Independent redesigns it’s site

The Independent newspaper has redesigned it’s web site. In a “statement”:http://news.independent.co.uk/media/story.jsp?story=575993 on the site today, the newspaper explained that out of all the media, it is even more important for web sites to “evolve to match changing news flows and expectations.” It’s an interesting redesign, very “clean” and slightly reminds me of the International Herald Tribune. As the Guardian is rumoured to be in the early stages of planning a

Social network with your paper, Sir?

So you thought online social networking didn’t have a business model outside of the sheer genius of ‘pay another 10 bucks to network with people who’s email adresses you already have’? Oh, yee of little faith. It turns out online networking isn’t about Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon, or other such esoteric party games. It’s about classified advertising. Still not convinced? Imagine the Guardian buying Friendster.com. Well, that at least

War and conflict add new dimension to online video

The man shuffled in past reception, ushered through the gleaming glass corridors of the internet start-up, his unkempt brown suit and mis-matched tie attracting a few glances from the chino-clad bright young things playing at the table football as he passed into the chief executive’s office. “Have a seat,” said the chief executive, head of one of London’s hippest “internet incubators”, where the new paradigms of e-business were being forged

Hail to the blog: a new movement in journalism

At the recent Emerging Technologies 2002 conference in Santa Clara, California, some of the chatter in the halls among the delegates included the biological frameworks for computation (using ants’ brains), hackers beating entrepreneurs, and the future of ideas. The kinds of discussions that emerge from a gathering of intelligent and technologically savvy people who like thinking about the future. But I’m afraid, dear reader, that I’m about to disabuse you