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- The snail, the snail!
Tom Coates is back on form and - in the wake of the BBC’s All Your Base Belong to Us [?] announcements earlier in the week - is asking: “Is the pace of change really such a shock?“.
“My sense of these media organisations that use this argument of incredibly rapid technology change is that they’re [...]
- The “fuzzy front end” of innovation
This last bit of the MBA is, like many, heavy on heavy models and theoretical underpinning, as you’d expect. But through this abstract fog occasionally shines a particularly relevant bit of research that pulls dozens of strands of thought together.
Smith and Reinersten’s The Fuzzy Front End is such a bit of work. Put simply, it’s [...]
- MySpace as a click factory?
Mike Davidson has been doing some fascinating work on Myspace in recent weeks. First, the Newsvine boss delved into the site’s decidedly crufty guts to create his own, properly designed template.
Now, he’s done some analysis on the site’s usability, and the impact of that on the site’s remarkable page impression numbers.
His verdict: it’s a [...]
- Struggling with spam
Sorry to those who had their comments held in a queue for moderation… this was a side-effect of trying to deal with trackback spam, for which Typepad offers entirely inadequate tools. It’s impossible to globally turn off trackbacks without also doing the same for comments, and impossible to moderate trackbacks but not comments.
I can’t [...]
- Down
The depressing thing about relegation is that it’s not actually as devastating as you might imagine.
Sky Sports, always with an eye to the drama of the game, will mark the relegation of a side with a crash zoom in on some puffy-eyed, shaven headed ultra, wiping tears from his face with a tattooed arm and [...]
- We’re all technology managers now
Interesting stuff to report from the last bit of my MBA, which I’m revising this week for an exam on Tuesday (last one! After three and a half stricken years! Yay!).
The module is all about tech management, and the course material strongly supports the thought that media companies will have to become as adept [...]
- This is an April fool, right? Oh.
Probably not, as it turns out. In yet another example of how US big media is being firmly hoisted on the petard of its own insistence on impartiality, an ABC News producer has been suspended for expressing his private thoughts in an email.
ABC News suspended the executive producer of the weekend edition of “Good Morning [...]
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