Ever wonder why people make twitter lists?Is it to categorise the people they follow or to streamline the timeline? Maybe those clever people who make twitter lists do so because they use apps like Flipboard? Flipboard allows you to take…
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iPad: Creator or Consumer of Content?
Can the iPad be a consumer and a creator of content? My iPad is not just a consumer of content it has proven time and time again to be a useful aid for creating content. For example I have installed…
Mobile apps will not save journalism
Last week something happened to me. I felt so compelled by the content of an article on the Belfast Telegraph website that I registered so I could comment. The articel in question is this one: “Can Mobile Apps Save Professional…
Journalism is free
News International have embarked on an interesting project: From June they will charge users to access The Times and Sunday Times websites a small fee to view content. “Readers will be offered a week’s subscription for £2, or a day’s…
The Guardian News App
The Guardian have recently released an iPhone App [iTunes Link] priced at £2.39 and for this small free they are promising to make news available to you on your iPhone for free. What’s more, the App offers off-line viewing, something…
Downsizing newspapers
The media industry seems to be in turmoil (like a lot of industries) due to its sheer size. Let’s face it, the average newspaper is massive, in terms of staff, in terms of sections/categories and in terms of archive material.…
More News Madness
Following up on my previous posts here and here, News Corp have inspired at least one other media group to erect a pay wall. Johnston Press websites will either ask users to pay £5 for a three-month subscription to read…
Why Newspapers have to adapt
I have long been interested in the publishing industry and it is no surprise to me that media groups and distributors are falling into the same trap that the music and film business fell into some time ago, mainly their…
The newspaper is dead. Long live the newspaper.
Being someone who has embraced digital content I fail to understand the love affair people have with paper. I’m not just talking about news papers, I mean books, print outs anything that involves physical copy. I just don’t get it. …
the death of newspapers
Michael Connelly has written an article detailing the publishing business’ lack of respect for books. Well book reviews to be exact, but this highlights another failure in the newspaper business, that is their failure to embrace online content and to…
Chris Taylor
Hi I'm Chris Taylor and I'm a web publisher from Belfast and you can find me all over the web (although I'm taking a break from twitter) at the sites below.
