Critics take a swipe at Chris Anderson’s new book
Chris Anderson is not having a good week. It’s open season on the Wired editor-in-chief who earlier this week suffered an assault by Malcom Gladwell in the New Yorker. Today it is the turn of the FT...
View ArticleBunch of noobs; kid says stuff about web, City amazed!
Excuse the exclamation mark, but it’s the silly season, which has to account for the FT’s front page story about a 15-year-old on work experience at Morgan Stanley, who wrote a report for the bank and...
View ArticleFrom KFC to Habitat in the Twitterverse
The FT has a quick look at how KFC scored on Twitter and the pros-and cons of promotions. Americans and their chicken, I will never get that, but KFC knocked it out of the park on Twitter earlier this...
View ArticleWelcome to planet FT or how you can charge for content like the pink’un
Financial Times editor Lionel Barber has been telling Channel 4 News why news organisations have to act now and charge for online content and how they can do it like the FT. Not sure about that one....
View ArticleBig and bold Murdoch takes the paid content gamble
Huge sigh of relief has been breathed around the world this morning by newspaper executives everywhere who were all waiting for someone to make the first move and charge for content. Rupert Murdoch has...
View ArticleFT: people will pay for general news content
There is a longish piece in the New York Times over the weekend looking at The Financial Times and its paid content strategy. The paper quotes John Ridding, the chief executive of the FT, insisting...
View ArticleEconomist is a natural for paid content
On hearing the news this morning that The Economist is to charge for news content across its site I was wondering why they waited so long. The Economist is a natural for paid content in the same way...
View ArticleTwitter is not catching on with senior execs
Some FT research just out has revealed that Twitter hasn’t caught on with senior executives. A worldwide survey found that less than 10% of senior executives were using it for work. Really that low?...
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FT.com considers £2 daily charge
The Financial Times is saying it might charge around £2 a day to access FT.com and is to introduce Paypal. Micropayments are still being thought about as well. Speaking at the FT’s Digital Media and...
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The man who tried to alert the world to the potential of hacking scandal in 1999
Interesting website from Steven Nott detailing an amazingly long battle to try and alert the media and authorities about what became phone hacking back in 1999, but to no avail. He contacted the likes...
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