Spammers, spam – and Monty Python
Research explores how key spam players interact. Canada’s new anti-spam legislation came into effect in July 2014. It is estimated that over 14 billion spam messages are sent around the world every...
View ArticleEphemeral messaging
“This message will self-destruct in 24 hours” The growth of ephemeral messaging services and private social networks – individuals want more privacy; companies want to be more like Snapchat! Path is a...
View ArticleThe second digital revolution
New information seeking behaviours mean libraries and publishers have to change. People are increasingly creating and consuming information on the move. This, combined with the growth of cloud-based...
View ArticleChatham House rules! A historical digital archive for the 21st Century
Leading international affairs think-tank has released its digital archive. Chatham House in London is the home of the Royal Institute of International Affairs which, by bringing together academics,...
View ArticleSharing, collaboration and getting it wrong
There’s nothing like a headline telling you you’ve got it wrong to make you read on. An article on Time.com written by a data analytics expert tells us ‘What [we] think [we] know about the Web is...
View ArticleBook publishing – some recent innovations
Book publishers experimenting with new models; books fighting binge drinking in Italy Netflix models An article on Wired.com looks at a new online fiction service called Rooster in which a book...
View ArticleYouth TV – ‘the need for speed’
The BBC’s youth TV channel to close; but a different story emerges in Belgium In the UK the BBC has announced that it is to close its ‘youth-oriented’ TV channel and move the content onto its online...
View ArticleThe news behind a paywall – a success story from the Netherlands
The New York Times and the Wall Street Journal are often cited as paywall success stories. But how are smaller news outlets making paywalls succeed? In the Netherlands, a news site called De...
View Article‘Convergence is King’ in the new information industry
In the new information industry, neither content nor technology is king. It is the unique combination of both which is driving the sector. With the start of a new year comes a flurry of reports and...
View ArticleFrom Selfish Giant to Slumdog Millionaire – lessons from Channel 4 film and...
Sometimes it is good to step outside of the information echo chamber. What can we learn from leaders in another profession – one which seeks to balance creative vision with tight budgets; is...
View ArticleSelfie is the word of the year
“Is this a selfie which I see before me, The angle toward my hand? Come, let me tweet thee*” Oxford Dictionaries have announced that their word of the year for 2013 is ‘selfie’. Over the course of the...
View ArticlePaper and digital archives – preserving the present for the future
Germaine Greer, the author and academic, has sold her personal archive for £1.8million. She is to donate the proceeds to support a rainforest charity. The archive will be housed by the University of...
View ArticleWhat drives traffic to corporate websites?
Visits to corporate websites are up (24% in two years) – and the rise is being driven by mobile. Research from Investis IQ has been tracking visitors to corporate websites from social media platforms...
View ArticleOpen access: academic libraries and article processing charges
Despite challenges, the new emphasis on OA provides librarians with a positive platform to re-establish their role in the research process. A new report published by SAGE explores the current – and...
View ArticleNew York shooting – citizen journalists on the scene
On September 15th 2013 (as reported in the New York Times), police officers confronted an ‘agitated’ individual and used their firearms, missing the suspect but injuring two bystanders. After the...
View ArticleTV viewing trends
The latest report by Ericsson ConsumerLab explores the ways in which connected devices are changing the ways in which consumers view TV and video content. Consumers in 15 countries* were asked about...
View ArticleThe psychology of sharing
If we understand what drives people to share content online, then we can appeal to their motivations to connect our content with others. The New York Times Customer Insight Group has collaborated with...
View Articlee-content and e-reading
Is our long history with writing for and reading print on paper affecting the way we create and publish content on digital and connected devices? Are many of us still struggling to ’forget the paper...
View ArticleCyber security in the UK
Effective cyber security is good for business, according to the UK’s Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS), which has published its 2013 Information Security Breaches Survey. The report...
View ArticleDoes digital piracy impact revenues?
How much should copyright holders worry about piracy? Two recent research reports provide some contradictory conclusions on the impact of digital piracy. According to Danaher and Smith (Wellesley...
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