http://www.crikey.com.au now with extra source Fri, 10 Feb 2012 05:25:37 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/12/12/new-kid-on-the-block-the-wall-or-the-walled-wide-web/ http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/12/12/new-kid-on-the-block-the-wall-or-the-walled-wide-web/#comments Mon, 12 Dec 2011 02:27:30 +0000 Margaret Simons http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=264580 The Wall.]]> http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/12/12/new-kid-on-the-block-the-wall-or-the-walled-wide-web/feed/ 3 http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/11/14/the-campaign-to-rid-anonymous-comments-from-the-internet/ http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/11/14/the-campaign-to-rid-anonymous-comments-from-the-internet/#comments Mon, 14 Nov 2011 01:50:55 +0000 Crikey http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=259050 Mumbrella's Tim Burrowes goes inside the debate.]]> http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/11/14/the-campaign-to-rid-anonymous-comments-from-the-internet/feed/ 23 http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/greenslade/2010/may/21/jamesmurdoch-british-library http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/greenslade/2010/may/21/jamesmurdoch-british-library#comments Mon, 24 May 2010 02:20:40 +0000 Crikey http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=140711 hit out at the British Library and its evil information sharing ways. Roy Greenslade has a memo for him: libraries don't care about your bottom line.]]> http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/greenslade/2010/may/21/jamesmurdoch-british-library/feed/ 0 http://www.businessinsider.com/huffington-post-comes-of-age-2010-5 http://www.businessinsider.com/huffington-post-comes-of-age-2010-5#comments Wed, 19 May 2010 00:22:51 +0000 Crikey http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=139594 The Huffington Post has become the largest independent news site in the world, and its traffic now eclipses that of the WashPo, WSJ and LA Times. Now there's just one more title to top: the NYT. Henry Blodget gives it six months.]]> http://www.businessinsider.com/huffington-post-comes-of-age-2010-5/feed/ 0 http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/17/business/media/17carr.html?partner=rss&emc=rss http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/17/business/media/17carr.html?partner=rss&emc=rss#comments Tue, 18 May 2010 00:49:51 +0000 Crikey http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=139270 David Carr mourns the death of the smart screamer.]]> http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/17/business/media/17carr.html?partner=rss&emc=rss/feed/ 0 http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/16/magazine/16Journalism-t.html?pagewanted=1 http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/16/magazine/16Journalism-t.html?pagewanted=1#comments Thu, 13 May 2010 23:44:48 +0000 Crikey http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=138508 http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/16/magazine/16Journalism-t.html?pagewanted=1/feed/ 0 http://www.cjr.org/behind_the_news/the_huffington_post_turns_five.php?page=all http://www.cjr.org/behind_the_news/the_huffington_post_turns_five.php?page=all#comments Tue, 11 May 2010 01:02:13 +0000 Crikey http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=137293 The Huffington Post, and CJR hip-hip-hoorays with a series of reflections on the online news empire. Our favourite comes from Greg Marx: "Why is it always shouting at me?"]]> http://www.cjr.org/behind_the_news/the_huffington_post_turns_five.php?page=all/feed/ 0 http://48hrmag.com/ http://48hrmag.com/#comments Fri, 07 May 2010 00:27:19 +0000 Crikey http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=136468 48 Hour magazine are trying to answer. After they unveil the each issue's theme, writers have 24 hours to produce and submit content, then the production team have 24 hours to stick it all together.]]> http://48hrmag.com/feed/ 0 http://www.slate.com/id/2252247/ http://www.slate.com/id/2252247/#comments Fri, 30 Apr 2010 02:47:44 +0000 Crikey http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=134681 really read from a wide range of news sources? Slate has created a wonderful little widget that looks at your recent news-browsing history and lays your true media biases bare.]]> http://www.slate.com/id/2252247/feed/ 0 http://wtfcnn.com/ http://wtfcnn.com/#comments Thu, 29 Apr 2010 00:45:12 +0000 Crikey http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=134239 WTF CNN? is a delightfully simple site highlighting the tabloid headlines topping CNN's homepage by comparing it to the far more news-focused Al-Jazeera front-page. ]]> http://wtfcnn.com/feed/ 0 http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/archives/2010/04/gawkers_march_e.php http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/archives/2010/04/gawkers_march_e.php#comments Fri, 09 Apr 2010 00:57:53 +0000 Crikey http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=129353 Village Voice has the latest staff memo from Gawker Media chief Nick Denton, advising his underlings on how to write for the web. It's fascinating reading from someone who actually has this whole internet thing figured out.]]> http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/archives/2010/04/gawkers_march_e.php/feed/ 0 http://www.followthemedia.com/fittoprint/paywall31032010.htm http://www.followthemedia.com/fittoprint/paywall31032010.htm#comments Thu, 01 Apr 2010 00:04:15 +0000 Crikey http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=127878 Times newspaper is hemorrhaging about £1.5 million a week -- so while erecting an online paywall may seem risky, he has nothing to lose and everything to gain, says media consultant Philip M. Stone.]]> http://www.followthemedia.com/fittoprint/paywall31032010.htm/feed/ 0 http://www.businessspectator.com.au/bs.nsf/Article/Rupert-Murdoch-News-Corp-The-Times-pay-walls-onlin-pd20100329-3Z8DV?OpenDocument http://www.businessspectator.com.au/bs.nsf/Article/Rupert-Murdoch-News-Corp-The-Times-pay-walls-onlin-pd20100329-3Z8DV?OpenDocument#comments Mon, 29 Mar 2010 21:51:17 +0000 Crikey http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=127022 The Times, says Stephen Bartholomeusz: no bundling, no micro-payments, no tiered access. It's all or nothing with Rupe.]]> http://www.businessspectator.com.au/bs.nsf/Article/Rupert-Murdoch-News-Corp-The-Times-pay-walls-onlin-pd20100329-3Z8DV?OpenDocument/feed/ 0 http://appadvice.com/appnn/2010/03/definitive-list-ipad-apps/ http://appadvice.com/appnn/2010/03/definitive-list-ipad-apps/#comments Sun, 28 Mar 2010 23:26:42 +0000 Crikey http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=126706 App Advice has compiled a list of all the apps that will be available when the iPad App Store launches next weekend. So far, the only news app is Reuters Pro, which they have a sneak peak of here.]]> http://appadvice.com/appnn/2010/03/definitive-list-ipad-apps/feed/ 0 http://googlepublicpolicy.blogspot.com/2010/03/newspaper-economics-online-and-offline.html http://googlepublicpolicy.blogspot.com/2010/03/newspaper-economics-online-and-offline.html#comments Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:16:37 +0000 Crikey http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=122075 Hal Varian offers some advice to newspaper publishers: paywalls won't cure your financial woes -- going big online will. Forget costly printed news: news outlets must go 100% online to survive.]]> http://googlepublicpolicy.blogspot.com/2010/03/newspaper-economics-online-and-offline.html/feed/ 0 http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/09/science/09tier.html?partner=rss&emc=rss http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/09/science/09tier.html?partner=rss&emc=rss#comments Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:33:09 +0000 Crikey http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=115498 New York Times articles to see what kind of news people like to share -- and why. The results are not what you might expect.]]> http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/09/science/09tier.html?partner=rss&emc=rss/feed/ 0 http://www.observer.com/2010/media/after-three-months-only-35-subscriptions-newsdays-web-site http://www.observer.com/2010/media/after-three-months-only-35-subscriptions-newsdays-web-site#comments Wed, 27 Jan 2010 04:34:40 +0000 Crikey http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=112365 NYT and News Corp, it has been revealed that newsday.com has only secured 35 subscribers since the paper put up a paywall. The account of how the figure came out is gold.]]> http://www.observer.com/2010/media/after-three-months-only-35-subscriptions-newsdays-web-site/feed/ 0 http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/01/21/new-york-times-to-join-the-paywall-brigade/ http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/01/21/new-york-times-to-join-the-paywall-brigade/#comments Thu, 21 Jan 2010 02:11:52 +0000 Eric Beecher http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=111191 New York Times will introduce a charge for readers to use its website next year, heralding the most important development so far in the agonising who-will-pay-for-quality-journalism debate. The world of free journalism will never be the same.]]> http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/01/21/new-york-times-to-join-the-paywall-brigade/feed/ 18 http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/01/21/crikey-wrap-moving-with-the-ny-times/ http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/01/21/crikey-wrap-moving-with-the-ny-times/#comments Thu, 21 Jan 2010 01:38:43 +0000 Crikey Intern http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=111254 NY Times has announced that it will resurrect a paywall for its online content, sending media geeks and commentators' fingers flying over whether it will work and What It All Means. Crikey intern Flint Duxfield takes a look at what they're saying.]]> http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/01/21/crikey-wrap-moving-with-the-ny-times/feed/ 0 http://www.mediaite.com/online/its-true-news-aggregators-are-spelling-doom-for-newspapers/ http://www.mediaite.com/online/its-true-news-aggregators-are-spelling-doom-for-newspapers/#comments Thu, 21 Jan 2010 00:36:44 +0000 Crikey http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=111175 http://www.mediaite.com/online/its-true-news-aggregators-are-spelling-doom-for-newspapers/feed/ 0 http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/21/business/media/21times.html http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/21/business/media/21times.html#comments Wed, 20 Jan 2010 21:00:06 +0000 Crikey http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=111101 New York Times unveils its plans for the future of NYTimes.com: readers will get a flat number of free articles per month before having to pay.]]> http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/21/business/media/21times.html/feed/ 0 http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2010/01/new_york_times_set_to_mimic_ws.html http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2010/01/new_york_times_set_to_mimic_ws.html#comments Sun, 17 Jan 2010 20:49:28 +0000 Crikey http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=110143 New York magazine claims the New York Times is soon to announce that it will start charging readers for access to its website, adopting a "metered system" (ie x number of articles free per day, pay for the rest) akin to that of the Financial Times.]]> http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2010/01/new_york_times_set_to_mimic_ws.html/feed/ 0 http://blogs.crikey.com.au/contentmakers/2009/12/16/ninemsn-nails-its-colours-to-the-mast-information-is-free/ http://blogs.crikey.com.au/contentmakers/2009/12/16/ninemsn-nails-its-colours-to-the-mast-information-is-free/#comments Wed, 16 Dec 2009 04:36:19 +0000 Margaret Simons http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=106426 Ninemsn news executive producer Hal Crawford has written a distinctly bolshie blog post arguing that Rupert Murdoch's paywall push is a threat to freedom, reports Margaret Simons. Given it's the most popular news website in the country, that's no small thing.]]> http://blogs.crikey.com.au/contentmakers/2009/12/16/ninemsn-nails-its-colours-to-the-mast-information-is-free/feed/ 0 http://blogs.crikey.com.au/contentmakers/2009/12/09/the-contours-of-the-new-google-and-the-living-story/ http://blogs.crikey.com.au/contentmakers/2009/12/09/the-contours-of-the-new-google-and-the-living-story/#comments Wed, 09 Dec 2009 23:31:09 +0000 Crikey http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=104753 living story', where stories are unified on a single page, which is updated as new developments occur. It needs some work, says Margaret Simons, but it could still be a game changer.]]> http://blogs.crikey.com.au/contentmakers/2009/12/09/the-contours-of-the-new-google-and-the-living-story/feed/ 0 http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118012435.html?categoryid=14&cs=1 http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118012435.html?categoryid=14&cs=1#comments Wed, 09 Dec 2009 22:30:46 +0000 Crikey http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=104867 Variety is putting up a paywall tomorrow. It's an icon of the industry, but with a $248-a-year subscription fee, its real cachet will be put to the test. ]]> http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118012435.html?categoryid=14&cs=1/feed/ 0