A Media Week report on ‘Alternative Media’ forecast a surge of 20.2% in 2008.
I suspect this growth will be spent conservatively relocating from one arm of a media company to another. With a few obvious exceptions this is not the time to have an advertising revenue model for your start up or indeed be starting a start up. Ofcourse online ad revenue will grow, so will e-commerce there is still quite a bit of stretch but only to the detriment of other media
After working on a project for 1.5 years it is a great feeling to see it realised and garnering praise from its peers
Sorry this is a bit of a personal rant but what a shambles St Pancras International is. Waiting for my returning wife and three young children in the main concourse is not a pleasant experience bordering on the farcical. Read More
I like the Coen brothers and thought “No Country for Old Men” was a fine example of their take on laconic modern westerns. Like the “Man with No Name“ series it has a languid and iconic feel. Javier Bardem was great. Dog in the river was great. The ending was a little indecipherable. And yet Read More
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Is the Internet boring ? Mark Cuban’s post created loads of activity in the blogosphere. However his point was quite simple the Internet had matured to the point of becoming a commodity. I think his point is reasonably well made. He still dreams of ways of monetizing the Internet through segment of one advertising on Facebook etc. But how many social recommendation sites can you have? How many people really use social recommendations, as opposed to professional or personal offline recommendations ? Read More
Having recently started a new business, or at least given sufficient attention to, having a good meeting can sustain you for quite a few days during a lull. And lets be honest the whole world seems to be going through a lull. Read More