A quote from AA Gill on the Ross/Brand affair
AA Gill wrote some excellent commentary in this week’s Sunday Times on the Ross/Brand affair and why they should stay at the BBC. On his motives he writes: if you think I’m only writing this because...
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Light at the end of the tunnel on “the island that went bust”
Peter Day has been spending some time in Iceland and has produced two excellent episodes of his In Business radio show from “the island that went bust” as he puts it. The first episode was Iceland...
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Pricing models for online newspapers revisited
Way back in January 2006 I blogged about the crazy model the Independent was using to charge for online content. At the time, for someone who wanted to follow, for example, Simon Carr’s columns online,...
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Dogma vs. data and the future of Free
Yesterday London’s main daily newspaper, The Evening Standard, reduced its price from 50p to zero. Libby Purves, who hosts Radio 4’s excellent Midweek, used the opportunity to weigh in on the Free...
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Time left to complete page: Not much
I have a love/hate relationship with the countdown displayed at the bottom of a user’s screen when purchasing tickets from Ticketmaster. On one hand it’s useful to know exactly when the page expires...
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Survey shows journalism has an online future after all (except in Denmark)
A photo taken over brunch in 2010, when me and the missus only paid for news if it was on paper. Three years later, there’s not a newspaper in sight during brunch. We have an iPad each and have joined...
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Startup ecosystems in London vs San Francisco – data from CrunchBase
Me posting a self-photo to our HipChat development channel from the Google Campus in October 2012. Super productive. This week’s Economist has an article, “Start Me Up“, on the progress made by...
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