Did the internet begin dying in September 2008?
Nicholas Moerman has put together an impressive collection of graphs showing a general decline over the past year in visits to mainstream websites across a raft of categories, from content and commerce to portals and porn. The only category that bucks the trend? I’ll let y

Google Latitude’s Location History provides more opportunities for mobile journalism
This was originally published in Poynter’s E-Media Tidbits last week Google Latitude – a service that allows people to see where you are – has

Presentation: Law for bloggers and journalists (UK)
Yesterday I hosted a session on law for my MA Online Journalism students, which I thought I would embed below. Some background: I teach all my sessions in a coffee shop in central Birmingham – anyone can drop in. This week I specifically invited lo

What if a newspaper was designed using principles of web design?
What if a newspaper was designed using principles of web design? That’s the question that design agency Information Architects asked themselves when they put together a pitch for Swiss newspaper Tages-Anzeiger. They lost the pitch, but

The fall of a news site: the Spanish case of Soitu.es
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