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[caption id="" align="alignright" width="158" caption="Small change guv'nor?"][/caption] I'm quite bemused at the reaction to the micropayments idea from many big names. Clay Shirky says: The threat from micropayments ...
The ugliest phrase in journalism at the moment is 'pay wall'. Isn't it just the worst possible way of describing what we want to achieve? ...
Once or twice during the typical football season, Cambridge United hold special discount days. Normally this will be something like all under-16s getting in for ...
When Murdoch says it's happening -- it's happening. No two ways about it. So when he says paid-for online news content is coming, then I think ...
It's May. And, tough as the journalism market is right now, it's about to get tougher. Journalism schools around the UK are about to spit ...
Right then, I'll get straight to it: The UK needs its own Huffington Post, and Piers Morgan is the only man for the job. Is there ...
There was always going to be a tipping point. A moment when a cut back meant no newspaper -- rather than just less subs. Or ...
Final Edition from Matthew Roberts on Vimeo.
They say hindsight is a glorious thing. When looking back, everyone can be an expert. Should have done this, shouldn't have done that. If you could ...
I've been doing some thinking about this whole NUJ thing. My post the other night reads very ranty -- indeed, I guess it is very ...
A colleague suggested to me today that I renew my NUJ membership. I've let mine lapse since my student days -- the £10 or so ...
Without wanting to seem flippant over this tragic story, I couldn't help notice something very strange on on the Daily Mail site today. Headline: Miss World ...
The Independent's Johann Hari has written a great piece blasting unpaid internships. I agree with every point he makes: This is happening all over Britain's professions. ...
Not really. Don't panic. Here's a great new blog following cancer stories in the Daily Mail: "A blog following the Daily Mail’s ongoing mission to divide all ...
Three reasons why this is great. 1) It's an embedded player -- many more people will watch it as a result. 2) It's unedited and raw -- ...
Here's some more Google-themed newspaper bailout ideas from Dan Froomkin writing for the brilliant Huffington Post. I guess calling it a bailout may be a little ...
Adrian Monck pointed me in the direction of this interesting interview with Google CEO Eric Schmidt. In it, he offers some matter-of-fact wisdom about the ...
Phewwww! There was me thinking newspapers had to work out how to get their arses in gear and get online properly. Turns out they don't ...
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20 practical and innovative ways to introduce micropayments for newspapers
A couple of posts ago, while pondering micropayments, I wrote "If my time at the BBC has taught me anything, it’s that ideas are worthless ...
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