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I'm Rob Minto, and this is my personal website or blog.
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Best of this blog
- The internet of 1901
- The lazy journalism of citing Facebook and Twitter
- The gender timebomb of India and China: a stab at the numbers
- Changing the clocks – how the numbers (don’t always) stack up
- The X-factor flaw: the new demographics of pop
- Zuckerberg vs Hirst
- What Sarah Palin has in common with Ludwig Wittgenstein
Category Archives: Media
Occupy Wall Street: how quick were the media on the uptake?
TweetThe Occupy Wall Street movement is spreading and sprawling, into different countries and encompassing many issues. But how fast did it take for the news media to catch on? This is possible to quantify using two things – Factiva to … Continue reading
How Georgia rules the newspaper web fonts
TweetWhat have the Guardian, Times, Telegraph, FT and Independent got in common (aside from being UK newspapers)? Politically? Not much. Ownership? Couldn’t be more different. Style? Now you are getting somewhere. If you’ve ever surfed a few news websites and … Continue reading
When monochrome should rule
TweetI was in a deli near work yesterday, and used my debit card to make the purchase. So far, so ordinary. But then something caught my eye. The payment machine was new, shiny, and had a colour screen. Now that … Continue reading
Just “pub talk” – is it open season on the web?
TweetA strange day for defamation and the internet. Jane Clift has lost her case against the Daily Mail – where she was trying to get the identities of two commenters on a Daily Mail article to sue them for defamation. … Continue reading
Premature obituaries – a closer look at the data
TweetAfter being alerted by Paul Bradshaw’s tweet that Wikipedia has a fascinating list of people who have had their obituary published erroneously or prematurely, I thought i would take a closer look at the data. First off, the caveats: it’s … Continue reading
All floods are a disaster – but which ones should we care about?
TweetWhen devastating floods hit Australia this month, it dominated the news coverage. When Brazil’s floods started not long after, the news coverage was minimal, to say the least. Why? Is this a UK problem? We are culturally closer to Australia … Continue reading
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Facebook: is the party over?
TweetIn all the hoopla surrounding the Goldman Sachs investment in Facebook, one thing seems odd. It isn’t the money – Facebook made $2bn in revenues last year, apparently, which isn’t bad (although we need to remember that revenues aren’t profit … Continue reading
Predictions for 2011 and beyond
TweetIt’s that time of year. Everyone is at it. As any reader of the Black Swan knows, predictions are a fools game. The real interest is in showing what we think now, not really saying “told you so” in 2012. … Continue reading
Just don’t be yourself
Why The trip has taken the spirit of Curb and flushed down the postmodern loo. Continue reading