I recently had the pleasure to visit the National Media Museum in Bradford. With time to kill before my meeting I looked around the exhibits spending time in the TV gallery. Learning about how television is created and broadcast was great to see, but what captivated me was the classic ads section. Read More
Johann Hari, the redoubtable Independent journalist and campaigner, has turned up on US current affairs programme highlighting once again the issue of extremely poor working conditions among Chinese factory workers – particularly those working to make Apple’s iPads and iPhones.
Here’s a clip: well worth a watch (and not because the host, Dylan Ratigan, mysteriously refers to his iPhone as “this bugger” in the first 30 seconds or so). Read More
From The Lounge Group : Okay he doesn’t, but for $510 he will for 90 days. Or if I pay $2,325 : Justin Bieber will follow you on Twitter for a minimum of 90 days, will retweet one of your tweets and will send out a tweet including your @twitterhandle
That’s nice. However if you aren’t some easily-mind-controlled-bad-music-choosing-ten-year-old, you can choose to pay a multitude of celebrities for the same package here
Big news from News International. It has confirmed its paywall for the News of the World will go live next month.
News International are making it cheaper than The Times with plans to charge £1 a day or £1.99 for four week’s access to the News of the World’s website. Read More
Potential Facebook competitor, Diaspora has just posted details on their blog, revealing what the site actually looks like. This is the first glimpse of actual page layout that we have seen so far – and it looks promising.
Colourlovers has followed its colours of the social web infographic (how blue was that?) with this wonderful creation – a visualisation of the colours of the world wide web. It’s also as Bob might have said tangled up in blue.
It turns out it is not simply down to to the default colours of Facebook and Twitter as seen in the social web. There are a ton of blue brands out there — particularly in the tech space: Dell, AOL, IBM, HP, EA and LinkedIn among many others. They are the dominant species. Read More
This has been under the radar. Two companies in Sir Martin Sorrell’s WPP Group are working together on a paid content initiative (don’t call it a paywall), called The Content Project (TCP).
It hopes to create a network of publishers who will offer readers an electronic wallet for buying content across a range of sites. Read More
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