Craig McGinty

Cheapflights touched by an angel

JOURNALIST Hugh Fraser gives the Cheapflights blog-style site I am currently working on a hearty slap on the back.

Writing on his Angel Blog he says that it is great to see a UK-based company take to blogging and providing useful information for site visitors.

Interestingly, Hugh actually wrote about Cheapflights five years ago when working for The Telegraph

Have Storynory will travel

THE rowing appeal of podcasts and their ease of listening has been recognised by the creators of the Storynory website.

On it you can listen to a selection of fairy tales aimed at young children, which can be downloaded to any MP3 player.

It is also a simple enough job to burn a story to a CD and pop it in the car whilst driving, ensuring the kids are kept happy as the miles tick by.

Dailies' last gasp to boost sales

THE latest newspaper sales figures for national titles in the UK show an average of 11.3 million copies are bought each day.

This is the lowest total in half a century writes The Telegraph's Roy Greenslade.

There is no doubt that national newspapers are well aware that their days are numbered, in fact Roy Greenslade believes there will only be a handful of dailies in a few years.

What will be interesting to see is if local newspapers look at these figures and think they will have to do more to progress to the internet and offer other methods of accessing news.

Some of the national titles are able to afford to experiment and try things out, but whilst local papers struggle to sanction the slightest investment I doubt they will change very soon.

 

Google heads to Manchester

GOOGLE are to base an office in Manchester that will serve advertisers in the Midlands, Northern England, Wales and Scotland.

The search engine giant aims to help businesses get the most out of online advertising with their targeted Adwords system.

This allows people to pay for advertising that is linked to the keywords people use when searching online and is only charged when an actual click on the advert occurs.

Kate Burns, of Google, said:  "Manchester is the north's creative capital with 70,000 employed in advertising, marketing, IT and the media.

"Coming to the city was an easy choice to make - we believe it offers the right environment for Google to extend its services across the UK."