Some parts of africa have been connected to the internet, africa could be changed hugely if the internet takes of

The internet could be considered a brain, one of the smartest in the world.

"the web is connecting humanity" - tim berners lee

HAVE SAND HAVE NOTS

• 2 billion of us are online
• Bill gate states it "how man kind communicates"
• EMPOWERING TOOL (Al Gore)
• challenge authority VS. spying sensorship

internet and levelling...

The web allows information to be shared for free

• wikipedia aloows knowledge to be shaped together (involvement)
• The well - withoutthis facebook twitter would not have been possible 

The internet has been compared to the industrial revolution, being just as or even more important than it.

wikipedia - accuracy free ordinary people, undercuts authority

LIBERTARIANISM ~(hippie mentality )

• ushahihi- posting up examples of riots and abuse
• The web and the internet are two different things
• 1965 emails where made
• the story of the internet started a century ago

tim berners gave the internet away for free and made no profit

The us military came up with the idea of the internet

• URL - unique address for a document
• HTML - the universal language of the internet

99 -  nAPSTER WAS CREATED ALLOWING MUSIC TO BE ILLEGALLY DOWNLOADED, it went viral and everybody broke the law for free music.

UGC - 2005 youtube allows anyone to be seen

Why Mail Online's 'terracotta army' is winning the digital war

the mail onlines following is huge and succesfull

"They certainly appear to be winning the digital war in terms of traffic volume, and by a considerable margin. Unfortunately, as with all armies, maintaining discipline is often problematic."

One eye-popping statistic is that the staffing has increased from 300 in September last year to 460 now (of which 100 are based in the US)

there is also controversy over the nature of the site's content which attracts the most hits - the so-called "sidebar of shame".

It is replete with under-dressed celebrities not doing much of interest and not saying anything worthwhile. But it is undeniably popular. Gossip and glamour sell.

So there is an obvious disconnect between the Mail print titles and Mail Online's most-read content. It is a bold strategy and, thus far, it has been very successful.

I believe that the mail online has been able to adapt to the change in platforms very swiftly and successfully and with more ease than any other paper, this is why they are more successful than any others.

NDM 25/11/13

Virgin Galactic to accept Bitcoin for space flights

Richard branson accepts the BitCoin currency as a form of payment for his space shuttle experience.

BitCoin is  a crypto currency which is solely based on the internet and has no central bank, they currency is formed by algorithmic problems being solve by BitCoin miners, some people call bit coin a highly unstable currency, however some say its the currency that can stop inflation, bit coins has reached lows of under 100$ and last week hit a high of 700$ per bit coin.

Richard branson states, “I have invested in some bitcoins myself and find it fascinating how a whole new global currency has been created,” Branson said. “For people who can afford to invest a little in bitcoins, it’s worth looking into.”

Flights on Virgin Galactic cost $250,000; passengers can cancel up to three months before departure

I believe that this is a great idea, however branson might be making a huge loss, as it is a time consuming process to convert btc into us dollars and during this time he the worth of bitcoin may drop.

Bitcoin seems like a promising currency however, i dont really see any use for it then to make more money that already exists, i have my self invested in btc only to make more gbp, notable thing btc has been used for is the transaction of drugs anonymously etc... so this could have stained its name

NDM SUMMARY 14/11/13

16/9/13  pirated and illegal downloading of music

23/9/13 Social media: $10.5bn for 140 characters? Twitter floats. #bargain

30/9/13: IOS 7 BUG

21/10/13: Argos MyTablet review

4/11/13:TV Christmas adverts battle moves online as shops target social media.

11/11/13: Abandon digital radio switchover plans, stations tell minister.

18/11/13:Sun Online finds it hard to hit the net.
Crowdfund this: Rubicon's £200 3D scanner.


WWW: Good range of storys, fairly consist work through out the weeks

EBI: must do 2 storys EVERY week, and my comment on the story's should be more in depth.

Sun Online finds it hard to hit the net.

The first figures since the paper put up its paywall show a heavy 30% drop in audience, despite the promise of goals on demand

• Sun Online had a digital total of 6,244,489
• 2,389,764 arriving by smartphone or pad alone
• with a unique total at 4,188,720

The Sun seem to be basing there business model on football fans, with prices of football tickets and tv subscribtions being at an all time high, it would be very hard for football fans to keep up with all these subscriptions, however due to the fact that they are making money of the users and not the advertiseing adds a benefit to the payway, also they would make substantially more money from their readers so this means the 30% drop may not have affected their revenue as much.

Crowdfund this: Rubicon's £200 3D scanner.

Getting real-life objects converted into 3D models is an expensive affair often costing in excess of £1000, something the £200 Rubicon 3D aims to fix.

compared to most other 3D scanners on the market, including the MakerBot Digitizer, the Rubicon 3D is one-quarter of the cost, while operating faster and with a similar accuracy. It is also compact and simple to use, making 3D object scanning quick and easy.

• costs only £200
• easy to use
• only scans small products
• uses a webcam available to everyone

I believe this technology is great as 3d printing is coming to our homes very soon, it is the future of technology and this is the start of something big as the £200 price tag is not hefty at all.

people will be able to use these scans for cad 3d designs and animation too.

also the fact that ordinary people re able to fund this project through kick-starter is a new technology platform in itself, where people pledge however much they can afford to make projects happen, and if they pledge enough the could receive rewards including the product itself for a fraction of the rrp.

weekly ndm 30th sept

The new iOS 7 version update was released not too far ago and had a flaw in the unlock screen allowing people to bypass the security and hack into their content this was recently updated.

the bug was because of a weakness in the iOS7 control center, allowing people to hit a certain pattern of button

WEEKLY NDM 11/11/13

Abandon digital radio switchover plans, stations tell minister.

Stations tell the government not to make the radio switch to digital as there are still many people using analogue, this could cost stations and radio users hundreds of pounds otherwise. this poses a serious risk of listeners loosing their access to radio stations.
The group is made up of 13 commercial companies including UTV-owned national sports station TalkSport and Celador Radio run by Paul Smith, the man behind ITV's Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?. 
Scott Taunton says there is no real benefit to changing over to digital, there is no demand in the market and listeners are happy with the service they are provide at this time.

• The consortium representing 80 stations across the UK listened to by 6 million people a week
• there are about 100m analogue sets still in use in UK homes.
• A total of 35.6% of all radio listening was on digital platforms in the third quarter of this year

I believe there is no useful reason to change over to digital radio, as of now the only people who use it are the people who are set in their ways of using the device, this may upset many of the elderly citizens of the uk, the next generation will not need radio soon it may die out.

usvsth3m

"We feel strongly that traditional media have given up on young people, and have not made a commitment to tell stories that are interesting for people under 40 or 50 years old," said Steinberg.

BuzzFeed now has more than 100 full-time writers, with a growing proportion focusing on news and politics. Steinberg said that around 40% of the site's traffic comes from links shared on Facebook, and 70% from social sources in general.

weekly ndm 4/11/2013

TV Christmas adverts battle moves online as shops target social media.

At the end of the week, retailers will have launched their festive campaigns, this year they are spending a lot more online to mirror spending habbits.

• retailers will spend around £390m in the last three months of 2013
• Littlewoods, the Co-op and Waitrose have launched their campaigns in the last few days, and John Lewis, Marks & Spencer and Debenhams will all be screening their first Christmas adverts this week.
• Morrinsons are expected to spend about 9% more on television than last year, with an expensive scramble for the prized slots around the X Factor final on ITV in the second weekend in December.

Overall I believe that the retail companies are on the right direction with the advertising, they are changing with the times and making sure that their audiences are targeted where they are the most.

this can help bring in more revenue into the economy instead of people buying things from shops that are owned by Americans etc.

readers comments

Great, so now even less of a chance of clicking a link on a web page successfully first time, with all the incessant and irritating jumping up and down pages often do these days while loading, with so many banner adverts.

I remember the good old days of basic html pages and wind-up computers.

The adverts are pretty, but a Christmas built on debt will turn to dust - best to avoid the temptation if you can, and share what you have with friends and family.