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Johnston Press survives — but at a human cost

Johnston Press has escaped its debts — but it leaves behind angry investors, and hits employees right in the pensions.

Why is the journalism business so dismissive of Medium's new model? An experiment.

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Why is the journalism business so dismissive of Medium's new model? An experiment.

This morning, I’ve written a 2,000 word blog post about journalism and publishing strategy. But, you’ll note, this is the first blog post on here today. What’

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Meaning - Bob Doak: the Gore cult of making money - and having fun

Warning: Liveblogging. Prone to error, inaccuracy and terrible, terrible crimes against grammar. This post will be improved over the next 24 hours Bob Doak works for WL Gore & Associates – a global business whose products you’ve probably worn. He’s a case study

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#leweb - Go wide, not deep says Gary Vaynerchuk

Allegedly Gary Vaynerchuk hadn’t slept for two days before his talk at LeWeb. I well believe it given how rambling it was. This isn’t a conventional chronological liveblog, as I’ve tried to gather together his thoughts into subject groups… Go deep

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#leweb - What will Bitcoin mean for you?

The Panel Moderator: James Currier Co-Founder, Ooga Labs & Curator of the NFX Conference for network effect businesses Garrick Hileman, Economic Historian, London School of Economics Shakil Khan, Spotify A potted history of Bitcoin 3000 years ago, people used gold and silver as currency.

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Google, killer of tools

Kevin Anderson: Google has had and then killed a number of extremely useful research tools for journalists, and Reader is just the latest. Search Timeline, which showed the frequency of a search term, was flawed but still extremely useful for research as a journalist.

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Evernote goes enterprise - a business class upgrade

Phil Libin is a regular at Le Web, and is known for giving hard facts and figures about the progress of the notebook app – as he did in London, in Paris in 2011 and 2010. And he gave some again, as not as many

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Dear Superman, about that blogging thing...

An open letter to Superman: Firstly, let’s talk money. I assume you are being paid at The Daily Planet? You are? Well being a blogger is slightly different. As a blogger, you are expected to eat your “raised profile” sleep under “increased traffic”

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Margaret Elliott wants Mutuality Forever!

*Catching up on my liveblogged notes from last week’s Meaning Conference – I ran out of laptop battery, so couldn’t post them at the time. * In 1976, Margaret and friends set up a workers co-operative called the Little Women Shop. They learnt new

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The SEO versus Content tension: a dialogue

Afternoon, Adam. You’ve been writing a lot about SEO lately. You got a problem with SEO? Goodness, no. I teach a course on SEO for Journalists for goodness’ sake. I wouldn’t be doing that if I didn’t believe SEO was valuable.

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Brighton's future as a smart city: finding a vision

Jason Kitcat, Leader, Brighton & Hove City Council Jason, as befits his position, gives us a pitch for why Brighton is so very great. He highlights Brighton’s position as

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Like Minds Exeter 2012 Liveblogs - day one

Links to my liveblogs of day one of Like Minds Exeter 2012**Morning session:**- [Russ Lidstone: Why what you do matters](http://wearelikeminds.com/like-minds-2012/russ-lidstone-why-what-you-do-matters) – Russ kicked off the “ideas festival” with a talk that played straight to the core issues of

John Rosling: is the chief executive the chief entrepreneur?

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John Rosling: is the chief executive the chief entrepreneur?

John Rosling, Shirlaws(site dead – find him on Twitter now) “Chief Executive or Chief Entrepreneur? The Future of Business Leadership” Based on a show of hands of the Like Minds

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Content Strategy: a filter of what, exactly?

I found an interesting piece on content strategy via Stowe Boyd this morning. Cheryl Lowry goes into some detail about the rise of the content strategist as a job title: Type “Content Strategist” into a job search engine and you’ll see plenty of

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The man with Apple's future in his hands

A personal account of the new Apple CEO from a former employee: Tim Cook is one of those rare people who stop and think before speaking. Standing in the same room with him I realized that he’s comfortable with silence as long as