Boom! Jonah Peretti gets to the heart of the social sharing phenomenon that is Buzzfeed. I highly recommend your first long read of the year to be David Rowan's piece in Wired magazine on the rise of Buzzfeed. It's jam-packed with great quotes that will bring you right up to speed with the state of … [Read more...]
Test dummy: here’s a browser version of my app
December 8, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Here's an interesting way to show off a builds for an IOS app design without actually running it as an app. It's called Kickfolio, runs in HTML5, and seems to me to offer added convenience in testing. That is, testers can be reached more efficiently on a wider platform and encouraged to leave … [Read more...]
27.9pc
October 22, 2012 by Leave a Comment
The average drop in circulation of British newspapers in five years, according to an analysis by the Currybet blog. A relative good news story compared to the 51pc circulation drop at Newsweek before it shut its print edition. … [Read more...]
Off a precipice: Newspaper ad revenue back to 1950s levels
September 19, 2012 by Leave a Comment
A sobering visual representation of the parlous state of ad revenue for newspapers in the US, with parallels in Europe and other old press markets (though not in Asian/Middle East... to be dealt with more fully in a later post). Henry Blodget in Business Insider comments more fully... … [Read more...]
Boom in the Silicon Savannah
August 26, 2012 by Leave a Comment
The new tech hub where mobile has leapfrogged computers, allowing for an explosion of growth in a pristine market, according to this article in the Economist An astonishing two thirds of Kenya's adults have used mobile money, the most in the world by a long shot. As Main Street USA comes round to … [Read more...]
The newspaper homepage is NOT the front page
August 23, 2012 by Leave a Comment
interesting piece pulling together some stats from some big papers ie WSJ et al on a Brand Republic affiliated blog showing how the majority of newspaper website traffic comes in sideways ie through search engines or social media, meaning that the homepage is much less the front page that it … [Read more...]
Digital ad spend overtakes print ad spend early!
August 23, 2012 by Leave a Comment
A watershed that experts and brand forecasters etc expected sometime next year has been reached ahead of schedule. The online ad market is now bigger than the print one, according to these global ad spending stats. Is it boiling frog time yet? … [Read more...]
The man who saw it all in 1992
August 23, 2012 by 1 Comment
Newspaper men started predicting the digital revolution with amazing accuracy as long ago as 1992, way before the internet got going properly. With that kind of notice, who knows where we might have been able to get to by now? Ahem, from the Washington Post's managing editor Robert Kaiser in … [Read more...]
How Forbes embraced the chaos
August 23, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Forbes business mag, the one with the lists and Republican leanings, is showing the rest of the press how it's done online, byembracing the chaos ie the bloggers. They set up a mini outpost on Wordpress - the New Newsroom -in which they curated bloggers, promoting them on its main sites and helping … [Read more...]
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