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Zivity Downsizes, Rethinks Its Ambitions, And Will Almost Certainly Survive

Zivity has got more attention than most recent Silicon Valley startups, mainly because it’s full of naked folks – the site is a kind of…

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Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Creative Economy | July 28, 2009 12:11PM | No Comments »


2012 Olympics Every Sub-Editor's Dream

2012 Olympics Every Sub-Editor’s Dream

It’s three years today until the 2012 Olympics begin, and there’s therefore been a torrent of opinion gushing through the media, oscillating between wide-eyed burbling, unashamed cynicism,…

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Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Creative Economy | July 27, 2009 3:23PM | 1 Comment »


Pirate Bay To Become Legal And Probably Terrible

Pirate Bay To Become Legal And Probably Terrible

Copyright aggravators and internet underdogs The Pirate Bay announced yesterday that they’ll be selling the site to games and internet café owners Global Gaming Network…

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Posted by Jennifer Allan in Creative Economy | July 1, 2009 1:10PM | 5 Comments »


Screen Digest Predicts Yet More Advertising Woe

Screen Digest Predicts Yet More Advertising Woe

Screen Digest, one of those media analyst companies that exist solely to make ad salesmen cry, is all set to publish its latest report, and…

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Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Creative Economy | June 29, 2009 11:03AM | 1 Comment »


Simonseeks Seeks To Be iStock Of The Travel Market

Simonseeks Seeks To Be iStock Of The Travel Market

A new travel website, Simonseeks.com, launched last week – offering its writers a share in advertising revenue. Created by Simon Nixon, the…

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Posted by Ruth Stokes in Creative Economy | June 25, 2009 12:53PM | 2 Comments »


Steve Brill Provides More Details Of Payment Platform "Journalism Online"

Steve Brill Provides More Details Of Payment Platform “Journalism Online”

Steve Brill has been determined for years to get people to stop getting their news for free, starting up and then shutting down

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Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Creative Economy | June 25, 2009 12:09PM | 1 Comment »


BBC To Have Licence Fee Top-Sliced

BBC To Have Licence Fee Top-Sliced

There’s been a long line of people warning against it, including Greg Dyke and Michael Lyons, but the BBC is going to have

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Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Creative Economy | June 15, 2009 12:57PM | 1 Comment »


Media-Created Expenses Frenzy Is Turning Democracy Into A Joke

So Blears has gone, Smith’s gone, all those expenses-abusers have gone, and now Darling looks likely to be the next to join the…

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Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Creative Economy | June 3, 2009 2:36PM | 1 Comment »


Book Publishers Continue To Fall For E-Readers

Book Publishers Continue To Fall For E-Readers

Are book publishers finally seeing the potential in e-readers? News that Random House have launched their own reading app suggests they might…

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Posted by Ruth Stokes in Creative Economy | June 2, 2009 11:48AM | 2 Comments »


4iP To Fund Crowdsourced Journalism Project "Help Me Investigate"

4iP To Fund Crowdsourced Journalism Project “Help Me Investigate”

4iP, or 4 Innovation for the Public to give its full title, is Channel 4’s fund for “publicly valuable content” that it set up last…

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Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Creative Economy | June 1, 2009 1:02PM | 1 Comment »


AOL And Time Warner - Why Couldn't These Two Make It Work?

AOL And Time Warner – Why Couldn’t These Two Make It Work?

AOL and Time Warner are finally admitting it just ain’t working out, and are splitting apart after nine years of haemorrhaging balance sheets. When they…

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Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Creative Economy | May 29, 2009 11:53AM | 3 Comments »


Eric Schmidt Stands Firm On Google Sharing Revenues With Some Poxy Content Producer

Eric Schmidt Stands Firm On Google Sharing Revenues With Some Poxy Content Producer

Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google, annoyed American print media at the Newspaper Association of America conference recently by saying: “Try to figure out what…

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Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Creative Economy | May 21, 2009 10:44AM | 1 Comment »