Jim Muttram

Jim Muttram

Surveys cost business millions

The Times Online has a funny post listing out the top 14 spurious productivity surveys said to cost business millions of pounds. My favourite is number 14 - coughing costs the UK economy £875m a year! Powered by ScribeFire.

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Jim Muttram

Mobile payments begin...

paidContent reports that O2 is running a trial of a new mobile payments system in London. Nokia 6131 handsets using Near Field Communications technology will allow 500 lucky people to use their mobiles to pay for up to £10 worth of tube, bus or tram…

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Jim Muttram

Consolidation or separation?

Jeff Jarvis reports that he has changed his mind about separation of editorial teams. I was on the side of separation at the beginning of the web and for good reasons. At Advance, where I used to work, we set up separate online operations to…

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Jim Muttram

Site vs. Network

There's a debate brewing on Michael Arrington's TechCrunch blog about the merits or otherwise of networks rather and websites. But Glam isn’t really the largest women’s site on the Internet - not by a long stretch. Rather, it’s a collection of a few sites that…

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Jim Muttram

User Generated Content vs journalism

A few weeks ago Darren Rowse of ProBlogger was asked to contribute a column to an Australian magazine about the threat to journalism posed by User Generated Content. He was asked to argue for the threat while Phil Mclean, group executive editor at the publishier…

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