wake up and smell the copy
Posted in blog, freelance, journalism, work, writing on Oct 12th, 2008
We’ve been doing a nice line in lazy blogging lately. My excuse is I’ve been swamped with freelance at the same time as work went crazy. I was trying to work tonight, but (sorry Dave) it’s just not happening. A couple of weeks back I wrote a post about the state of the economy, but [...]
Posted in internet, journalism, marketing, online journalism on Sep 2nd, 2008
An interesting post on Antony’s blog has drawn me into a thread about the commercials behind journalism. In essence, Roy Greenslade has challenged Philip M Stone’s “heretical thought” that papers return to print-first publishing, but he doesn’t suggest an alternative revenue model. Antony notes iCrossing’s experiments with new models of journalism. Meanwhile, Paul Bradshaw (in [...]
Posted in digression, journalism on Sep 1st, 2008
Happy one indeed, and big thanks to Handolio for doing all the hard work. He’s the Hackbash behemoth. I’m just the, um, moth. Personally I think we’ve done a good job of focussing on the original topic; working through the possibilities for real online journalism in a marketing environment. Now here’s a video of two [...]
Posted in journalism, technology on Aug 27th, 2008
Every now and then on the internet you come across some boring old bastard with an axe to grind about some company that’s pissed them off lately. This is that bastard, Orange is that company, here’s my axe: My mobile’s fucked*. I bought it from Orange, a customer of whose I’ve been since 1996 – [...]
Posted in journalism, marketing, online journalism, work on Aug 26th, 2008
I’ve been plagued of late by the creeping realisation that we’re a department of between four and six journalists, depending how you count it, in a company where 114-116 people aren’t journalists. Lately, we’ve been so busy trying to shore up our position that I wonder if we’ve taken our eyes off our craft just [...]
Posted in journalism on Aug 8th, 2008
Love this, from Response Source: Hmmm. Hint: if you need to ask, you want the button on the right.
Posted in journalism on Jul 25th, 2008
Everything’s been feeling just a little joyless of late. Tamsin has even been moved to ask if this is the Summer of Doom. Bugger me, I’m not arguing. I think I might have inspired the question. So, when AntonyM sent this link to Giles Coren’s latest tirade I could almost have kissed him. If you [...]
Posted in internet, journalism on Jul 11th, 2008
There were many factors involved in the epic Wimbledon final last weekend, but I hadn’t counted on the influence of the schedulers at the BBC. Many scheduled programmes, including the news, were shifted to BBC Two as the sporting drama unfolded, eventually resulting in Nadal’s win at 2130 BST.
Posted in journalism, marketing, work on Jul 8th, 2008
Nick, bless him, recently shored-up my self-esteem no end by posting Bill Hicks’ if anyone here is in advertising, or marketing, kill yourself routine. Hicks may be long gone, alas, but his spirit menaces iCrossing’s Content & Media department, proffering guns from a Yank friend at opportune moments. Truth be told, there are times when [...]
Posted in internet, journalism, online journalism on Jun 7th, 2008
I expect I’m not alone in noticing some entertaining needling between the Guardian and Telegraph in recent months, as the two scrap for first loser when it comes to web views – the BBC leads by a mile, The Mail snaps at their heels. No doubt it’s driven by valid concerns and genuine differences, the [...]
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