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1 year ago
in Shropshire Star: Shropshire and Mid Wales hit by snow misery on Martin Stabe
LOL Martin. I rarely comment on a Del.icio.us link, but I just had to on this one. Growing up west of Chicago, 5 inches of snow is just a light dusting.
But hey, this is just as bad as the weather wimps in Washington DC where I last lived. The mere threat of snow caused a run on staples at the stores, and parents almost rioted if school wasn't cancelled. It was as if snow posed a clear and present danger.
Oh, and the terms 'misery', 'crisis' and 'shock' are just a few elements in the rich language of hyperbolic catastrophe used by British journalists.
But hey, this is just as bad as the weather wimps in Washington DC where I last lived. The mere threat of snow caused a run on staples at the stores, and parents almost rioted if school wasn't cancelled. It was as if snow posed a clear and present danger.
Oh, and the terms 'misery', 'crisis' and 'shock' are just a few elements in the rich language of hyperbolic catastrophe used by British journalists.
2 years ago
in A different online strategy: Lag behind deliberately on Martin Stabe
Martin, there is a strategy and then there is the appearance of a strategy. That is to say most often digital immigrants confuse tools with behaviours. The question isn't whether newspapers should blog but what makes blogging compelling. I've heard that a major UK newspaper's stategy when it comes to blogging is 'to attract a younger demographic'. That's not strategic thinking, and it will fail.
Everyone is chasing video because of YouTube without really understanding why YouTube is compelling. It's not because it's video, I can tell you that. Now, newspapers also seem to like video because advertisers like video. Well, that makes some economic sense. Are advertisers digging video because of YouTube? I don't know. But neither the advertisers nor newspapers will succeed if they think that YouTube's popularity is about video (or about piracy).
Everyone is chasing video because of YouTube without really understanding why YouTube is compelling. It's not because it's video, I can tell you that. Now, newspapers also seem to like video because advertisers like video. Well, that makes some economic sense. Are advertisers digging video because of YouTube? I don't know. But neither the advertisers nor newspapers will succeed if they think that YouTube's popularity is about video (or about piracy).
2 years ago
in Why United States will remain dominant in tech… on Scobleizer
Stefan, I'm not entirely sure what mobile market you're talking about, but the pricing and more importantly price predictability of mobile data in the US actually is a fair bit better than I've experienced in the UK and most of Europe. '3' and T-Mobile do flat rate here in the UK where I live, and the industry is moving that way in the UK, but only recently.
CDMA might not be inter-operable with GSM, but Verizon's EVDO service in the US is stellar and faster than most GSM services I've used in Europe, which suffer from horrible contention rates and low bitrates. Japan has been far ahead of Europe and the US for years, but that has much to do with the pricing competitiveness of iMode when compared to landline data rates there.
As an American, I used to be very envious of mobile services abroad, but I would have to say that in the last few years, mobile data and services in the US have become quite comparable both in terms of features and pricing. Not to be simply provocative, but I'm actually curious. What benefits exactly is Europe reaping that the US isn't in terms of mobile applications? I find the pricing in Europe to be so prohibitive that I don't use mobile data unless I can pick up WiFi.
CDMA might not be inter-operable with GSM, but Verizon's EVDO service in the US is stellar and faster than most GSM services I've used in Europe, which suffer from horrible contention rates and low bitrates. Japan has been far ahead of Europe and the US for years, but that has much to do with the pricing competitiveness of iMode when compared to landline data rates there.
As an American, I used to be very envious of mobile services abroad, but I would have to say that in the last few years, mobile data and services in the US have become quite comparable both in terms of features and pricing. Not to be simply provocative, but I'm actually curious. What benefits exactly is Europe reaping that the US isn't in terms of mobile applications? I find the pricing in Europe to be so prohibitive that I don't use mobile data unless I can pick up WiFi.
2 years ago
in Is Diggnation really a success? on Scobleizer
My question would be what is the average viewing audience for a cable news program? Though this isn't a one to one relationship, here's one figure I quickly found, viewing numbers for MSNBC from a report last year (figures from 2004):
MSNBC, still in third place, had median viewership of 341,000 in prime time, though that represented a healthy increase of 19% over the 287,000 viewers it had in 2003. Its median daytime viewership, meanwhile, barely changed, from 222,000 in 2003 to 224,000 in 2004.
http://www.stateofthenewsmedia.org/2005/narrati...
Now, downloads don't necessarily mean that someone watched the program, but comparing downloads to median daytime viewership, Diggnation does pretty well. It would be great to hear from someone with a little better handle on stats the differences in using these metrics. Obviously, MSNBC's number being a median, there are days when the viewership is higher, but also days when it's lower.
MSNBC, still in third place, had median viewership of 341,000 in prime time, though that represented a healthy increase of 19% over the 287,000 viewers it had in 2003. Its median daytime viewership, meanwhile, barely changed, from 222,000 in 2003 to 224,000 in 2004.
http://www.stateofthenewsmedia.org/2005/narrati...
Now, downloads don't necessarily mean that someone watched the program, but comparing downloads to median daytime viewership, Diggnation does pretty well. It would be great to hear from someone with a little better handle on stats the differences in using these metrics. Obviously, MSNBC's number being a median, there are days when the viewership is higher, but also days when it's lower.
