Last night The Sun announced that they will back the Conservatives at the next general election, 12 years after backing New Labour, with today’s front page announcing that: “Labour’s lost it.” In 1992 the newspaper’s election day headline “If Kinnock wins today will the last person to leave Britain please turn out the lights?, leading…
Monthly Archives: September 2009
Google Sidewiki: helpful friend, Pandora’s box or red herring?
Google this week unveiled the Sidewiki: “which allows you to contribute helpful information next to any webpage”. This has the potential to make the entire web ‘social.’ Every site will become a forum, with users able to leave comments and feedback, viewable to all visitors of that site – who have the Google toolbar downloaded….
Survey finds that only a fraction of web users would pay for online news content
A survey released earlier this week further called into question the case for pay-for access to news sites. The survey, commissioned by Harris Interactive, found that just 5% of those polled would pay to continue reading their favourite news site. It should be noted that the survey specifically referred to the site already being to…
