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Today, I heard a journalist say that the village that is the media audience had moved on and left newspapers with the old and the lame. For him, convergence was a way to catch up and remind everyone just how important a part of the community they are.
So I was interested to see a [...]

A cracking use of new technology from This is Plymouth reported by Press Gazette
The Plymouth Evening Herald’s web site today published video recorded using a state-of-the art camera strapped to a reporter’s head, in what could be a trial run for solo war reporting from Afghanistan.

Maritime and defence correspondent Tristan Nichols had a small (what [...]

I have just spent a few days in the very pleasent company of ten editors of various Johnston Press papers around the UK.
I did a day of camera work and a day of video editing with them. You can see the results of that quick intro on their blog.

They were in work as part of [...]

Behr paint and wood stain have a great colour utility designed for picking paint but it’s just as good for picking colour combinations for websites to.

Content vs Distribution was the imaginary battleground of a war called
‘convergence’ that, like so many wannabee generals playing Risk or Age
of Empires, occupied the executives and strategic thinkers of blue-chip
media/comms companies for the last 10 years or so.
http://www.test.org.uk/ - Content is not King