Category: Media
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It seems as if iPhone applications are the latest bright idea that newspapers and magazines have for generating revenue. It's an odd fact that people do seem willing to pay for stuff on mobile phones (and particularly on the iPhone), but not for a subscription to a website. So I was interested to see that…
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Today’s SCMP has a big story on the front page of the City section informing us that Cable TV would like to provide a free-to-air television channel. They say that it’s unfair that TVB has a Pay TV service and free-to-air terrestrial channels, but no-one else is allowed to do both. Which seems like a…
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Here in Hong Kong we have had the hilarious Edison Chen saga, in which we have had to face up to the horrible reality that pop stars have sex with each other. No, really they do – and apparently some of them take drugs. This is obviously just too shocking for many in Hong Kong,…
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This week's Economist suggests that the Kindle might be the saviour of newspapers The growing popularity of electronic books could offer hope for newspapers THINGS are suddenly hotting up in the rather obscure field of electronic books and their associated reading devices, the best known of which is Amazon’s Kindle. A new, sleeker version of…
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Another fine piece of work from the sub-Standard: (updated on Wednesday as they did spot their errors, and even removed one of the random capital letters)
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Danny Baker discovered the hard way that you can’t make money out of podcasts. His “All Day Breakfast Show” started off free but closed down only a few months after they started charging a fee. As far as I know, no-one else has tried to do the same thing since then. Of course, most podcasts…
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It ought to be obvious to everyone by now that it simply isn't possible to stop audio and video content being freely distributed, and the challenge is how to generate revenue around that fact of modern-day life. Recently The Guardian reported on the Monty Python response (Now for something completely different): "For three years you…
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At first I thought this was a joke. Why would someone who claimed to believe that the Internet is the future (on RTHK) publish a printed magazine? However, having finally found copies of the third issue of NTSCMP in a branch of Dymocks (quite a lot of copies, actually), I can confirm that it does…
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An amusing mistake by The Sun newspaper, from Photo Shop Disasters via The Guardian. The Sun carried photographs of a member of the royal family in a boat (he was actually on Royal Navy manoeuvres off Montserrat). For some reason, they decided the local who was actually driving the boat (see right) should be removed…
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One of the things you have to admire about George Adams is that he is always willing to admit that he was wrong. He used to complain that blogs were trivial and inconsequential, and then he started putting photographs of his girlfriend (and all sorts of other trivia) on to his own website – though…
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