Changed the template for the site today. The original JA Purity, while an excellent simple theme, was starting to annoy me with the “loose” looking side boxes. This newer theme allows me to place many more additional elements, and while I don’t quite need that flexibility yet, it’s a welcome addition nonetheless.

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This announcement regarding an attempt by Newsday to do a u-turn on paid-for content online is absolutely ridiculous. It’s far, far too late- the proliferation of free news has gone on too long. I mean, subscription options are all well and good, but to even retain a portion of free readers is becoming difficult in the ever-expanding realm of free content.

Courtesy of Jarvis’s Buzzmachine- full article.

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Dublin Bus unveiled their new website last week, and it’s the latest part of a company-wide redesign that’s truly ambitious and has created a striking, contemporary, and, let’s face it, well-designed corporate image.

Unfortunately, this major expense came at a very bad time, and, despite the association of poverty with public transport, the economic realities have forced Dublin Bus to cancel a number of services and prepare to eliminate large numbers of staff. This being a media blog, however, I’m primarily concerned with the tragic fact that such a carefully planned and executed body of work hasn’t resulted in tangible results for the company which commissioned it.

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The Irish government has been considering the Defamation Bill 2006 for…well, obviously quite some time now. The Bill, which would replace the outdated Torts of Libel and Slander with the single act governing all forms of defamation, has had a troubled history, to say the least. The history of the bill can be read (with an excellent commentary) here, and further posts regarding it (and the wider issue of defamation in Ireland) here. Seanad Éireann (the senate, for foreigners) passed the bill last year (renaming it “2008” in the process) but since then, it’s been in limbo, as the Dáil (main house of government) has had more important recession-fighting issues to tackle.

This is bad news for the media industry at large, since Ireland’s system currently in place is pretty horrific.

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