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Full story: On board with The Huffington Post UK
In a few days time, an event takes place that marks another evolutionary milestone for the mainstream media – the launch of The Huffington Post UK edition on July 6. The Huffington Post is a US news website and content aggregating blog founded in 2005 by Arianna Huffington and others. With origins as a liberal (in the American sense) political blog, it’s grown to embrace a wide and deep range of topics to cover, just like major mainstream media do.…
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Full story: Top 20 UK tech blogs for July 2011
In a few days’ time, European search engine and news portal Wikio will be publishing their latest monthly ranking of the top 100 technology blogs in the UK. As usual, they’ve given me a sneak peek ahead of publication at the top 20 from the full list of the top 100 tech blogs. Here are the top 20 for July 2011. Positions relative to last month are shown in parentheses: TechCrunch Europe (=) Geeky Gadgets (=) Electricpig.co.uk (=) Naked Security…
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Full story: FIR Interview: Bill Calder, Managing Editor, Intel Free Press
FIR co-host Shel Holtz explores how Intel is taking steps to become a media company in this interview with Intel Free Press managing editor Bill Calder. According to the About page on the site, "The Intel Free Press is a tech news beta from Intel Corporation, covering technology and innovation stories that are often overlooked or warrant more context and deeper reporting. The stories here are reported and produced by writers employed by the company with a focus on people,…
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Full story: Taking link licensing to a higher level
A new development in the ‘pay per click’ links licensing conflict in the UK is about to move things up a level, one designed to raise awareness among members of Parliament and which might influence the future of a system that has won little support in the public relations industry. To concisely re-cap: from early 2010, anyone copying and supplying UK newspaper web content to others for a fee (monitoring or press clippings agencies to PR agencies, for instance, and…











