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The Wall
I see that the Express & Star have finally jumped the shark. They’re introducing a paywall, so that most of their online daily content is subscriber only. In short, there’s very little on their website that you’ll be able to … Continue reading
Posted in Bad Science, Events, Express & Star, Followups, Just plain daft, Local Blogs, Local media, Shared media, Social Media, Spotted whilst browsing the web, Walsall community
Tagged bloggers, Cheap tat, Express & Star, hyperlocal, journalism standards, journalistic suicide, local blogs, local journalism, local newspapers, paywall, Silly, The YamYam, Twitter
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Somewhere, in the distance…
Today is the last day of that wonderful Walsall institution, The YamYam. Yes, I’m afraid that the site that was instrumental and continual in support for The Brownhills Blog, is being mothballed as Mark, the chap behind this king of … Continue reading
Posted in Events, Express & Star, Followups, It makes me mad!, Local Blogs, Local media, Local politics, Shared memories, Social Media, Spotted whilst browsing the web, Walsall community
Tagged aggregator, Andy Holyhead, Blogging, blogs, Bob Piper, Brownhills, Derek Bennett, end of an era, Express & Star, hyperlocal, Jayne Howarth, local blogs, Local politics, Localism, Mark Blackstock, Pheasey Views, Stuart Williams, The Plastic Hippo, The YamYam, The YamYam closure, Twitter, Walsall, Walsall Council, Walsall Online, Walsall politics
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No self interest there, then…
I was saddened to see today that a local newspaper for the Humberside area – The Hull Daily Mail – seems to have decided to launch a character assassination based hatchet job on the webmaster of a competing, free local … Continue reading
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