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news

Why is online news still such a miserable experience?

Dave Winer asks a good question about the state of online news

The new original sin of online publishing

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analytics

The new original sin of online publishing

John Battelle thinks we actually figured out online publishing a decade ago – and then we screwed it up. How? We handed power to the social networks: Again, for emphasis: despite

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magazines

Medium just became an online magazine platform

An e-mail arrives from Medium, outlining the changes to their Collections (collections of articles posted on Medium): Collections will have now have three types of participants: Owner, editor, and writer. The owner is the person who created the collection and has full editing power,

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online publishing

Rethinking writing for the phone age

Craig Mod, interviewed at Nieman Journalism Lab: But the iterative component of the writing process, and also the flow of using the smartphone, that was really just coming from “how do we treat this, and what part of writing feels indigenous to a smartphone?

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Andrew Sullivan

Online publishing needs to get personal

Andrew Sullivan nails why traditional publishing brands struggle to bring their readers with them online, in a piece about personal migration on reading from print to digital forms: But it takes guts to actually make the change. An individual can, overnight. An institution is

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business models

Online publishing is not necessarily the next home of traditional publishers

Matthew Ingram has written a typically thoughtful and insightful piece about the bind newspaper publishers find themselves in, all inspired by this graph from LinkedIn: He suggests that the reason newspaper publishers languish at the bottom while online publishing is doing pretty well is

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blogging

Researching Media Law and Online Publishers

Judith Townend, she who has given up life at journalism.co.uk for PhDing, is running a survey around media law and online publishers/bloggers. Help academia flourish by filling it out, if you’d be so kind…

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echo chambers

Afternoon Coffee Reading - 10th May 2010

[![Reading the newspaper: Brookgreen Gardens in P...]()](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Brookgreen_reading_9739.JPG)Image via [Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Brookgreen_reading_9739.JPG) The “Parliament can go hang itself” edition… - [Where next for the Telegraph’s

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design

Covering Our Future (or where are the designers?)

I don’t write much about print on here, but long-time readers will know I’m not a “print is dead” type. I do believe that print will have to change and evolve to deal with the changing environment – much as theatre had to

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community management

Delete in Haste, Repent at Leisure

Great post from Martin Belam about transparency, criticism, publishing and the web: > *If you are going to make changes to your site in response to criticism, be transparent about it. ‘Stealth edits’ will only lead to people posting screen shots of how the page

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douglas adams

So Long, And Thanks For All The Print

Some really excellent advice here for publishers trying to get to grips with the structural change in the industry: > …let’s think about what might happen when magazine publishing is no longer a river in its own right, but is just a current in

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information architecture

Off the job training for online journalists

*Hi! I’m Rebecca Froley, deputy web editor of ComputerWeekly.com, and the first of Adam’s guest posters this week… Finally… Sorry for posting so late in the day! * How do you learn? It’s a question I’ve been asking myself since

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hackopalypse

Tuesday Afternoon Doom & Despair

[![Rolling thunderstorm (Cumulonimbus arcus)](https://i1.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2009/01/202px-Rolling-thunder-cloud.jpg?resize=202%2C134)](https://i2.wp.com/commons.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Rolling-thunder-cloud.jpg)Image via [Wikipedia](http://commons.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Rolling-thunder-cloud.jpg) Ah, the

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AOP

RBI Wins Big at AoP Awards

My employers RBI had a pretty good night at the [Association of Online Publishers Awards](http://www.ukaop.org.uk/cgi-bin/go.pl/news/article.html?uid=2083) yesterday, coming home with one quarter of the award on offer, including the one for best

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online publishing

Social Publishing and Ice Cream

Explaining the new era of publishing, using ice cream as a metaphor. Cool, creamy and delicious (or should that be del.icio.us?): [Social Media in Plain English](http://www.vimeo.com/1083838?pg=embed&sec=1083838) from [leelefever](http://www.vimeo.com/user230075?