Mirror blogs quietly
The Daily Mirror started some 16 blogs last year, apparently. They look pretty good, features-wise, with all the proper comments, bookmarks and tag-cloud features you'd expect from a modern newspaper blog...
As Martin Stabe puts it "Whoa. When did this happen?" Certainly it passed me by... and not surprisingly given their low profile. No links that I could see on the front page of the website...
Shame the Independent, from the same Trinity Mirror stable can't innovate in this way... Charles Arthur gives them a well earned roasting on his blog.
I gave the Independent's Travel section a very low score when I reviewed it for the current issue of Travelution (here's a link to the electronic edition). The attitude of the Independent to social media is one Charles rightly compares to King Canute. It's almost scornful of social media.
Quick fact check: The Indy is not owned by Trinity Mirror. It's owned by Independent News and Media plc.
Posted by: Martin | 13/01/2007 at 15:58
Cheers, Martin...
Posted by: Antony Mayfield | 13/01/2007 at 16:09
Let me guess: The Mirror doesn't link outward to other media sources (including blogs), right?
Posted by: Jackie Danicki | 30/01/2007 at 14:34
A quick scan of the most recent posts suggests you are... RIGHT!
Some articles - I mean posts - don't bother to link to anything at all. One manages to link to soem blog posts the journalist has written previously.
Posted by: Antony Mayfield | 31/01/2007 at 02:32