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Are newspapers content farms?

February 9, 2011 ~ Graeme ~ 4 Comments

I disagreed with a recent blog post by Alan Patrick which described the Huffington Post as a content farm. I do not think that the alleged lack of original content at the Huffpo is any worse than at many newspapers: so I concluded that it is not a content farm. It could be interpreted the other way: newspapers are content farms too. Continue reading →

The Huffington Post and AOL

February 8, 2011 ~ Graeme ~ 1 Comment

The Huffington Post may not be a bad buy at the price AOL is paying, but that does not mean that AOL is right to buy it. Continue reading →

The internet as an instrument of control

December 7, 2010December 8, 2010 ~ Graeme ~ 2 Comments

Conventional wisdom has long been that the internet (and IT and modern telecommunications) are hard for governments to control and empower anyone willing to use them — activists and protesters in particular. I have long been sceptical, but I think its now clear I was right. Continue reading →

Demand Media IPO

August 15, 2010October 22, 2010 ~ Graeme ~ 1 Comment

I usually comment only on British companies (as investments, that is), but I also like to keep an eye on tech and internet companies, and on anything that illustrates a point. Demand Media falls in to both categories. Continue reading →

Google’s “concession” to Murdoch

December 2, 2009December 2, 2009 ~ Graeme ~ 2 Comments

Everyone seems to be interpreting the changes made by Google News as a victory for Murdoch and others who are trying t extract payments from Google in return for making their content searchable through Google. I disagree, and think it is designed to make life more difficult for those putting up pay walls. Continue reading →

Peak Google?

November 23, 2009November 23, 2009 ~ Graeme ~ 2 Comments

Alan Patrick is sticking his neck out and calling the top on Google’s growth. I am not convinced, and there are specific points that I have comments on. Continue reading →

LA Times false accusation of Facebook

July 26, 2009 ~ Graeme

Yet more examples of the wonderful fact checking that we can rely on journalists to do, the LA Times has a story that relies entirely on the authority of “someone’s blog said so”, accusing Facebook of using user’s photos in ads without permission. It was soon convincingly re-butted by Facebook. Continue reading →

Google hatred

April 29, 2009July 2, 2009 ~ Graeme

The usually intelligent Willem Buiter has written a great example of the irrational hatred that Google seems to sporadically evoke. He attacks them with a list of charges, all of which are easily refuted.

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The Wall Street Journal gets spun

December 16, 2008December 18, 2008 ~ Graeme

The Wall Street Journal seems to have been completely fooled by telecoms spin-doctors into claiming that Google, and other prominent advocates of net neutrality, have changed their views.

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The internet is easy to censor

December 10, 2008December 11, 2008 ~ Graeme

It has often been said that the internet is hard to censor because “it treats censorship as a defect and routes around it”. This could not be more wrong, the internet is the easiest medium to censor. Continue reading →

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