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NSFW: The Madness of King Rupert – I Admit, I Was Wrong About Murdoch’s Mental State

Moving its content behind a pay-wall will be the death of the Times; one of the world’s most respected newspapers and a British national treasure. Even with a relatively modest subscription cost of £1 ($1.60) a day or £2 for the whole week, it has been shown time and time again that the hassle factor of making even a small payment to access a website will result in a hemorrhaging of readers. Unlike the Financial Times (no relation), only a small fraction of the Times’ online readership do so for business reasons – with most incorporating it into their general news diet. If it’s no longer free they’ll simply get their news elsewhere.

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Great article from Paul Carr on Techcrunch about News International's paywall ambitions. In the past I've not been to keen on Paul's writing on TC, finding it verging on the irrelevant and silly sometimes. But I think this is terrifically well written and argued. A top bit of journalism about appropriately enough the future of journalism.

I enjoyed it so much, it's one of those rare online news occasions I would have happily paid for it.

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SlateV | Arts and Life | How I Ran an Ad on Fox News

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Google TV ads, very interesting stuff.

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The Seven Needs of Real-Time Curators

This is a guide for how we can build “info molecules” that have a lot more value than the atomic world we live in now. First, what are info atoms? A tweet is an atom. A photo on Flickr is an atom. A conversation item on Google Buzz is an atom. A Facebook status message is an atom. A YouTube video is an atom.

Thousands of these atoms flow across our screens in tools like Seesmic, Google Reader, Tweetdeck, Tweetie, Simply Tweet, Twitroid, etc.

A curator is an information chemist. He or she mixes atoms together in a way to build an info-molecule. Then adds value to that molecule.

So, what are the seven needs of real time curators?

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Brilliant post from Robert Scoble this morn. Inspirational start to British Summer Time, and the starting gun on a lot of late (working) nights methinks.

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Social Media: The Choice of a New Generation

Today's new forms of social media--Facebook, Twitter, blogging, Skype, texting, YouTube, Instant Messaging, and those indispensable smart phones--require follow-us-wherever-we-go rules, and they are changing as you read this! Social media are the new e-mail. These networking tools have exploded in consumer popularity in both the business and social worlds.

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Great Huff Post article well worth reading.

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Dezeen » Blog Archive » Built to Resi(s)t by Quinze & Milan and Eastpak

Built to Resi(s)t by Quinze & Milan
and Eastpak

March 16th, 2010

Belgian design brand Quinze & Milan will present a sofa covered in pockets for backpack company Eastpak at the Salone Internazionale del Mobile in Milan next month.

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My pal Jon Mountjoy makes sensational claim:

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Pedigree Dogs ad shot 1000 FPS using the Phantom camera

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Awesome, beautiful, captivating.

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Cracking post from Trotty:

Michael Caine was making a film with Sean Connery and director John Huston.

They were on the set of ‘The Man Who Would Be King’.

Caine said to Connery, “Have you noticed how John Huston never gives us any direction?”

Connery said, “You’re right, he doesn’t.”

Caine said, “Go and ask him what’s going on.”

And Connery went over to Huston and said, “John, how come you never give us any direction about how you want us to play our parts?”

And John Huston said, “You only have to do that when you get the casting wrong.”

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BlackBerrys Effectively Add 10 Days of Work a Year | BerryReview.com »

According to research performed by Nectar Business for its 2010 Small Business Awards BlackBerry use effectively adds 10 days of work a year for employees. They did this research in the UK surveying 1,000+ BlackBerry workers about the impact of BlackBerrys on their working lives.

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