‘Paywall’. For many years, these pejorative two syllables were the emotive barrier that held back a generation of digital readers from entering into mutually beneficial relationships with publishers. More evocative than accurate, they suggested a barrier, a blocker, rather than the need to pay a

The newspaper used to be the information destination par excellence. The papers were vast, their budgets were large and their monopoly uncontested. Once the internet arrived those destinations changed. Ever since that moment print media has been trying to defend its territory not just as a

Our presence on the internet is measured in footprints. These footprints take the ephemeral impact of our net-worthy selves and make them solid. Cast your mind back to the early carbon footprint questionnaires that converted your polluting output into massy kilos of guilt - the invisible was