London Free Press

What Innovation Gets You

by Brian on 12-17-2009

in business,creativity,london,media

What happens when innovation is done well? Well… a lot of things happen. One of them is you get a lot more attention — which is harder and harder to come by these days: What is it that makes the economy hum, but is not growing? What’s the limiting factor behind all those web pages, [...]

Tagged as: attention, influence, London Free Press, mavens, popularity, social media, twitter, voices.com

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London Media: Time for a Homegrown Focus

by Brian on 03-04-2009

in london,media

I have other things I should be working on but it’s impossible to resist getting into this discussion. The catalyst of the conversation is CTVglobemedia’s decision to cancel the A Morning show from the lineups of A Channels nationwide. In London that decision carried with it 48 jobs from the station (and this comes hot on the [...]

Tagged as: a channel, London Free Press, media, newspapers, the wire, tv

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More Retooling

by Brian on 01-15-2009

in general

With all the newspaper stuff happening I wanted to write something along those lines, like, “Citizen Journalism: Your Civic Duty,” or something lame like that.  I was going to recommend PodCamp London (not lame) coming up in April, tip my hat to the encouraging progress the London Free Press is making (with people there starting to appreciate citizen journalists a little [...]

Tagged as: blogging, citizen journalism, London Free Press, pclo09, podcamplondon, twitter

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Newspapers, Getting Old

by Brian on 12-17-2008

in business,civics,media

I like newspapers. I used to love newspapers, but we’re growing apart — farther apart every day. While I don’t make a conscious effort to pick up the paper anymore, I still read a lot online and I do my best to refer other people to important or interesting articles. And even when I’m advocating progress away [...]

Tagged as: blogging, blogs, co-creation, crowdsourcing, Detroit Free Press, interaction design, London Free Press, media, news, newspapers, social media, user experience, web

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