Peter Bale - My curated assemblage: TikTok, Muskadvice, Snap, and more.
The winners will be the music labels and in some cases performers who get to exploit some level of competition. I suspect this will spread into podcasts in which case it may have more relevance to journalism.
Those who know me from Microsoft will know why I think this thing is actually so clever. I learned many great lessons then but this one is so simple and an excellent way to cut nonsense time out of your day. (Of course, I am guilty I am sure, of doing the opposite.)
Snap is an interesting company in its deft moves and ability to shift from failure to success. (I never got it but I was not the target audience.) It is at the very least agile. Presumably acquisition target for Facebook?
This speech has caused some controversy but I have no doubt Emily Maitlis is speaking the truth from her perspective. The Robbie Gibb presence on the BBC board is a disgrace and the BBC is losing far too many excellent people at far too great a rate.
You can get to the original story from here. Ben Mullin is excellent. It is a really interesting dilemma to think about how to effectively turn the Washington Post into the New York Times. On the other hand, it is likely that the NYT we love now would not have been what it is without Mark Thompson (whom I never understood but have to respect).
Blimey: so many things have been going wrong for so long here. I can imagine there are McKinsey analyses for the past 10 years of how to make the USA Today into the New York Times (in a sense).
Yes, I admit I wrote this but I did it slightly out of passion. There is more to come on this from me. These guys really got one element of the next stage for online journalism and focused on it. They deserve credit for that alone.
Oh, sorry, I admit I wrote this too. Or at least assembled it. I hope you consider it a good weekend bonus. I do it for the very clever New Zealand/Aotearoa news site, The Spinoff.