Unsurprisingly, journalism bloggers have been keen to jump on the relaunched Evening Standard as a topic for posting. (Surprisingly, I got in quite early – normally I’m days or weeks behind the curve). I wrote that the Standard could go for a local news aggregation model in a bid to offer something different, and attractive, […]
Like many Londoners – or at least near-Londoners – I picked up a gratis copy of the Evening Standard (now rebranded the London Evening Standard) out of curiosity about how it could reinvent itself as a viable paid-for paper in a world where people [a] get their news for free, and up to date, from TV, […]
Sad news from Condé Nast as it closes Portfolio magazine. I discovered Portfolio late last year when I stumbled on a dissection of the Wall Street collapse by Liar’s Poker author Michael Lewis. It was riveting and very well written – as you would expect, I guess. The reason for the closure seems to be plummeting ad […]
Having watched as shovelfuls of public money has been heaped on bankers and, lately in the US, should-be bankrupt car makers, a production editor friend and I joked that it would be nice to see the government bail out the ailing publishing industry. Unbelievably, it seems that this is actually being talked about in La-La […]
Curses: I’ve just discovered the 7,000-plus Dilbert strip archive on Scott Adams’ web site. This is a productivity disaster, of course, especially as I’m going to press. But I thought this strip about the recent spate of government bailouts was pretty much on the money. Now – if I can just navigate away before my […]
I find it strangely heartening that hedge fund manager John Paulson, who made billions betting successfully on the sub-prime debacle, bears an uncanny resemblance to ex-punk legend Hugh Cornwell, late of The Stranglers. Also, did you know Hugh Cornwell got a BA in Biochemistry from Bristol University? Nor did I. So why aren’t we seeing […]
So, ever-reliable blog fodder the Daily Mail believes social networking sites damage children’s brains. A selection of accurate criticism about the lack of evidence beyond one person’s opinion based on one anecdote can be found here in the comments to a Cafe Hayek post, so I won’t bother adding to that. But seriously – how […]
Pesto jumps on the castigate-corporate-excess bandwagon today [that’s BBC business editor Robert Peston, of course], with a post about RBS selling its private jet – one it was embarrassed to be caught owning a few years ago apparently. But while RBS makes a great target for, well, any criticism really, Peston completely misses the point […]
Of the blogs I read, I enjoy one from a blogger called Coyote in Arizona who periodically fisks journalists for being innumerate, with a very poor understanding of economics. One of his posts from last year took the local media to task for not questioning the dubious economic benefits of a publicly funded new sports […]