Irish Times Buying Into Property Means What For Newspapers
The fact that the Irish Times paid 40 million Euro for online property site myhome.ie at the peak of a property bubble in Ireland is surprising until you take into account that the wildly successful Guardian Media group was also a bidder.
First let’s go behind the deal. Property buyers in Ireland are currently paying around […]
More on New Content Channels
Resisting the temptation to see the future as being a new world made up only of user generated content, Mediangler goes in search of new content initiatives even if they seem a little old fashioned.
I’m not entirely convinced that the video upload site has such a rosy future nor that clip content has a sustainable […]
Avoiding Content Aggregator Bias
Laurence Timms is developer on Chuquet one of a number of new blog aggregators and one that I’m enjoying using. Chuquet uses inbound links as a way of scoring the popularity of blog posts.
A familiar strategy so Laurence and I got to exchanging views on the inbuilt bias of today’s content aggregators.
Here’s my […]
New Content Kings Are Coming
I spent some of yesterday speaking with Gary Murray at Mixcast, Royce Dixon of Streetz iz Talking and Josh Berman at Soul Gorilla.
Royce and Josh run channels on Mixcast. Royce Dixon makes trhe kinds of documentaries that used to appear on mainstream TV - telling the stories of the marginalised.
Josh is part of […]
Dabble and Video Search, Media Organising and More
Dabble is about people describing, discovering and organizing video, wherever it’s found or hosted.
About Dabble | Dabble
That’s a short and sweet introduction to Dabble which has some powerful minds making video on the web searchable, organiseable and shareable.
Dabble CEO and founder is Mary Hodder, ex-Berkeley and an expert and advocate in social and aggregation software […]
Commercial Trends
I decided a new category is needed. A round up of a few items that should excite the revenue taste buds of content producers and aggregators. These are stored under commercial trends. This is not an attempt to compete with existing sources of knowledge on paid content but I do want to disentangle some […]
Net Neutrality
This paragraph from savetheinternet.com encapsulates the net neutrality issue better than anything I’ve read so far.
Congress is pushing a law that would abandon the Internet’s First Amendment — a principle called Network Neutrality that prevents companies like AT&T, Verizon and Comcast from deciding which Web sites work best for you — based on what site […]
Google Profits, But Where Are The Questions?
I looked around in vain for a blogger backlash to the news that Google’s profits keep on going up.
Google profits more than doubled in its second quarter, racking up net income of $721m, up from $343m a year earlier. “The opportunities before us really are unlimited at present,” Eric Schmidt, Google’s chief executive, told […]
The Pattern of New Content
If you sidestep the hype and the unbelievable mega numbers (the 30 billion MySpace hits last month) there are signs of the web being used for what five years ago we might have guessed would be its purpose, sidestepping the Hollywood studios and the TV channel commissioning editors.
The examples I’m thinking of - The Strand, […]
The BBC, The AngloSphere and the Future of Content
Guess when this came out?
The BBC’s Director-General Mark Thompson today outlined a new vision for programmes and content focused on ‘excellence’, plus radical plans for funding the ideas and transforming the BBC into a simpler, more agile and creative digital broadcaster.
BBC - Press Office - Mark Thompson unveils plans to transform BBC
Yes, nearly two years […]