by Derek Morrison, 28 January 2010 (updated 30 January and 4 February) I’ve got a serious ebooks posting in the works which I’ve been delaying until Apple launched what some in the geek community called the Messiah Machine or what we now know to be its official name iPad. That posting is for the future […]
Archive for the ‘News media’ Category
iPhone, iTouch, iTunes, iNewsagent, iNfinity?
January 3rd, 2010
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by Derek Morrison, 3 January 2010 N.B. The following online essay represents the views of the author alone and should not be construed as necessarily representing the views of any other individual or organisation. In my posting Tensions are prelude to virtual space and e-publishing wars? (Auricle, 6 December 2009) I wasn’t convinced that the […]
Independent “The First Decade” internet essay
December 9th, 2009
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The UK Independent is running a series of four essays this week to mark the first decade of the 21st century. The second essay this week was titled Has the Internet Brought us Together or Driven Us Apart (8 December 2009). It’s a good reflective piece by Johann Hari. The following extracts give a flavour […]
Tensions are prelude to virtual space and e-publishing wars?
December 6th, 2009
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In my posting Dying newspapers head for the online ‘panic room’ (Auricle, 1 September 2009) I argued that newspapers are caught between a “rock and a hard place”. Their current business model is failing because of the internet but yet a compensatory move online is confounded, so the press barons would argue, due to a […]
Dying newspapers head for the online ‘panic room’
September 1st, 2009
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by Derek Morrison, 1 September 2009 One of my areas of interest is what is happening to the newspaper industry and how, and if, they manage to get out of the nose dive to extinction they currently appear to be in. There’s a lot written about this phenomenon of the digital age but I found […]
