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The End of Book Publishing As We Know It [link]

Rajit — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 04:51:24 +0000

The End of Book Publishing As We Know It. There’s a quote in that article about “The line between newspapers, magazines, and books is about to become blurred.”
I thought that was interesting in light of attempts to reinvent the newspaper as seen in The San Francisco Panorama and in Portugal. Content, formats, delivery mechanisms – all in a huge state of flux.

Orion City – Sri Lanka – Daily Mirror Online

Rajit — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 05:21:23 +0000

Typical of the awful standard of journalism in LK. I was interested to hear of a new IT services park in Sri Lanka but the article did not mention where it was located. It just regurgitated what sounds the press release material. The shoddy website of the project wasn’t much help either.

Sri Lanka’s IT giants are congregating at Orion City via Sri Lanka Breaking News-Daily Mirror Online.

Guardian News & Media Advertising Site

Rajit — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 01:44:45 +0000

I’m checking out digital advertising options for a client and was a little overwhelmed – and now quite impressed – by The Guardian’s approach to this. There’s an entire site devoted providing information as to the options available on their network, both print and online. The other newspapers I checked out did provide relevant information but with no where as much detail.

Ad Info – Advertising information from Guardian News & Media.

Sports + Social Media: Today in Sport – live! | guardian.co.uk

Rajit — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 14:56:11 +0000

Today in Sport – live! | Sean Ingle and James Dart | Sport | guardian.co.uk. Interesting new addition to the Guardians sports section - a blog that streams the day’s sports news with reader feedback. The Guardian’s Over by Over cricket feature has proved hugely successful and they seem to be spinning that off into [...]