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Jim Muttram

Blogging v. journalism

Robert Scoble, ex-Microsoft Blogger, now Fast Company TV host/producer and still a blogger, writes an interesting piece illustrating the difference between old fashioned magazine journalism (complete with fact checkers and editors) and blogging. Despite the benefits of all those people now watching his back, his…

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Jim Muttram

One killer mobile platform?

Mobile Internet World is suggesting that Nokia and Google may be about to do a deal to converge the Symbian and Android platforms to create one near-universal platform for the mobile phone. This, they argue, could create conditions to those sparked by Microsoft's Windows platform…

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Jim Muttram

New newsrooms

Jeff Jarvis has started an interactive spreadsheet where he is challenging readers to reduce the headcount of a large news organisation by 30%. He has started the ball rolling by showing where he would cut (national news, for instance) and where he would increase (local…

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Jim Muttram

Outsourcing the platform

A provocative piece by Jeff Jarvis suggesting that newspapers should outsource their web platforms - and perhaps their ad sales business - to Google. The idea came from a breakfast discussion with Edward Roussel, head of digital at the Telegraph, apparently. Technorati Tags: newspapers, online,…

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