Sunday is a quiet day for blogs. It’s the day of the week you write posts comparing internet startups to sexually transmitted diseases in order to boost traffic. For newspapers, Sunday is generally the biggest day of the week. It’s the day you unveil your agenda-changing stories; scandals, major investigatons and the like.
That is unless [...]
If you’re a web user outside the USA you may well have been in the following situation. You find a site that has an embedded video clip. “Watch this clip – it’s brilliant!” says the page author, so you click ‘Play’ and instead of a video you’re greeted by a message that says something like [...]
“I came away from the M.E.N.’s offices last night with a feeling of optimism for the future of those news outlets that can adapt properly to the new landscape“.
Those are the words I closed this post with in September last year. I’d visited the offices of my local newspaper, the Manchester Evening News, and been [...]
While many areas of the print media are suffering in the current economic climate, weekly celebrity magazines continue to sell well. They may be pretty light on substance (”Is Jennifer Aniston pregnant?” they repeatedly ask on their covers – look inside and you’ll find lots of photos and no answers) and occasionally tactless (OK recently [...]
While parts of the world are aiming for super-fast internet connections way beyond most people’s imaginations, our sights are set much lower here in the UK. South Korea is aiming for insanely fast 1 Gigabit connections within the next three years while our government is struggling to get everyone up to a pedestrian 2 Megabits [...]
The UK radio market is in a state of flux. Ask an optimist and they’ll say it’s just ‘adjusting’ to the recession-hit economy. Ask a pessimist and they’ll say that radio is in terminal decline. As advertising revenues from traditional radio fall, station bosses at commercial stations are cutting corners by ditching presenters and networking [...]
Amongst all the dross on TV over Christmas there were some real gems. BBC One’s Christmas Day evening lineup was particularly good. I ended up watching it from Doctor Who at 6pm right through to the end of the Blackadder documentary at 11.30. The problem is that it isn’t always Christmas and now we’re into [...]
It’s a common grumble up and down the country at this time of year – “Christmas TV isn’t what it used to be”. I’m the same – every December I buy the Christmas issue of the Radio Times and flick through, tutting at page after page of abysmal programmes. “Not that film again!” “I see [...]
UK-based production company Ragdoll have spent 24 years perfecting the art of preschool TV. From Pob’s Programme and Rosie & Jim through to The Teletubbies they’ve captured the imaginations of millions of children around the world time and again with their thorough understanding of young children’s minds. While many people complained about Pob or Tinky-Winky’s [...]
As the recorded music industry struggles to turn around from the rampant piracy that has seen a vast decline in sales over the past few years, sales video games have been on the rise. It seems that UK sales of games will exceed sales of music and video this year. With games becoming [...]
