The Wall Blog » Craig Newmark http://wallblog.co.uk Social, marketing, media : blogged Tue, 21 May 2013 14:58:50 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 The idea of a £2 broadband tax to save quality newspapers is an idea out of time http://wallblog.co.uk/2012/09/24/the-idea-of-a-2-broadband-tax-to-save-quality-newspapers-is-an-idea-out-of-time/ http://wallblog.co.uk/2012/09/24/the-idea-of-a-2-broadband-tax-to-save-quality-newspapers-is-an-idea-out-of-time/#comments Mon, 24 Sep 2012 11:10:55 +0000 Rick Waghorn http://wordpress.hbpl.co.uk/wallblog/?p=32442 The Guardian’s open journalism as represented by the Three little pigs ad produced by BBHOn the 16th January, 2006, I read a ‘quality’ piece of journalism by David Watkins on the MediaGuardian website.

It was the day of my 40th birthday. It was a piece of ‘quality’ writing – of the kind, I guess, that David Leigh would charge me and my broadband provider £2 a month for – that would turn my world upside down.

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]]> http://wallblog.co.uk/2012/09/24/the-idea-of-a-2-broadband-tax-to-save-quality-newspapers-is-an-idea-out-of-time/feed/ 4 “When the going gets weird, the weird get professional” at SXSW http://wallblog.co.uk/2012/03/02/when-the-going-gets-weird-the-weird-get-professional/ http://wallblog.co.uk/2012/03/02/when-the-going-gets-weird-the-weird-get-professional/#comments Fri, 02 Mar 2012 10:51:38 +0000 Andrew Roberts http://wordpress.hbpl.co.uk/wallblog/index.php?p=24635 Ever wondered where Foursquare was launched, where Twitter hit the big time or where you can hear keynotes from the likes of Jimmy Wales, Guy Kawasaki, Craig Newmark, Evan Williams or even Mr Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, himself – well Austin, Texas is where it is at in March as SXSW comes to town.

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