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Paper Thin Strategy February 26th, 2012

I can’t help feeling at a time when it’s clear that more people are reading news online and the circulation of newspapers is declining, that The Sun is investing in an already declining market by going live this weekend with their first Sunday newspaper. I blogged last year about the Times’ paywall and how it affected the shear numbers of people that suddenly were banned from reading the articles published on thetimes.co.uk Website. I was amongst hundreds of thousands who never returned. Convinced that the “content is more important than the delivery” the leaders at The Times insisted that all readers need to be paying a fee for the news it provides. Overnight the readership was slashed to a fraction of its original traffic. And… Read the Rest »

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Power Struggle July 25th, 2011

It all started once we’d made the decision to build our own data centre. Until this point we’d leased data centres and filled 3 in Manchester alone with a significant number of racks in Telehouse, London. However the facilities are fine if you just have a few racks and pop down every now and again, however we’d grown to around 300 which requires a large team working around the clock operating in the buildings. The facilities are not conducive to a happy working environment. They are cold, noisy and uncomfortable and as we did not control the building, it proved impossible to raise the standards to those we have in at head office. We had to fight to get a kettle in to the building, then… Read the Rest »

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Economy Drive April 4th, 2011

I was quoted in the press this week commenting on the budget and the recent changes the chancellor has made. Whatever my politics and whatever my beliefs, what is plain to see from where I am sitting, there is a brighter horizon approaching. I am ever the optimist and I have been wrong more times than I have been right on most subjects, however it does feel as if the mood in the board rooms of businesses is continuing to lift. It is difficult to ignore the politics in other parts of the world, there are so many countries and people fighting for a myriad of causes. It certainly is a reminder to us all how fortunate we are in the UK. Yet back here… Read the Rest »

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