“The telephone is of very limited use if only you and your best friend have one. If a whole town is on the system, it becomes much more useful. If the whole world is wired, the utility of the system is phenomenal. But in the predigital age, it could take many years for Metcalfe’s Law to bear fruit. It was not until 1931 that telephone companies put a dial on

On Tuesday evening I met up with a guy I’d contacted online, Liam Casey, who runs Zed PR and Zeriously, a ‘speed networking’ event along the lines of Ecademy and Ryze.org. Later we went to Renards, which is (I gather) one of the more exclusive clubs in Dublin, where the Corrs and Bono have a permanently reserved ‘sofa area’. Needless to say they weren’t in, but the night was great

Firstly, although Rev. plans to continue updating its site for news (as Media Guardian’s Owen Gibson confirms), it surely can’t justify the manpower investment without a weekly magazine to support it. Which means probably just a couple of hacks tapping out press-release re-writes to keep things ticking over. So which site will win the lion share of Rev’s existing traffic when it drops down a gear? NMA – an obvious

The problem is down to the Internet’s success. The sheer weight of numbers online means that streaming audio and video using the paid-for, legitimate, server-driven likes of RealPlayer and MediaPlayer means greater costs for rights holders. That RealNetworks is desperate to hack its way out of this problem was highlighted recently when the media leviathan released most of the source code to its software. The move is designed to make

Revolution’s last ABC figure (controlled circulation, which means largely ad-supported, not subscription) was 15,849. That’s roughly what it stuck at after the boom. New Media Age’s circulation is (as of June) 10,325, which is a lot less (and I think it’s dropped from the teens?), but then they charge

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