As argued in“Online news: bloggers v newspapers”, we are entering a new era where the bundle of stories represented by current magazines and newspapers is being torn apart and being replaced by smaller publications and individual journalists/ writers blogging out there on the web.
Posted under Unanswerable questions, Wait for release 2.0
This post was written by @Drivelry on April 6, 2010
In Drivelry’s continuing mission to convert the obscure into ’scure’, it is remarkable how some movies do so well at the box office and others do so undeservedly badly.
A great case in point is the film “The Jane Austen Book Club”. Despite the title you really don’t have to know anything about Austen to appreciate this film.
Posted under Kewl, Reviews, Unanswerable questions
This post was written by @Drivelry on August 18, 2009
What motivates people in chosing media types to publish their content? Why, for example, produce a video on a topic which would be far better expressed in print?
Posted under Unanswerable questions
This post was written by @Drivelry on July 28, 2009
An interesting article from Danny Sullivan at SearchEngineLand this week on tracking traffic into his website via Twitter.
In a nutshell (and he’d probably be horrified to see it oversimplified like this) he was pointing out that for one of his articles only about a sixth of the traffic it actually got from Twitter showed up in Google Analytics.
Posted under Unanswerable questions
This post was written by @Drivelry on June 26, 2009
Five years or so ago it was all so simple.
We had moved on from the doctor and lawyer aspirations that our parents had for us as children to lionize careers in banking and finance, but now bankers and financiers are lying gasping on the floor and the coroner is on the way.
Posted under Unanswerable questions
This post was written by @Drivelry on June 4, 2009
We all like to think of ourselves as plugged into the zeitgeist. The web? Was there in ’95. LinkedIn profile? Got one years ago? Skype? Tick. Blog? Tick (you’re looking at it). SecondLife? I’m there. 24 x 7 online gadgets? Got them in spades.
Posted under Hate pets, Unanswerable questions
This post was written by @Drivelry on May 10, 2009
My (late 20s) sister gets some flak about being part of generation Y. You know, that generation that has:-
’an expectation that there will always be a job out there and that you should be able to get to the top job of any average organisation in under 2 years.’
Posted under Reviews, Self doubt, Unanswerable questions
This post was written by @Drivelry on March 19, 2009