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From a late-night tweet by @gmarkham: Some bleak numbers. Newspapers losing their audience online, too. http://bit.ly/5mW23Z From Mark Briggs at Lost Remote: (posted Jan. 22) It is conventional wisdom that newspapers need to grow (and monetize) their online audience to sustain themselves in the digital age. Losing that online audience has to be newspapers’ greatest [...]
Sat, January 23 2010 » Main Page, Media » Comments Off
From the Toronto Star’s blurb: “After taking blame for print’s decline, the digital world, including mobile devices and tablet computers, is being hailed as a potential saviour.”
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Globe and Mail columnist Leah McLaren is trying to create some snob appeal around paying for news, which I guess is a continuation, considering she once pooh-poohed those who wrote for free. From The Globe and Mail, under the headline “I'm looking forward to buying my online news“: Call me crazy, but I actually miss [...]
Sat, January 23 2010 » Main Page, Media » 2 Comments
I wrote two stories for CTV.ca: Will the online anti-prorogue movement come to life? That's the main story. It looks at the evolution of the Facebook group Canadians Against Proroguing Parliament, which is now over 211,000 members. The prorogation backlash – Citizens in conversation This attempted to be a sample of some of the dialogue [...]
Sat, January 23 2010 » * Big Picture Stuff, Main Page, politics » Comments Off
On Friday morning, I boarded a northbound Spadina streetcar at Queen St. W. and Spadina Ave. through the back doors at the behest of a TTC supervisor. I showed my pass as I did so, and was quite sure she saw it. Just as I get up the steps, I hear a sharp, “EXCUSE ME, [...]
Sat, January 23 2010 » Main Page, Minutiae » 4 Comments