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The case of the disappearing Reed Elsevier blog
The Telegraph reports today that Reed Elsevier is packaging up an HP deal (ok, a loan) for potential buyers of Reed Business Information. The fate of RBI is a matter of academic interest to business watchers and – well, academics – but if you actually work there it’s a little more interesting. Like, ‘your livelihood’…
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CNN’s iReport – “I Report for CNN”
Guardian columnist Jack Schofield (a kind of digital Jack Hargreaves for people of my age) writes about CNN‘s iReport. Yes, any excuse to dust off this Jon Stewart classic:
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The BBC and presenter pay
So the BBC is cleared of paying too much for talent. Great word. Let’s try two older ones – public servants. The BBC is a public service broadcaster, so the standard by which its salaries should be judged is the UK public sector. The Prime Minister makes getting on for £190k. The Lord Chief Justice…
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Great unequal contests of our time: BBC vs. Google
Martin Belam writes one of those blogs I read so religiously I almost never bother to pass on what is actually written. Let me make up for it. Here is Martin addressing Ed Roussel‘s piece on the Guardian PDA blog (itself a kind of Christmas footie match given the Comment is Free/My Telegraph trench warfare):