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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A collection of 12 posts
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 people outside the conversation. Because there’s a kind of…
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 retweeted by journalists depicting men using phones to film a…
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’…
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…
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…
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.…
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…