This post by Casey Johnston on The Awl, is probably the best overview of the state of ad blocking and the threat to publishers that I’ve read: Welcome to the Block Party The internet after ad blocking by Casey Johnston September 14, 2015 In a 1997 segment on the short-lived tech TV show The Site, […]
Apple’s plans to block advertising in the Safari Web browser on iOS 9 is not necessarily being done first and foremost with consumers’ best interests at heart and could serve to undermine content producers. Later this year, Apple will release the latest version of its mobile operating system — iOS 9 — and, among the […]
If anyone is writing a case study about the unintended consequences of poor government policy and over-regulation, they’d be well advised to follow the disastrous story that has been South Africa’s migration from analogue to digital terrestrial television. South Africa’s migration from analogue to digital terrestrial television (DTT) has been glacial. Not only has the […]
Power is shifting from the mobile operators and into the hands of consumers, forcing the networks to become utilities competing on little more than price and service quality It seems that on a monthly basis we hear of a “revolution” in the mobile device industry, either from manufacturers touting the latest and greatest flagship smartphone […]