30 years of Balearic beats, by me

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Top 10 Content providers in the UK, according to Alexa

There’s a perception — often repeated — that “new” media is sweeping away “legacy” media online. But a quick perusal of the Alexa page rank system reveals that, on the contary, it is traditional media that has colonised the top spots. The following list was taken from Alexa this morning. I’ve stripped out all social media sites, supermarkets and anyone else that doesn’t generate its own content. Start-ups like Buzzfeed are yet to be seen in the top ten.

See for yourself here: Alexa Top Sites in United Kingdom

1. BBC

2. Wikipedia

3. Theladbible.com

4. Mail online

5. The Guardian

6. The Torygraph

7. Imdb.com

8. Gov.uk

9. Sky.com

10. Pornhub.com

Nice piece about the possible expansion of the county championship Cricinfo (via http://liberalengland.blogspot.co.uk/2015/05/could-devon-and-cornwall-xi-become-19th.html).. I’m all in favour, especially if Scottish and Irish teams are to be invited.

How It Felt to Kiss You https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzTojpEG40g

Mara Carlyle: How It Felt to Kiss You

This is rather good: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzTojpEG40g

This is rather good: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzTojpEG40g

I think our job really is about teaching the public interest. I think one day there should be a whole module on it.

My goodness: MailOnline is reporting that it gets 147, 257, 593 page impressions a day. That’s every single day. That’s an awful lot of swimwear pics

This isn’t a trick pub quiz question. It’s true, I googled it: Nigel Farage, Keanu Reeves and Courtney Love — all born in the same year? T or F? Thanks to @hugorifkind of the Times for pointing it out.

Why are Electrelane so underrated? When they made this: 11 years on, they are practically forgotten

Electrelane

Why are Electrelane so underrated? When they made this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Geg1q_p3oOA 11 years on, they are practically forgotten

A lot’s made, nowadays, of new news site — Buzzfeed and the like — taking on the established providers. Now Gawker, though, is reporting that New York-based Buzzfeed is DELETING POSTS deemed as unfavourable to is advertisers. Arabelle Sicardi, a staff writer, saw her piece about Dove soaps recent bizarre ad campaign washed down the virtual plughole and replaced with a single sentence: “We pulled this post because it is not consistent with the tone of BuzzFeed Life.” It’s a slippery slope.

The need for a global ethics is due not only to technological innovation and new ownership patterns; it is due to changes in the world that journalism inhabits.

Stephen J. A. Ward

Kang Kang-hoon makes extraordinary paintings. You can’t tell them apart from photographs

This get’s you over bad result: Bill Brewster’s 25 top balearic classics

Life in the old dog

Many thanks to Stu Smith, our librarian at Leeds Met, for pointing me towards a recent report, from the analysts Generator Research, which indicates that there’s still money to be made in the news business.

The worldwide newspaper industry will grow from USD 114.3 billion in 2014 to USD 123.1 billion in 2018, an increase of 7.7%. While print advertising revenues will fall by 3.8%, from USD 64.5 billion in 2014 to USD 62.1 billion in 2018, revenues from copy sales, digital advertising and digital subscriptions will all increase. In developed internet markets the newspaper industry is experiencing a structural contraction which is being caused by digital technology and the internet. But in markets where the internet remains immature – India, Romania and the Philippines, for instance, traditional printed newspaper businesses are thriving. While publishers in mature markets will have to swallow a bitter pill, which will eventually see them downsizing or selling off their print operations, there has never been a better time for skilled writers, visionary publishers and savvy investors to get involved in the news business.