links for 2013-08-13

13 August 2013 » No Comments

Media, Models and Markets

“The regional and local press is paying a high price for a decade in which cost-cutting took precedence over any strategic planning to face the challenge of online media… Plurality matters, but in a digital world - where the public has already found multiple sources of news beyond the local newspaper or radio station - there needs to be a smarter definition than those that were fit for purpose in the past.”

The flawed business strategy of local newspapers via, um, my former boss.

One Rotation Forwards, Two Rotations Back

“Despite the welcome new investment, Britain’s roads will remain fundamentally ill-suited for mass cycling and people on bikes will continue to die in terrifying numbers - 65 dead in London in the last 5 years alone”

@markbikeslondon on how the £77m cycling investment still leaves cycling infrastructure playing catch up with other road users.

Great Digital Folk Grab

252 songs, 1.1GB, all for FREE.

via the mighty@urban75.

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