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 all the whizzy bang-y social media we’ve invented these…
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A collection of 22 posts
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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……
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…
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…