12/01/09

Apt’s links for January 11th

• Report: Apple Dominates the Mobile Web – ReadWriteWeb – “The latest data from AdMob, the world’s largest mobile advertising marketplace, shows that Apple now dominates the mobile web in the U.S. with a 48% market share.” Thanks, George
• Fresh Starts – A Job Guiding Web Surfers to Your Company?s Site – NYTimes.com – SEO starter in NYT.
• Peter Preston: New era? It’s all Huff and puff | Media | The Observer – “It must be the future – the most feted, most dynamically charged news website of the lot? Eight million unique users, a 448% annual growth rate and awards showering down. Want to raise another $25m, even in these straitened times? Certainly, madam. Venture capitalists duly oblige. Your Huffington Post, just four years old, is already worth $100m. Here’s one sort of journalism that can shrug off recession, surely? Tina Brown with her ultra-competitive, somewhat derivative, Daily Beast is already turning a wheeze into a formula.” Tina Brown will be in Kolkata with us later this month – be interesting to see what she says.
• America’s most revered newspaper, the New York Times, is latest to be hit by financial woes | Media | The Observer – “When it opened in 2007, it was an ambitious statement of intent for the most famous journalistic brand in America. It would be a sleek and stylish home for the best journalism in the world. That was then. Now the “Grey Lady”, whose masthead bears the famed motto “All the news that’s fit to print”, has begun to look decidedly off-colour.” Another piece on declining fortunes of NYTimes
• Street art video – “Man invents an entirely new way to do street art. Amazing.”
• William Zantzinger, villain in Dylan song, dies – Salon.com – “Zantzinger, who later became a foreclosure auctioneer, didn’t answer questions about Dylan’s song for years. In 2001, he spoke with Dylan biographer Howard Sounes about the singer, saying he “should have sued him and put him in jail. (The song is) a total lie.”"

Posted by Peter Collingridge in Links.

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