I had my first letter printed by The Guardian in September 2000, 4 days after my 25th birthday. Talk about the ultimate present. It was in the Weekend magazine; it was a response to an on-going joke in the letters pages…
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Ciarán Norris blogs about music, media and much ado about nothing
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At Least The New York Times Doesn’t Abuse Its Readers
It’s like stealing candy from a baby. Except, I don’t want to. I want the baby to grow up and, I don’t know, learn to eat its greens. Or something. Anyway. Earlier today, Alexia Tsotsis wrote a post on TechCrunch,…
No NLI, I Won’t Pay For These Links
I used to work in publishing. I know that copyright and unauthorised copying of content are big issues. And if people arw republishing your content wholesale, it’s only right to ask them to pay for the privilege. But that doesn’t mean…
The Paucity Of Tech Comment & Analysis
Last week SEOmoz announced that, after a couple of failed attempts, it had raised $18 million in funding. Now, I’m a fan, so I’m, biased, but to me this was a great story. A company that, to use the tech…
Tagged with: AllThingsD, Blogging, journalism, PandoDaily, Techcrunch, The Economist, The Guardian, The Kernel
Posted in Publishing
Posted in Publishing
All The News That’s Fit To Link
During the recent UK elections, The Guardian took to using a rolling-blog style of article to keep readers up-to-date with all the latest news around the campaign: in the frantic days during which the Tory/Lib Dem coalition came into being,…
The Real Reason Local Media Is Dying
If you read the media pages in any of the broadsheet papers you’ll undoubtedly read about the dire straits many local media groups find themselves in. They’re dropping like flies in the US and they’re not doing much better over…
The Guardian: The Scrooge Of SEO?
I am, as anyone who knows me would tell you, a massive fan of The Guardian. I get the paper delivered every Saturday (as well as The Observer, its sister paper, every Sunday). I have its Tech section set-as my…
How To Write A Daily Express Front Page Story
Via Stephen comes this “so true it’s scary” guide to Daily Express journalism from b3ta.
How Bauer Could Save (The) Face
I was idly browsing this afternoon and ended up on NME. Looking at the site of a magazine that, as a teenager, I bought religiously, made me think of a magazine I bought religiously for much of my 20s. The…
Tagged with: Holy Moly, Josh Spear, magazines, Popbitch, PSFK, relaunches, Sartorialist, The Face, websites
Posted in Publishing
Posted in Publishing
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