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Lovely idea, lovely execution, and a great example of viral marketing:
I wake this morning to the exciting news that iTunes has added TV shows to the UK store. Hurrah! So far, it's just a bunch of US shows, from South Park to Lost, Ugly Betty to Desperate Housewives. But really, who hasn't had the suspicion lately that the US shows are better than our own? (Doctor Who excepted, of course)John Naughton's speech to the Society of Editors conference last week has reprinted in The Observer as Young people don't like us. Who can blame them? It's a corker:
Now look round the average British newsroom. How many hacks have a Flickr account or a MySpace profile? How many sub-editors have ever uploaded a video to YouTube? How many editors have used BitTorrent? (How many know what BitTorrent is?)
And while some of our teenagers' interests coincide with ours, many do not. Here, for example, are the top blog tags on Technorati last night: Bush, careers, college, comedy, Congress, death, Democrats, elections, Flickr, gay, Halloween, Iraq, Microsoft, money, Republicans, Saddam, Ted Haggard, vote, war, breaking-news, tagshare, YouTube. Some you'll recognise. But you won't see much about many of these in the papers.
It's not only an accurate view of the way things are in many media businesses, it's also a roadmap as to where they should be...
Today is a strange day. Today is the sort of day where I need two strong cups of black coffee, just to function. (The lady in the coffee shop here starts making me a strong, black Americano as soon as she spots me in the queue.) Today is the sort of day where I find myself linking to The Sun.
Why? Because Jeremy Clarkson's account of his collegue Richard Hammond's recovery from an insanely high-speed car crash is a work of pure genius:
In the wee small hours of Thursday night, just 30 hours after what is almost certainly the world’s fastest ever car crash, Richard Hammond suddenly sat up in bed, opened his eyes and asked what had happened.
“You’ve been in a car accident,” I said. “Was I driving like a tw*t?” he asked, before getting out of bed and walking, shakily, to the lavatory.
Go on, read the rest.
Technorati Tags: car crash, cars, danger, jeremy clarkson, richard hammond, top gear, tv
Emily Bell, who has lead The Guardian's charge into the online world, has been promoted to Guardian Newspapers' board. A think that's a clear sign of how important interactive online publishing is becoming even to old media firms.
Technorati Tags: journalism, newspapers, the guardian
Stupidly busy. Let me distract you with this:
