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Sarah Brown visits Daily Mirror to guest edit supplement

Sarah Brown has guest edited a special edition of the Daily Mirror's supplement Your Life.The prime minister's wife popped in to the Daily Mirror yesterday to guest edit a supplement to mark the 100th International Women's Day. The eight page pullout appears on Monday and will include a feature...

Daily Mirror to Ministry of Justice: you gave our Jon Venables exclusive to PA

Tabloid accuses government press office of breaking protocol by releasing statement about killer of James BulgerThere's a lot of bad blood between the Daily Mirror and the Ministry of Justice press office over the Jon Venables story. Mirror sources say the paper was on to the story first, and contacted...

Independent deputy editor Ian Birrell leaves

Ian Birrell, the Independent's deputy editor for almost 12 years, is to leave. Former Daily Mail executive Birrell, who is shortlisted for columnist of the year in the British Press Awards, said: "I have hugely enjoyed working with some of the most talented journalists in Britain, but now feel the...

Tories would force town halls to disclose full cost of council newspapers

Shadow secretary for local government Caroline Spelman says councils need to be as transparent about costs as BBCThe Conservatives have promised to force local councils to publish how much they are spending on controversial council newspapers. The impact of these papers has sparked fierce debate in recent months, with Trinity...

Revolt at Johnston Press grows

The revolt over technology at Johnston Press, which has resulted in planned industrial action at the Blackpool Gazette and Herald newspapers, could spread nationwide. Oliver Luft reports in Press Gazette that National Union of Journalists staff from 13 chapels on daily, weekly and free Johnston Press newspapers in the Midlands...

The Daily Mail, the Tory donor and the escort girl

Just why has the Daily Mail been so fascinated with the incident over Christmas involving a Lithuanian escort girl and a Tory party donor?Back in January, Roy Greenslade pondered why what he termed a silly non-story had attracted acres of coverage. How curious, then, to note that the Crown Prosecution...

CyberJournalist.net

Shorty Awards given for best Twitterers

The second annual “Shorty Awards” were announced Wednesday night honoring the best producers of “short real-time content” on Twitter. Winners included Haitian radio host Carel Pedre, who used Twitter to inform the world about the recent earthquake, and Janis Krum, the ferry passenger who uploaded a picture on...

Seth Meyers jokes about social media

Saturday Night Live’s Seth Meyers shared some great social media zingers on Tuesday night in NYC at a special private event hosted by social marketing company Buddy Media. Some of the best one-liners included: “Magazines are what people used to advertise in.” (via zetgem) “Social media is how a 12 year...

Chart Porn

Chart Porn is a cool collection of interesting charts, tables, maps, and interactive data toys — with a focus on economics and graphic design – as the site says, “data visualizations you just gotta love.”...

Event ratings soar, and social media takes credit

SF Chronicle reports: “After years of dwindling ratings and increasingly fractured audiences, big event pop culture has made a comeback. Though there are particular reasons for each of these successes, one unifying theory is that social media networks are magnifying these audiences.” Read more....

Must-watch video: ‘Miracle’ Olympics hockey pre-game speech

Herb Brooks’ pre-game pep talk before the famous 1980 “Miracle” game against the Soviet Union. as performed by 4-year-old “Rizzo”...

Live video coverage of Chile earthquake

Moments after an 8.8 magnitude earthquake struck Chile early on Saturday, thousands of people logged on to Ustream to watch live video coverage of the aftermath and chat about it. Free video chat by Ustream...

yelvington.com

Continuing the participatory revolution

For years I've been pushing the idea of participatory journalism. If you've been thinking this is just theory, some more data has emerged that ought to get your attention: "According to Web measurement firm Compete Inc., Facebook has passed search-engine giant Google to become the top source for traffic to major...

Review: 'Drupal 6 JavaScript and jQuery'

Let's start with a confession: I don't like JavaScript. I don't like object notation and I don't like programming languages where whitespace (line enders) is significant. I cut my teeth on C, and I am suspicious of any deviation from its spartan truth. I also don't trust power windows and...

Looking for journogeeks

Life is change, and we've had some great people change their lives by leaving Morris DigitalWorks to take on new challenges in the Web consulting and development world. We're sad to see them go, but excited when they wind up working on cool projects like Whitehouse.gov. So we're looking to grow...

Blows against the empire: iPad, Chrome, HTML5 and Android

It hasn't been a good month for Microsoft. First Google with its Nexus One, then Apple with its iPad, have highlighted how its empire is in risk of falling, replaced by a new mobile world in which Microsoft is irrelevant. Most revolutions fail because the revolutionaries can't stay united. This one...

Regarding the iPad, I am Dr. Buzzkill

It's here. And I'm disappointed. It's not just that the iPad failed to live up to its hype (which was just short of ending world hunger, curing disease and raising the dead). It's that the iPad doesn't change the world, no matter how many times Steve Jobs says "advanced," "revolutionary,"...

Drupalization of Augusta

The new Augusta Chronicle website is now live, the latest in a series of conversions of Morris websites to a Drupal-based system. Before and after As I mentioned last week, there's a companion mobile-optimized site for smartphones, and if the browser detection is working properly, you'll go to http://m.chronicle.augusta.com/latest-news/2010-01-27/apple-introduces-s... automatically...

Teaching Online Journalism

Spending time with Los Angeles homicides

Have you seen the L.A. Times homicides map? I’m sure you’ve marveled at the New York Times homicides map, and perhaps you have also admired the Boston Globe homicides map. The L.A. map, however, has a lot (a lot!) of fine features that the others lack. One of my students wrote...

Recommendation for a low-end video camera

Read the review of the Kodak Zi8 by Derrick Jeror — at Amazon.com. Then read the 69 comments on his review (or at least scan them). This is an extremely helpful review — it explains how to get the best sound quality for interviews and the best battery life, etc., from...

3,000 followers on Twitter

Last March I had 1,000 followers on Twitter. Sometime earlier today, I reached 3,000: I’m sure many of those folks have not signed on to Twitter since the week when they opened their account. so I’m not going to throw a party or anything. And Jay Rosen, who teaches journalism at...

Updating Flash Journalism (Part 2)

The other day I received an e-mail from someone with a programming background who’s interested in learning how to build journalism packages in Flash. He asked how to get started and whether I was planning to release a new edition of my 2005 book Flash Journalism: How to Create Multimedia...

Ideas for journalism educators

I gave a couple of presentations to U.S. journalism educators in St. Petersburg, Florida, yesterday and today. For each presentation I made a page of links to resources, examples, etc. The PowerPoint for each presentation is also online. Blogs and Journalism This presentation surveys the ways in which professional journalists are using...

Thoughts about video editing software

One of the ongoing challenges in teaching journalism nowadays concerns the choice of software for video editing. I’m going to pump out a brief overview here and hope that lots of people will weigh in with their own experiences and suggestions. The more the merrier! First, an outline of the programs...

The Long Tail

Hiatus

This blog is on hiatus, but you can follow me on Twitter and at DIY Drones, where I’m posting daily. I’ll use this blog for occasional longer pieces that don’t fit either of those two other spots....

The Long Tail of Travel

For a recent speech to a travel company, we pulled together some data on the changing shape of travel due to low-cost carriers, online travel information and social-media driven word of mouth taking tourists beyond the usual top destinations. As......

Is this how the singularity happens?

This was one of those freaky moments when the future sneaks up and smacks you. I was on a plane earlier this week and took a break from work to watch the movie while they served dinner. It was Terminator......

Netflix data shows shifting demand down the Long Tail

A team at Wharton did some Long Tail analysis on the Netflix ratings data the company released for its Netflix Prize. Although I don’t agree with many of the conclusions in their paper (like some other academics, they got confused......

A New York Times Bestseller!

If you checked out today’s New York Times Book Review section, you’ll see that FREE made the list in its first week of eligibility. It’s #12, tied for #11 (that’s what that little asterisk means). We expect it to dip......

FREE on the Kindle (free); get it while it lasts!

You can get FREE free on the Kindle (and Kindle iPhone app if you don’t have a Kindle) now. It’s been up for a few days and the free offer will end on Wed, Jul 22nd, so get it now.......

Recovering Journalist

A Snow News Week

My Sunday Washington Post still hasn't been delivered. It's been four days now. But I'm not complaining. Washington has been buried his week in a snowfall of biblical proportions. You may have heard about it—it's been in all the papers.......

Newsday's Unconventional Subscription Model

When Newsday announced last spring that it was contemplating putting its Web site behind a paywall, I wrote a scathing critique of the idea. I was wrong. Newsday, as it happens, is in a unique position, and is taking advantage......

And Verily, Steve Jobs Came Down from the Mountaintop With a Tablet, and It Was Good (But Version 2 Will be Better)

After all the fevered buildup, we now know the actual details of Apple's iPad tablet. Probably not surprisingly, it doesn't quite live up to all of the pre-release hype and speculation (including my own). But it still appears to be......

Visionaries in Action

Two of the smartest thinkers—and good guys—in new media just got important new jobs. John Temple, who's practically been born again as an advocate for new models for journalism and the news business since the Rocky Mountain News got shot......

Apple's Tabula Rasa

As the new year rolls in, the talk of the tech world is Apple's allegedly upcoming tablet computer. The New York Times has even dubbed 2010 as "the year of the tablet." Sites and publications that cover Apple and the......

Rupert, The Grinch and Google

This is frickin' brilliant. (Hat tip to Jeff Jarvis, and a deep bow to the author, AOL DailyFinance's Sam Gustin.) Then he got an idea! An awful idea! The Grinch got a wonderful, awful idea! "I know just what to......

Meranda Writes

Why I’m going to give Google Buzz time

While I’ve been busy covering millions of dollars in budget cuts this week, otherwise known as doing my day job, the Internet has been abuzz itself, over Google Buzz. (Apologies for the pun.) I haven’t had time to thoroughly check it out, but most of the posts from my network so...

Who really loses in a News Corp./Bing deal?

I’m not a business person. That’s obvious. But I’ve read recently about how News Corp./Rubert Murdoch are in talks with Microsoft to have the new Bing search engine be its sole way of searching for content from the Wall Street Journal etc. Here’s the most recent Business Week article for...

What I’ve learned two months into a 10-month series

You know it’s bad when even your boyfriend, who is not a journalist, keeps telling you that you need to update your blog. My last update was the end of July, so I didn’t want September to slip completely by, as August did, without any updates. I also want to update...

My paper is hiring a reporter and a copy editor

Now that you’ve gotten over the initial shock everyone seems to have upon hearing any newspaper is hiring these days, let me give you the details. My newspaper, the Journal & Courier in Lafayette, Indiana, is hiring a new city/general assignment reporter and a new copy editor. Both are full-time jobs...

Embarking on a 10-month project *gulp*

On Friday, my editor, the projects editor and I finally finished developing the budget for a story I first pitched in May. Yes, it’s almost August. But this isn’t just any story. I’m more excited about this story, or rather the series of stories, than I have ever been about a...

QOTD: … decide that you are not going to stay where you are

“The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are.”—John Pierpont Morgan...

Institute for Analytic Journalism

How 'bout a new term: "NewsViz"?

 Many of us are commonly using the term "data visualization" or "dataviz" or even "infoviz."  Perhaps we should add to the lexicon "newsviz."  If so, you saw it here first.  Maybe.  In any event, check out this interesting page at Slate. News Dots: The Day's Events as...

Open Source Maps Are Helping the World Bank Save Lives in Haiti

From FastCompany: Open Source Maps Are Helping the World Bank Save Lives in Haiti BY ANYA KAMENETZFri Feb 19, 2010 An aid worker from the European Commission holds a PDF printout from OpenStreetMaps. ...

"2009 Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge Winners Announced"

Press Release 10-028 2009 Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge Winners Announced http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_images.jsp?cntn_id=116369&org=NSF Winning entries appear in the Feb. 19 issue of Science "Branching Morphogenesis" aims to reveal--through abstraction--the unseen beauty and dynamic relationships that exist between endothelial cells and their surrounding extracellular microenvironment. Movies of networking endothelial cells cultured on a 3-D matrix were...

"2009 Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge Winners Announced"

Press Release 10-028 2009 Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge Winners Announced http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_images.jsp?cntn_id=116369&org=NSF Winning entries appear in the Feb. 19 issue of Science "Branching Morphogenesis" aims to reveal--through abstraction--the unseen beauty and dynamic relationships that exist between endothelial cells and their surrounding extracellular microenvironment. Movies of networking endothelial cells cultured on a 3-D matrix were...

Review: The Wall Street Journal Guide to Information Graphics

From FlowingData:   Review: The Wall Street Journal Guide to Information Graphics Feb 18, 2010 / Infographics, Reviews / Add your comment Add another book to the growing library of guides on how to make information graphics the right way. Dona M. Wong, former graphics director of The Wall Street Journal and now...

"Predicting the Next Enron"

Thanks to Steve Doig for the pointer: Freakonomics - New York Times Blog February 17, 2010, 3:00 pm Predicting the Next Enron By FREAKONOMICS Via the Wall Street Journal, here’s further evidence that companies “tweak” quarterly earnings numbers. Joseph Grundfest and Nadya Malenko analyzed almost half a million earnings reports from 1980-2006. They discovered that...

Topix Weblog

Topix Clears 100,000,000 Comments

Freedom of the press is limited to those who own one A.J. Liebling We launched our commentary system at the end of 2005, by giving people not only the ability to comment on the headlines we aggregated here at Topix,......

Welcome to the Neighborhood, Redux.

I'm always happy to see media attention being paid to hyperlocal news. But who the hell decided that Suburban New Jersey was the reference standard for local news? Just because you live nearby, Mr. New York media guy, does NOT......

Stay Connected with the Topix Toolbar

Today, Topix launched its new community toolbar, powered by Conduit. Never miss a reply to your comments. Stay on top of the latest news for your town. Grab the most popular headlines and Top Stories. Right in your browser. Already......

Sparta Tennessee Cop Investigated for Fake Subpoena

We really love local news. We see ourselves at Topix as part of the local ecosystem of news and community, especially in towns which have a lot of usage (We have nearly a million daily page views in Tennessee, mainly......

Topix launches local news iPhone app

Today, Topix launched its first iPhone app, the Topix Aura. With in-depth coverage nationwide, Topix Aura dynamically updates local information based on your GPS location or saved ZIP code. You can easily browse a stream of the latest local information,......

Thumbs Up for Topix at SXSW

It’s that time again. Time to cast your vote, make yourself heard, and decide the agenda for the 2010 SXSW Interactive Conference. Last year, Chris Tolles moderated a lively panel on User Generated Content. LA Weekly wrote a great......

Journalism News

Ryerson racism probe not fair: critics

A report on racism at Ryerson has been criticized for taking incidents out of context and relying on personal stories of discrimination....

Star Tribune, Post-Bulletin win Premack awards

The Star Tribune of Minneapolis and the Rochester Post-Bulletin are among the winners of the prestigious 2009 Frank Premack Public Affairs Journalism Awards....

Danish news staff reject apology for Muhammad cartoon

In this file photo, Danish daily newspaper Politiken editor Toeger Seidenfaden, left, shakes hands with Saudi Arabian Lawyer Faisal Yamani during their meeting in London on Thursday Feb....

Journalists apologise after desecration

A MALAYSIAN Muslim magazine issued an apology after two of its journalists joined a Catholic service and allegedly desecrated the communion wafer....

LA Times sells front page

THE Los Angeles Times' critic may have panned the film, but that didn't stop Disney from paying top dollar to turn the newspaper's front page into a special advertisement on Friday for the new movie, Alice in Wonderland....

Afghanistan ban on live coverage of Taliban attacks sparks swift criticism

The ban appears to apply to domestic and international news organisations, although the country's intelligence agency refused to provide details....

blog maverick

Seth Godin Should Read His Own Book

I was really surprised to see an entry in my icerocket.com feed from Seth Godin saying that “ Mark Cuban Is Completely Wrong About Aggregators I was particularly surprised because I am in the middle of reading his new book LinchPin which actually makes my point about why its a poor...

Why Have So Many Internet People Lost Touch With Reality ?

Sometimes its hard to tell if people are trying to be funny, mean, interesting, provocative or are just plain stupid or completely out of touch with reality.  I know I get accused of being all of the above all the time. The other day in New York I gave a speech...

Why Google is Bad for the Newspaper Business

One of the key core competencies of a publication is the process of selecting “all the news thats fit to print”. No one can read every news story.  Instead of even trying to consume everything, we all have a process we go through for discovery of news, information and topics of...

The Simplicity Test: A Simple Policy Guide for Job Growth

The simplest way to create more jobs is to allow small business and entrepreneurs  to  spend less time and money on lawyers and accountants and redirect that intellectual and financial capital to the core competencies of their business. Any new government policy that requires the hiring of lawyers and accountants will...

Talking the IPad, Kids, Making Money and Video

I cant wait to get my hands on the IPad. Its going to be a HUGE hit. You can book it right now that it will be the product that kids of this generation grow up with and look back on with affection just like we did with the first video...

Why are we condemning Jeff Zucker & NBC over Leno ?

If you want to know why its going to take longer than people hope or expect to get out this great recession, look no further than media and corporate response to Jeff Zuckers move of Jay Leno to primetime. What Zucker and NBC did was the EXACT RIGHT MOVE. Business environments change....

Boston Globe -- Scott Kirsner columns

Tracking the game, and the athlete

Highlights from Scott Kirsner’s Innovation Economy blog. For the full blog, updated daily, visit www.boston.com/innovation. ...

Chasing success on a shoestring

Earlier this month, Stuart Nixdorff flew to Barcelona for the European launch of a new Bluetooth mobile phone headset his company had developed for Apple Inc.’s iPhone. ...

Start-up plans to offer a who-what-where-when look down the road

Highlights from Scott Kirsner’s Innovation Economy blog. For the full blog, updated daily, visit www .boston.com/innovation. ...

A Freedom Trail of innovation

Highlights from Scott Kirsner’s Innovation Economy blog. For the full blog, updated daily, visit www .boston.com/innovation. ...

While world-changing technology may take time to develop, patience can pay off for investors

Ray Stata is not a proponent of the splashy, overnight success. Over almost 45 years, he has helped build Norwood-based Analog Devices Inc. into an 8,500-person company with an $8 billion market cap, supplying essential signal-processing chips that power LCD televisions, digital cameras, and mobile phones. And as an investor...

In search of home runs

Highlights from Scott Kirsner’s Innovation Economy blog. For the full blog, updated daily, visit www.boston.com/innovation . ...

Editors Weblog

Tablets: the iPad's coming April 3, Sony's looking at similar devices

The date has been set for the release of Apple's iPad in the US: the first Wi-Fi only version will be shipped on 3 April, slightly later than the time period that was initially specified, possibly due to manufacturing difficulties.......

AP announcement to stream Oscars award ceremony live raises questions over best "streaming coverage" practices

The recent announcement that The Associated Press, in coordination with Livestream, will provide live streaming coverage of 82nd Academy Awards represents a growing trend in news coverage. The segment, called AP Live "Oscars Red Carpet," will embed live footage with......

FBI's decision threatens the future of investigative reporting into civil rights

In a recent Washington Post article the FBI announced its decision to close all but a few of the most promising cases of the 108 cold case murders from the civil rights era. The Post's story led The Civil Rights......

El Mundo to launch premium paid service for online and mobile

El Mundo is to launch a paid service for reading its content online or on a smartphone, Agence France-Presse reported. The Spanish daily's standard website - which is the world's most visited Spanish-language news site - will remain free, however.......

Fairfax looks for digital director as part of overhaul

As Fairfax Media restructures, adding a digital director with wide-ranging media experience is essential for the Australian media group's renewal, board chairman Roger Corbett told The Australian this week.Corbett said he is talking to potential hires who will help strengthen......

GlobalPost's new free iPhone app

International news outlet GlobalPost has released a free iPhone app. The news service, launched in January 2009, was founded to fill the gaps in international reporting that it feared were appearing as traditional media outlets cut down on foreign correspondents.......

Advertising Age - Adages Blog

RangTang Vodka Tainted by Slang Definition

There are few harder jobs in the marketing business these days than coming up with new names for citrus-flavored vodkas. But Proximo's made-up word turns out not to be new -- and has an unseemly heritage. ...

GM Recalls 1.3 Million Cars, Prompting No Outcry From Anyone

Everyone from Aunt Sally to Congress jumping on Toyota's case about its current recall. Those evil Japanese car companies are trying to kill innocent Americans! And Mr. Toyoda didn't answer to Congress' liking! And every single crisis-communications company sent out press releases with advice (much of it contradictory). So what...

Jim Stengel: Great American Hero

Jim Stengel may no longer be a master of the marketing universe capable of leaping the tall $8 billionish ad budget of Procter & Gamble Co. in a single bound, but he can still pry open stuck elevator doors with his bare hands. ...

Review: Jamba Juice Gives Chai a Try

Jamba Juice, anxious to divert breakfast-time business from Starbucks, is launching hot chai beverages today. It asked Ad Age's Chicago bureau to give it a taste, along with a tart cherry scone. ...

Stupid Super Bowl Tricks Creep Into Oscars

Listen up. Your cheap ploys to get media coverage might work on TV news outlets and tabloids, but we're not buying it. In fact, we're so not buying it, we're not even going to name your client. ...

MillerCoors and Diageo Make March Madness All About Models

MillerCoors and Diageo, looking to tap into the excitement of next month's NCAA basketball tournament, seem to have settled on a common approach: babes and brackets. ...

David Nordfors's Blogs

IJ-7 Academic Track

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IJ-7 The Seventh Conference on InJo

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IJ-6 Academic Track

The Academic Track of IJ-6, the Sixth Conference on Innovation Journalism...

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IJ-6 The Sixth Conference on Innovation Journalism

Main site of IJ-6 The Sixth Conference on Innovation Journalism, Stanford University May 18-20 2009. Organized by the VINNOVA Stanford Research Center of Innovation Journalism...

The Evolving Newsroom

Iceland journalism haven, Wikileaks needs cash

This could turn out to be interesting. In a post on the Guardian’s Organ Grinder blog the editor of Wikileaks Julian Assange talks about how Iceland could become a journalism haven. I’m excited about what is happening in Iceland, which has started to see the world in a new way after its...

New journalism course, new students, new job

For the past few months I’ve been working to make the National Diploma in Journalism, a New Zealand industry standard qualification, available for online study through Wintec. It’s a big project which has demanded a lot of work by a core group of people and which has also involved a...

Why I’ve launched allaboutthestory.com #1

I wrote a few weeks ago to say that I was launching an online marketplace for news features and other stories. It’s called All About The Story, it’s in beta and it’s off to a great start. I said I’d write more about why we’re doing it and the people behind...

Link wrap: ‘content farms’ and tweeting trials

A few things that crossed my radar recently. A rant about the failings of tech news and the (lack of) incentives causing it. From louisgray.com. I believe “fast food news” also can refer to the mass hysteria over making sure every site posts the news that a major browser or a major...

Who loves Google, who doesn’t, and other stories

Axel Springer in Germany likes Google and wants to build a one-click option for readers to pay for news: Instead of separate pay walls around individual newspaper Web sites, Mr. [Christoph] Keese [Springer’s head of public affairs] wants publishers and Internet companies to work together to create a “one-click marketplace...

Headlines in my inbox often tell me nothing

I was struck the other day by the difference a good headline can make in a news email bulletin. Here’s a few from from my inbox in the past couple of days: I subscribe to more news than I can handle and am often in a hurry or tired when I...

New Media Trends

Jon Lund is no longer blogging here at newmediatrends

The first of July Jon Lund stopped at FDIM (IAB Denmark) to start up his own consultancy in his own name.  Therefore Jon Lund will no longer be blogging here at Newmediatrends.fdim.dk.  Instead Jon Lund blogs at his new website www.jon-lund.com....

Breaking news: Internet number ONE advertising mediagroup in Denmark

Internet beat both daily newspaper, tv and radio as advertising medium in Denmark in 2008. With revenues of euro 392,7 million, Internet cut out a 21 percent-slice of the total Danish adspend-pie of euro 1,9 billion. Daily newspapers accounted for 19 percent, weekly local and regional newspapers for 18 percent, TV for 17...

Facebook killed the blog

Tonight my worst suspicions were confirmed: Facebook really killed the blog. Look for yourself what Google has to say on the subject when asking politely (top 5 search results): “all my friends that used to blog no longer are. They’re all posting one line statements of what they’re doing on FB....

Wrap-up: The Danish Free Newspaper War in a “Free” perspective

This Tuesday Chris Anderson and I discussed his new book “Free” (scheduled for release in July). The book is about why and how the ever-declining costs of storage, bandwidth and processing power leads digital goods and services to a new modus operandi in which marginal costs of producing and selling...

Apple countdown: App # 1 billion to be downloaded tomorrow

The success of the Apples App-store (from which you can dowload applications to your iPhone) has taken the world - and Nokia, Ericsson, Samsung and the lot of competitors - by surprise. Launched only some 8 months ago, Apple now gears up to celebrate download number 1 billion....

TDC reduces churn by 50 percent by giving away music for free

A few days before the one year anniversary of the world first give-customers-free-access-to-all-music (2 mio tracks from all major record-labels), Danish telco TDC reveals the rationale behind the groundbreaking move labeled “Play”. Figures revealed today by TDC ceo Jesper Theill Eriksen at the Tele2009-conference shows that churn – that is...

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