SubscribeMurdoch Starts Charging for Online Content – Will it Work?
Leading UK newspapers The Times and The Sunday Times, both owned by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation, have announced plans to start charging for online content starting in June. The announcement was made Friday, March 26, on the Times website. News International, the newspapers’ parent company, announced that readers will be offered a day’s use for [...]
New Advertising Report Shows Possible Recovery in Media
2009 was a bad year for the media, but the worst may be over. Overall advertising expenditures were down 12.3% in 2009, when compared to 2008 levels, according to a new report recently release by Kantar media. And while 12.3% seems like a big drop, the report shows advertising has gone up toward the end [...]
Twitter Users Want People To @DumpCNN
CNN was one of the first mainstream adopters and promoters of Twitter. From Rick Sanchez’s constant use of social media sites to get viewer feedback and CNN’s race to 1 million followers against Ashton Kutcher, you could say that CNN and Twitter have had a cozy relationship. But now a group of upset Twitter users [...]
Learning To Love Twitter Lists
I must admit, I was a slow adopter of Twitter’s List feature when it was first rolled out. But now I can’t imagine how I got by without it. Every person I follow or am followed by now is on a list. I have about a dozen lists, to separate local people, national news sources, [...]
Why Does This Census Letter Look So Intimidating?
I just got my first census form in the mail. I was barely a teenager the last time these were sent out, so I don’t remember ever seeing an actual census form. But I do have one question? Why do they have to make it look so intimidating? As you can see in the photo [...]
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