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…
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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 would you stop Google indexing your news website?
Rupert Murdoch is quoted on the BBC News site today stating that search engines that index “news” are essentially stealing the right to reproduce that content within their own search results. “There’s a doctrine called ‘fair use’, which we believe…
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Posted in Digital Marketing, Web Technologies
Posted in Digital Marketing, Web Technologies
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 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.
