The BBC is in the process of digitising years worth of TV shows, from comedies to documentaries.
Since the last three years, about 50,000 hours of visual content have been digitised. This still accounts for less than 10 per cent of the total content. At present, most of the digitised content is not available for [...]

Today is the big day, Apple is supposed to finally reveal whatever it is they are keeping up their sleeve. Whether it be an iSlate, an iTablet, or an iCanvas, Derek Powazek hopes the device will serve to meld print and online content.
Every content website I’ve ever worked on has proclaimed the death of [...]

Has the advent of the “citizen content producer”, who can be aided simply by the publishing capabilities of a mobile phone with a camera and video recorder, brought about the end of the “creative professional”?
As Henry Jenkins pointed out in Textual Poachers and as I labored to point out in Plenitude, the distinction between [...]

From a Daring Fireball article looking at online news revenue models, and the one very obvious, tangible, difference paying for news published in a newspaper has over online news sites:
When you pay a dollar for a newspaper it feels like you’re paying for the actual stack of paper, and it feels like a fair price. [...]

The Printed Blog by Joshua Karp, publishing and distributing the best blog content in print.
“Why hasn’t anyone tried to take the best content and bring it offline?” said Karp, who thinks print media is far from dying. “[For] people around the world, who need to and want to consume information, whether it be in developing [...]

Blacklists and internet clean feeds are not the way to protect Australian web users from “prohibited content”, says IBRS information security advisor, James Turner, on account of the sheer magnitude of work and resources required to maintain such lists:
“The problem with using blacklists is that you always have to go back to your supposedly omniscient [...]

Interesting article by Aric Sigman, together with accompanying discussion, on the topic of internet filtering from a UK perspective.
This is the first time in our history that children have had the greatest preponderance of ideas, opinions, values and – most importantly – images delivered as a takeaway directly to their eyes and ears, without the [...]

Internet filtering: this I expected more of the previous Australian government, under the antiquated stewardship of former Prime Minister John Howard, rather than the apparently contemporary, tech-savvy, administration of Kevin Rudd.
But this is politics and the Australian people apparently need to be protected from themselves so clean feeds, or “filtering”, it is…
The Australian Federal [...]

How to improve your web copy writing, by Erin Kissane.
Web copy is still, for the most part, being written in much-less-than-ideal circumstances by people who aren’t writers and don’t have any time. That’s a problem, but it’s not one we’re likely to solve in the next few years – particularly not with a recession forcing [...]

Renai LeMay has launched bootstrappr a blog that assesses the viability of new Australian start ups, and makes a call as to whether they will boom or go bust.
First cab of the rank is a review of Streem, a news aggregation site that invites readers to submit news stories and photos, and makes a [...]