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	<description>Journalist, Blogger &#38; Media Aficionado</description>
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		<title>The Times&#8217;s pay wall would not sustain its daily losses?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8211; Note: this is a fragment from my dissertation looking into The Google Effect on Newspapers&#8217; Websites. This excerpt refers to pay walls as revenue streams.
The first Murdoch UK titles to raise pay walls are The Times and The Sunday Times. Starting June 2010, the sites will charge for content online, £1 for a day’s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bdionescu.com/2010/04/the-timess-pay-wall-would-not-sustain-the-papers-daily-losses/</link>
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		<title>BBC iPhone apps blocked in the UK by&#8230; newspapers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Newspaper Publishers’ Association (NPA) complained to the BBC Trust because the BBC was planning (read developed) three dedicated iPhone/iPad apps, for news, sport and iPlayer (the on-demand video catch-up service).
The NPA said the apps would &#8220;undermine commercial organisations&#8217; ability to establish economic models on smartphones.&#8221; Outrageously, the BBC Trust, the governing body of the BBC, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bdionescu.com/2010/04/bbc-iphone-apps-blocked-in-the-uk-by-newspapers/</link>
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		<title>Young people still care about print, survey says. Really?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Adults under the age of 35 have significantly increased their consumption of news in the past three years &#8212; and they profess a growing interest in getting news from print newspapers.
Some Hope for Newspapers in Greater News Consumption by Young
— Mark Fitzgerald, Editor&#38;Pulbisher

I&#8217;m increasingly intrigued by surveys which go unscrutinised, such as the latest from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bdionescu.com/2010/04/young-people-still-care-about-print-survey-says-really/</link>
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		<title>iPad sales numbers: predictions and reality</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A quick look at how the first-day iPad sales predictions from analysts panned out.]]></description>
		<link>http://bdionescu.com/2010/04/ipad-sales-numbers-predictions-and-reality/</link>
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		<title>Covering the iPad</title>
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I have been covering quite a lot lately Apple&#8217;s long-expected tablet, the iPad, so I&#8217;ve selected a few highlights of my reports from PCWorld below:
iPad Expected to Beat iPhone&#8217;s First 3-Month Sales
Apple could sell more iPads in the first three months of availability than it sold original iPhones in the same period, according to sources [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bdionescu.com/2010/03/covering-the-ipad/</link>
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		<title>Why periodicals don&#8217;t belong in the iPad iBook store</title>
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I don&#8217;t believe magazines/periodicals belong in the new iBook store for the iPad. This store uses the ePub format, which is what the Kindle uses as well, yet periodicals subscriptions on the Amazon reader haven&#8217;t really kicked off mainly because of the lack of graphics.
Also, ePub is not easy to update, unlike a website. If [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bdionescu.com/2010/01/why-periodicals-dont-belong-in-the-ipad-ibook-store/</link>
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		<title>iPhone 4G rumors, weak sales for Nexus One and Netflix on Wii</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Nexus One Price Drops for Some T-Mobile Upgrades
Google and T-Mobile have changed the Nexus One pricing policy, slashing $100 off the price of the handset for certain existing customers. Eligible upgraders should now be able to get the Nexus One for $279 instead of $379, and Google will give refunds to those who paid the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bdionescu.com/2010/01/iphone-4g-rumors-weak-sales-for-nexus-one-and-netflix-on-wii/</link>
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		<title>2010: The tech world in January</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This year has started in force, with a great bunch of posts for PC World, some more controversial than others. Here's a recap of the first ten days.]]></description>
		<link>http://bdionescu.com/2010/01/fresh-the-first-2010-posts/</link>
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		<title>Fix your newspaper in 5 easy steps</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Shane Croucher wrote an excellent critique on how (local) newspapers can easily fix their business and adapt to the changing media landscape. Here&#8217;s a quick review:

Embrace broadcast
Twitter
Get some new columnists
Develop an “app”
Stop laying off journalists

For more details on each step, see &#8216;Five things newspapers should be doing&#8216;.
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		<link>http://bdionescu.com/2010/01/fix-your-newspaper-in-five-easy-steps/</link>
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		<title>Perks of the job</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Over the last few days, a couple of my posts have been quite controversial. Readers have been flooding in, voting (using the thumbs up/down system on PC World) and commenting. The two posts in question are:

Why the Nexus One Makes Other Android Phones Obsolete
Why the Microsoft-HP Tablet Is a Big Disappointment

Some of the comments have been [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bdionescu.com/2010/01/perks-of-the-job/</link>
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		<title>A few thoughts on Guardian&#8217;s iPhone app</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It finally here: the Guardian has launched its long-overdue iPhone app (iTunes link). As expected, it&#8217;s not free, but it&#8217;s not cheap either &#8212; £2.39 ($3.88). To put into perspective, CNN&#8217;s iPhone app is $1.99 (unavailable in the UK) and the New York Times&#8217; app is free.
I had a quick wander through the app, and I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bdionescu.com/2009/12/a-few-thoughts-on-guardians-iphone-app/</link>
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		<title>The death and life of newspapers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[While researching for my dissertation, I stumbled across this great analysis. Below is an excerpt.
&#8220;Most managers in the [newspaper] industry have reacted to the collapse of their business model with a spiral of budget cuts, bureau closings, buyouts, layoffs, and reductions in page size and column inches. Since 1990, a quarter of all American newspaper [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bdionescu.com/2009/12/the-death-and-life-of-newspapers/</link>
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		<title>Back</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My site was down for a few days now. Apparently my hosting company updated their PHP and some plugin clashed.
Fortunately, it&#8217;s back up now, so I will update with my latest stuff in due course.
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		<link>http://bdionescu.com/2009/12/back/</link>
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		<title>Pushing coverage beyond breaking news</title>
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&#8220;What journalism and the public most need right now is serious, continuing coverage of matters of public importance: city halls, school systems, statehouses. Journalism schools are not fully equipped to provide that now, but the logistical and financial difficulty of equipping them to do so would be far less than the difficulty of creating and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bdionescu.com/2009/11/pushing-coverage-beyond-breaking-news/</link>
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		<title>iPhone worm, no more hackintosh netbooks and banned chipped Xbox 360s</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The week in tech with my posts in the Today@PC World section:
YouTube Goes High Definition with 1080p Videos
YouTube says it will start supporting 1080p high-definition video in full resolution starting next week. The Google-owned video-sharing site will add support for viewing videos in 720p or 1080p resolutions, depending on the resolution of the original source.
Microsoft Bans [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bdionescu.com/2009/11/iphone-worm-no-more-hackintosh-netbooks-and-banned-chipped-xbox-360s/</link>
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		<title>iPhone vs. Kindle vs. Droid vs. BlackBerry and Beatles on USB</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Verizon&#8217;s Motorola Droid kept on making headlines this week, but Apple might just have found a way to maintain the iPhone&#8217;s lead. Here are my stories this week on Today@PCWorld:
iPhone as an eBook Reader Threatens Kindle, Says Report
Apple&#8217;s iPhone is quickly becoming the ebook reader of choice for many, and could steal market share from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bdionescu.com/2009/11/iphone-vs-kindle-vs-droid-vs-blackberry-madness-and-beatles-on-usb/</link>
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		<title>Pitching tomorrow&#8217;s paper today, with news from yesterday</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My local newspaper, The Lincolnshire Echo, whose online practices I criticised before, is pitching tomorrow&#8217;s newspaper today, with news from yesterday. Let me explain:
In an article on their website on Wednesday, November 4 2009, sensationally headlined &#8216;City&#8217;s binge drinking crisis&#8216;, there are only (exactly) 50 words of text, which are trying to sell me the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bdionescu.com/2009/11/pitching-tomorrows-paper-today-with-news-from-yesterday/</link>
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		<title>Verizon Moto Droid revealed, Palm and iTunes hatred and BlackBerry Storm 2 underwhelms</title>
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Is Motorola back in the game? Looking at the upcoming Droid smartphone (above), one might say it is. I&#8217;m just not convinced whether it is really the Droid creating all the hype or the 2.0 version of the Google Android mobile operating system powering it. Best wishes go to Research In Motion, whose BlackBerry Storm [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bdionescu.com/2009/11/verizon-moto-droid-revealed-palm-and-itunes-hatred-and-blackberry-storm-2-underwhelms/</link>
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		<title>Windows 7, Droid, Nook and Apple gear</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Quite a few big announcements this week, such as the Nook e-reader, new Macs, a cool Google Android phone from Motorola and Windows 7 launch jazz. Here are my articles from the Today@PCWorld section this week.
Apple slams Windows 7 in ads
Not only Microsoft is celebrating the launch of Windows 7 with some new ads, but [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bdionescu.com/2009/10/windows-7-droid-nook-and-apple-gear/</link>
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		<title>Windows 7 is out today</title>
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Pretty comprehensive reviews from Harry McCracken (PC World), David Pogue (NYT) and Walt Mossberg (WSJ).
All three are mainly Mac users, like myself. Bottom line: once you go Mac, you never go back (no pun intended).
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		<link>http://bdionescu.com/2009/10/windows-7-is-out-today/</link>
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