Month: February 2008

  • Newspapers – slow and in denial

    I am a sucker for defunct browser maker Marc Andreessen’s hip-shooting style. Here he is giving both barrels to the New York Times. [HT: sans serif] Andreessen: Take the New York Times. They are slow and they are in denial. After 15 years of the Internet, their online division – though it has been very…

  • A dot on the BBC map of the world

    Enterprising young BBC journo Stuart Pinfold has produced a nice map showing how impressively broad is the BBC’s network of international coverage. Correspondents, reporters and stringers show up on the map as little dots and triangles. So what does it feel like to be a dot on the map: Funny that my name is on…

  • Transnational news traffic

    So is online helping British journalism colonise the US? FishbowlNY’s take on a Guardian piece certainly makes it look that way: # The Daily Mail saw online traffic increase 31% for Mail Online compared to 01/07.# The Guardian’s traffic increased by 25.5%.# Rupert Murdoch’s highbrow/lowbrow Times of London and The Sun saw traffic up 38%…

  • Off topic: laptops – now just bloody great big handsets

    The thing that has really revolutionised my MacBook in the past fortnight is a 3G USB modem. Inspired by tech whizz and City colleague Bill Thompson, I took advantage of a sudden price drop. £15 a month now buys me 3GB of access. If macs came with SIM cards, of course, I wouldn’t have to…