Posts Tagged ‘Media’
Danish TV 2 to cut Internet Explorer 6 support
Following in the footsteps of 37 Signals Danish broadcaster TV 2 will cut their support for Microsoft's Internet Explorer 6 on the tv2.dk website.
TV 2 developer Martin Gausby has announced this in his Twitter stream:
Today we start to inform the users of Internet Explorer 6, that they should upgrade their browsers to IE7 or get Firefox http://xrl.us/osepc
Users of Internet Explorer 6 will see a gray box on the tv2.dk website telling them that their browser is outdated and will no longer be supported. They are told to upgrade to Internet Explorer 7 or switch to Firefox, the open source alternative.
In my view this is a good move by TV 2. IE6 has long been a thorn in the eye of web developers who need to design especially custom CSS for the browser, since it sometimes has its own way of interpreting the code.
Now it'll be interesting to see whether or not other Danish media websites will do the same.
Related postsTags: Browsers, Danish media, Media, Software
Online advertising on the rise
According to the BBC, online advertising will double its 2006 figures by 2012. The numbers come from a Forrester report.
This is something that could get big media to move more and more online - because big media always go where the money is. And with the print numbers dropping like leafs on an automn afternoon the internet will become a more and more interesting place for the large media companies to act.
And I for one can't wait :D
Related postsTags: Advertising, Media
Danish newspaper chooses WordPress
Danish newspaper Politiken has chosen WordPress (actually WordPress MU (for multiple users) as the system to base their "reader blogs" on, Kim Elmose — blog editor at Politiken — tells me.
If you can read Danish, here's an article on the decision.
Very exciting :D
Related postsEC holds mobile TV conference
Want to know what the future looks like for mobile TV?
The European Commission arranging a conference on mobile TV at CeBIT 2007:
Looking forward to the future, how will mobile TV develop? What is its appeal? What are the main challenges facing it in order to increase take-up? How much content is already available? What is and will be the suitability of different frequencies? What is the timeline for infrastructure development? What about European funding? And how will standardisation issues and interoperability be addressed, e.g. for consumer devices?
Key industry stakeholders and regulators will address these issues and many others during the European Commission CeBIT 2007 Mobile TV Conference.
Viviane Reding, Commissioner for Information Society and Media, will also take the opportunity to give a first indication of future European policy in this field.
There's a press conference, where all attendants at the CeBIT fair are allowed acces, but the conference itself requires registration.
CeBIT 2007 is from March 15th to March 21st.
Related postsMedia use of web 2.0 increasing
Web 2.0 — I'm really starting to hate that term — is apparently growing in popularity among the mainstream media.
At least, according to article at ReadWriteWeb.
I think it's really nice to see that the big media is incorporating services such as del.icio.us, Digg, RSS and others, instead of forcing some of their own services — which are basically clones of the original ones — down upon us.
Related postsTags: Media, Social web, Web 2.0
NBC deletes a post - and the blogosphere knows it
Michael Arrington at TechCrunch has a post on the fact that a guy at NBC published a post about NBC's social networking policy on his blog, and then removed it.
As Arrington points out »it’s always the deleted blog posts that get the most attention« — so there's no point in deleting the policy for NBC, it only creates suspicion on why it was done.
I once interviewed Robert Scoble on this exact issue (deleting blog posts), where he said that he would advise the blogger to just leave the post online.
Hear my interview with Robert Scoble,
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Arrington says:
Perhaps they just made a decision that having their go forward social networking strategy out there for the world to see wasn’t good for competitive reasons. Or perhaps they finally acquired another social network, something Kanaujia discusses in the last paragraph of the post. Either way, he just guaranteed that far more people will now read the post than if he just left it up on his blog
And he's right.
Related postsTags: Blogging, Media, News sites
Firefox has nothing to do with fire…or fox
In the Danish newspaper Dato from the 26th of October 2006 (page 13) there's an article with the header: "Surf på nettet uden Internet Explorer" — Danish for "Surf the web without Internet Explorer".
Although it's nice to see the Danish mainstream media writing about Firefox, they almost everytime, this time is no exception, forgets to underline the fact that Firefox is an open source browser and what that means.
And the journalist tried to vary his language use by referring to Firefox as "ildræv" ("ild" is Danish for "fire", and "ræv" is Danish for "fox") but that's not what Firefox means — although there is a fox with a fire-like tail in the logo.
According to Mozilla who's behind Firefox, the meaning is something else:
What's a Firefox?
A "Firefox" is another name for the red panda.
Just to set that one straight…
Related postsTags: Firefox, Media, Mozilla, Open source
An academic view on internet newspapers
I've just started reading this interesting book; Internet Newspapers: The Making of a Mainstream Medium.
It consists of various academic articles about online newspapers and journalism, instead of just another "here's where we a now"-book, which is, quite sad, not so useful in a year, or maybe even just 6 months.
I'm looking very much forward to finding out, what kind of approach this book has to all of this. The foreword sounds most promising :-)
Related postsTags: Internet, Internet newspapers, Journalism, Media