Online ads not the license to print money they were for a while, so the internet is doomed. Right?
In the UK:
Enders, a research group, estimates that the UK online display advertising market was at best flat in the third quarter, compared with the same period last year. Growth rates in recent years have been double [...]

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Tuesday I went onto Ryan Tubridy’s programme on RTE Radio 1 to talk about some Cold War ‘ostalgia’ as the kids in Eastern Europe call it these days, along with Constantin Gurdgiev, editor emeritus of Business & Finance, economist and superb dancer. He grew up in the Soviet Union. I grew up in the United [...]

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Front page comment from the Sunday Independent on the economy (13 July 2008):
“We are, it’s true, caught in the economic cataclysm that has hit the developed world, but this dreadful cycle will, in time, come to an end, though nobody can say when…
The onset of the recession was, however, eminently predictable. Mr Cowen and [...]

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Brendan Keenan muses melancholic on our gilded Götterdämmerung but with two big what-ifs. What if Brian Cowen (or Charlie McCreevey) had rejigged incentives to promote more fixed rate mortgages as a hedge against ECB rate volatility/rates out of sync with local conditions? What if the department of finance treated the boom-related property taxes like the [...]

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Really interesting essay by Roy Clark on the overrepresentation of Irishness American journalism, occasioned by the death of Tim Russert.
There are more than a few bits to criticise - like lumping in Peggy Noonan with a bunch of mindless thugs, which was just thoughtless and unfair. And it just illuminates the space where there [...]

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Who’s to blame for the defeat of the Lisbon Treaty. Without an exit poll from the Irish media - and seriously, WTF? — there can only be guesses. Margot Wallstrom says that a Eurobarometer poll will be commissioned to tell them.
But in the meantime, let me suggest that tomorrow, while everyone in the Irish [...]

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Speaking of t’other O’Reilly, the be-knighted rather than benighted one, I had a fun discussion last night about Wednesday’s Independent News & Media smackdown on TV3 Nightly News with Vincent Browne, along with Fintan O’Toole and Sunday Times business editor Brian Carey. Carey I’ve never co-panelled with before; he’s very cool, very relaxed. I can [...]

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Take 10 minutes for a good view of how journalism is practiced at ground level. Bill Moyers gets ambushed at a media conference by Porter Barry, a producer for FOX News’ Bill O’Reilly. You have to wonder, though. A good idea to mix it with an old lion of liberal journalism in front of a [...]

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