Why lads mags have a shelf life

Great article from Michael Deacon in the Telegraph about why there’s no point getting outraged by Zoo and Nuts, they won’t be around for long.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2008/12/09/do0901.xml

UK and worldwide, people want politics, games and a waste of time

http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/the_web/article5314396.ece

The top searches in Google for 2008 are:
Top UK search terms

1. Facebook
2. BBC
3. YouTube
4. eBay
5. games
6. news
7. Hotmail
8. Bebo
9. Yahoo
10. jobs

Fastest rising UK search terms

1. iPlayer
2. Facebook
3. iPhone
4. YouTube
5. Yahoo Mail
6. Large Hadron Collider
7. Obama
8. Friv
9. Cam4
10. Jogos

Fastest rising global search terms

1. Sarah Palin
2. Beijing 2008
3. Facebook login
4. Tuenti
5. Heath Ledger
6. Obama
7. Nasza Klasa
8. Wer Kennt Wen
9. Euro 2008
10. Jonas brothers

The ones I hadn’t heard of, friv.com is an online games site, cam4.com is a webcam/chat service and jogos is a Brazilian online games site.

Journalism, video editing and shorthand, either essential, or useless

An NCTJ conference in Manchester came to the conclusion that editors are looking for a mixture of old and new skills in trainee journalists. The Journalism Skills Survey found the following:

“Trying to find what the industry may look like in five years time is fraught with dangers.

“Change has been rapid in recent years and few, if any, are willing to stick their necks out and say what the world will look like five – or even two – years from now.

“Among both national and regional newspapers, there was strong recognition that journalists would need the ‘new’ skills.

“There was broad consensus across the views of interviewees that the skill sets of print journalists and broadcast journalists are becoming similar.

“The view was also articulated that all sectors are looking for new entrants who are comfortable working across two of three platforms in the course of a working day.”

But according to Charlie Beckett head of POLIS, the initial findings of a new report by Goldsmiths Media Research Centre shows that many journalists think quality is declining: http://www.charliebeckett.org/?p=924#more-924

Slow news day causes Obama smoking quiz

On what was obviously a slow news day, Reuters reported that Barack Obama has been equivocating on his smoking habit

Obama's smoking comes under criticism

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Appearing on NBC’s “Meet the Press” program yesterday President Obama apparently ducked the question about whether he has quit smoking or not.

“I’ve fallen off the wagon a couple of times,” he said, but re-iterated that he would not be smoking in the White House.

It was not made clear whether the America media would be withholding President Obama’s allowance until he quits properly.

Reports of journalists forcing the President to smoke “until he was sick” have also not been confirmed.

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