adrian monck

Month: January 2007

  • Old media funding model hits virtual world

    Second Life apparently has its own newspaper – the AvaStar, from the Axel Springer group. Two editions are available online. How is it to be funded? Classifieds and ads. Has no-one told these guys about the Craig Newmark avatar waiting in the wings…

  • Daylife – quick review

    Just popped in for a quick look at new news site Daylife. Positive: Clean graphics look. Negative: The quotes are very machine made, making it feel cold and impersonal. My RSS feeds deliver so much more customization, so much quicker.

  • Gallup poll no cause for cheer…

    US: Decline in newspaper readership haltsThis is not good, it’s great news for any editor or manager in the newspaper business.It’s a Rocky Balboa-style comeback for U.S. old media, according to various upbeat interpretations of a recent poll survey. Gallup started doing the survey in 1995. The headlines over that period? Network news is the…

  • Saddam’s execution video 2

    Jeff Jarvis carries on the Saddam execution video debate here. Jeff is on the optimistic wing of the technology debate. This is some of what he has to say on the subject: We are in the age of news served raw. And it doesn’t get much rawer than the cell-phone video of Saddam Hussein’s execution…