Dan Thornton
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Dan Thornton is a freelance specialist in digital content and digital marketing, having worked online for over 10 years. His blog is at TheWayoftheWeb.net.
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What advice would you give a younger you? TheMediaBriefing readers share tips for young professionals
Last week on TheMediaBriefing’s LinkedIn group I asked a very simple question: “If you could turn back time and talk to yourself as a fresh-faced new entrant to the media industry, what advice would you give?”.
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Why the “Cost to the economy” of strike action could be misleading
It’s become a modern catchphrase. When planes are grounded, when cars crash, when computers are hacked, and when the earth shakes. There is, it seems, always a “cost to the economy”.
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Why smartphones are vital to the future of radio
The RAJAR audience figures have just been released for the last quarter of 2010, and as always, there's plenty of excellent analysis online from the likes of James Cridland, Matt Deegan and my former colleague Adam Bowie.
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links for 2010-11-03
Baker Ebook Framework "Baker is an HTML5 ebook framework to publish on the iPad using open web standards". There's going to be a lot more of this sort of thing coming along I think. (tags: ipad ebooks html5 frameworks) Daily Express scapegoats migrants over mushroom picking | Minority Thought How a story mutates from The Guardian to the Daily Mail and finally to the Express (tags: guardian immigration racism dailymail dailyexpress) The "newspaper extinction timeline" sucks | Newspaper Innovation Piet Bakker thinks that his graphs entitled "UK papers will be around for many years" will get a lot less attention than "A timeline of death of the industry".

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