Simon Bisson has written a handy piece for the Guardian giving an overview of the software available to protect your business’ e-mail and how and why to deploy it.
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15 September 2003
I have started to notice increasingly how people tend to assume that everyone tends to be like them – I’m no different. Down our street there is a substantial minority of people using Ocado – probably two or three a day, and they’re who we use as well. When we aren’t using them we use Sainsbury’s Online. But our neighborhood is totally atypical of the UK at large.
According to this article Ocado only gets 8,000 orders a week from across the whole UK and is therefore much smaller than Tesco’s home delivery which gets > 110,000 orders a week. If I had to guess I would have supposed as many as ten percent of people in the UK get groceries delivered online, and a quarter of those got them through Ocado. In reality it’s very roughly 1% of people ordering groceries online and 1% of those ordering via Ocado.
When I “posted earlier”:https://blog.org/archives/cat_online_media.html#000877 about The New Standard I forgot to mention another interesting example of alternative media different both from the IndyMedia and The New Standard styles. OhMyNews, a newspaper from South Korea, has thousands of “citizen reporters”. These get paid and go through the conventional editorial process but the pay is less than for conventional journalism and no credentials are necessary. This would seem to allow for the kind of “native reporting” (reporting by “ordinary people” and those directly involved in news events) that Chris Atton and others find a particularly appealling function of the new alternative media while preserving some of the quality standards that ensure good material is read and bad material hidden or discarded.
Significantly, OhMyNews seems to be successful as a business and a social phenomenon, though this may be in part simply because South Korea is one of the most wired countries in the world.
