog describes itself as "a space where we’ll be writing about innovations in web journalism, and sharing some of our own experiments".
Comment Central – Times Online – WBLG: Cristiano Ronaldo and Paris Hilton to sing Elvis songs on Celebrity Big Brother January 15, 2009
Posted by Jonathan Hewett in : delicious links , add a commentDaniel Finkelstein gets to grips with SEO: ??"Recently I posted on an deeply unnecessary BBC programme. The post was headed "Lindsay Lohan, the porn star and the BBC." A fellow blogger accused me of "Google whoring". I had to look up this phrase on the internet."