More Red Sea – this time the changes in circulation numbers for Newspapers. The charts show the difference in readership between 2007/8 and 2008/9. Once again these are supplied by Roy Morgan. I’ve put the Sundays, which is once-weekly and not a daily average, into the same charts. Click on the images for larger versions. …
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NZ Magazine Readership numbers
The Roy Morgan newspaper and magazine readership numbers are out. I created some charts to read the Magazine numbers better – so here they are. They show the differences between 2007/8 and 2008/9 readership numbers. Click on the images for larger versions. Check out the Newspaper readership charts post as well. It’s a sea of …
News from afar – patience required
After the comments in the last post I decided to find some numbers behind the Mozambique experience of Stuff and NZHerald. Happily the Stuff website eventually came back up. However the experience is less than stellar. My first test shows the home page took 22 seconds to load. Another attempt a few minutes later (done …
The 31 reasons that inflight wifi is not making money
From the WSJ we hear that sales for inflight wifi have been disappointing. It seems that when you give it away the usage is pretty high, but things change when there is a price: “.. in tests and now in regular service, usage drops off considerably when travelers must pay for the service. Alaska Airlines …
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My lousy business model
Bryan Spondre keeps calling me out as a Grumpy Blogger – and it seems I am even up for an award. It’s true, and what’s worse is that I tend to rail on the businesses that I work with – who would want to be my bank, for example? However it also seems that some …
It’s the internet – so link to each other
Well done to Russell Brown over at Public Address (I said they write well) for breaking the story on the Kids Can Stand Tall debacle. It’s a good scoop after some digging into the history of the Telethon beneficiary. I won’t repeat it here – but I will get grumpy instead. I found Russell’s post …
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Phishing on Twitter
I received this DM from Wellington’s @andrewfantastic this morning: Given the state of affairs with the NBR and so forth, I clicked on the link – hoping to see a lovely rant. T’was not to be – instead Safari gave me this: The URL is and if you click through the warnings then you will …
NBR increases sales
It appears as though I made it to the front page of the NBR today. It was in an article written to defend the seemingly arbitrary and certainly poorly implemented decision last week to charge outrageous fees for access to a part of NBR’s online content: NBR publisher Barry Colman said the service was introduced …
Analysis or Opinion, Faith or Facts?
I had a good email exchange yesterday with a friend. It started after the Tuesday post on improvement – and my comment about switching from MYOB to Xero. My friend is a big MYOB fan, and challenged the assertion that Xero is better. Now I happen to believe Xero is better as a result of …
NBR continues their descent into madness
Here’s NBR homepage, above the fold, this morning. I’ve helpfully crossed out in red the articles that are subscriber only, and in black the one article that has a bad link (which I suspect would be subscriber only anyway). Note that the articles in the Most Popular section on the right are all also in …
Weatherston Guilty of murder – before jury returns
Complete with quotes from the family – here is, via Google, premature article from The Press on Weatherston’s guilty murder verdict. (Hat Tip to @rachel_a) Accidents do happen in the editorial room (I’ve done it myself) and as these things go it’s not a bad one. It was published at 11:45, which was, it seems, …
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Today’s news is fluffy
The front pages of both Stuff and NZHerald today are a sad indictment of both media in NZ and of what readers want to read. Let’s look at them article by article – and to do so I’ve helpfully colour coded the homepages for each. I’ve sampled each page this morning above the fold on …
Lance Wiggs 