Entries from August 2009

Friday, August 7th, 2009

Maybe we should make the BBC force us to pay for its web site

There’s a good piece on PaidContent.org about Rupert Murdoch’s plans to charge for News International’s web content. Part of this will be to charge for access to The Sun and the News of the World online. How will he manage to do this? “Just make our content better and differentiate it from other people. And I […]

Wednesday, August 5th, 2009

This could be Rotterdam or anywhere…

…as it seems that the Dutch, like everyone else in the developed world, can read a free copy of the Metro on their daily commute. The main difference? Fewer girls in bikinis…

Monday, August 3rd, 2009

New Stop Frame animation blog

I’m off to glamorous Rotterdam this week to do some stop frame animation with my good friend Arnold. He’s very talented (much more so than me), though obviously as he’s Dutch he’s a bit bonkers. Evidence of this can be found in his showreel here. As a result, journalism and digital media are probably not […]

Sunday, August 2nd, 2009

Facebook, teenagers, suicide

Apparently, social networking sites prevent teenagers from developing rounded relationships, makes them treat friendship as a commodity and helps drive them to suicide. It seems that Archbishop of Westminster Vincent Nichols is not a big fan of SMS and email, either. Friendship is not a commodity, friendship is something that is hard work and enduring […]