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Going Online: Be Brave (from 2008)

10 years I wrote something about restructuring editorial teams for digital, but lacked the courage to publish it. I should have found the courage.

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Is Twitter conversation or publication?

How Twitter went bad: In other words, on Twitter, people say things that they think of as ephemeral and chatty. Their utterances are then treated as unequivocal political statements by

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Twitter: change the culture, change the platform

Emily Bell on the consequences of replacing Twitter’s stars – “favourites” – with hearts – “likes”: I found myself not bookmarking, as I would have done a day earlier, a horrifying image

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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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Meaning - Stefania Druga: Saving the world, one play session at a time

Warning: Liveblogging. Prone to error, inaccuracy and terrible, terrible crimes against grammar. This post will be improved over the next 24 hours Stefania Druga equips people to solve their own problems through making and play Growing up as a girl in Transylvania, Stefania was

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Meaning - Mark Stevenson: the future and how to survive it

Warning: Liveblogging. Prone to error, inaccuracy and terrible, terrible crimes against grammar. This post will be improved over the next 24 hours Mark Stevenson is a cultural change consultant. Douglas Adams said that there were three types of technology: The tech that was invented

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Obligatory #gamergate post

Seriously abbreviated version of the #gamergate mess: A bunch of predominantly male gamers are using “concerns about the ethics of games journalism” as a shield for a series of deeply misogynistic attacks on prominent women developers, critics and even celebrities. Does game journalism have

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The Marvel comic that sells more digitally than in print

Here’s something else from outside the mainstream of publishing you might find interesting: Ms Marvel recently went to its sixth printing, a rare accomplishment in comics today. But chatting with Marvel executives at San Diego Comic Con I discovered more. That it sells

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Taylor Swift, and the value of your Twitter followers

Big surprise of last week: Taylor Swift had some really interesting thoughts about the intersection of tech and commercial art in a piece for the WSJ: There are a few things I have witnessed becoming obsolete in the past few years, the first being

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A tipping point in mobile phone etiquette?

Interesting idea in a New York Times Bits blog interview with the woman behind the I Forgot My Phone video: Ms. deGuzman’s video may have landed at one of those cultural moments when people start questioning if something has gone too far and

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The BBC, Savile and editors under pressure

Charlie Beckett makes an insightful point about last night’s Panorama covering the BBC’s multiple failures to expose Jimmy Savile as a paedophile and sexual predator: Likewise, let’s put the Newsnight controversy in perspective. The Newsnight debacle is familiar to anyone who’

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Spam, technology and a bloody tough week

It’s the end of a long working week, one that has been dominated by behavioural problems masquerading as technical ones. We’ve had a number of very intense spam attacks on our blog farm here, and it’s taken both a number of