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The end of an era at RBI (nearly)

With the disposal of Farmers Weekly, my former employer is all but out of the journalism business.

B2B publishers no more

From Patrick Smith’s Media Briefing e-mail a couple of weeks ago(it was two days after my daughter was born, so I was a bit too busy to read it back then 😉 ) : In this context, should I stop saying “publisher” to refer to

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aggregation

Why traditional publishers can't soothe the crying baby

I feel rather bad for my colleagues in the national newspaper business this morning. As they trek into their plush central London office, sipping their lattes1, they find the world predicting their doom and destruction. Frédéric Filloux treads a familiar path, contrasting the transitional

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disposals

RBI sheds TotalJobs

I saw some search traffic hitting my blog this morning for “TotalJobs divestment”. Now I know why: Reed Business Information’s sell-offs really aren’t over yet. Now it is selling the UK’s number-two job classifieds site, TotalJobs, to German publisher Axel Springer’

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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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office life

An Ending

[![Au Revoir](https://i1.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2011/12/IMG_1476-thumb-520x390-2277.jpg?resize=520%2C390)](https://i2.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2011/12/IMG_1476.jpg)

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jobhunt

Wanted: New Challenges

Yesterday, I returned from my best holiday in years, refreshed, revitalised and ready for the challenges ahead. Our blog platform needed revamping, there was a ton of mobile strategy work to be done, we needed to brainstorm easy win funnel content for one of

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flightglobal

Covering air shows, the RBI way

I posted this on Twitter last week, but I think it’s worth reposting here. Here’s how FlightGlobal moves a whole chunk of its publishing operations to air shows, so they can maximise their coverage: [via Runway Girl]

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community care

Maybe I should have a caption competition...

Just an ordinary day in the* Community Care* office, with the team wearing the regulation head temperature maintenance gear, as approved by occupational health…Oh, all right. They’re helping [publicise Woolly Hat day](http://www.communitycare.co.uk/blogs/mental-health/2011/09/community-care-staff-show-supp.

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estates gazette

Estates Gazette launches iPad app

The good folks at Estates Gazette have launched their first iPad app. The Special Edition focuses around the property issues (and property people) involved in sporting events like the Olympic Games, coming to a London near you next year. There’s a real mix

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computer weekly

A few changes at RBI

![Computer Weekly & Microscope](http://www.onemanandhisblog.com//Photo Mar 30, 16 58 13.jpg "Photo Mar 30, 16 58 13.jpg") Patrick Smith does some analysis of changes here at RBI following the sale of Computer Weekly and Microscope. Some interesting

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computer weekly

Vale Computer Weekly

I didn’t want to let the working day end without a quick post to acknowledge the news that RBI – my employer – is in the process of concluding a sale of Computer Weekly and Microscope to TechTarget. Obviously, there’s not a huge amount

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data journalism

Hacks and Hackers in video

Rachel from journalism.co.uk has done a rather lovely video feature of the RBI-hosted hacks and hackers day from earlier in the week:

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Elevenses

Elevenses Reborn

Just a photo post, really, marking the rebirth of our internal Elevenses knowledge-sharing sessions, now under the steady hand of Mr Martin Couzins: ![Martin Presents, Tim Listens](http://www.onemanandhisblog.com//IMG_5019 - Version 2.jpg "IMG_5019 - Version 2.jpg&

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data journalism

Hacks & Hackers & RBI

Judith’s just posted the news to the Scraperwiki blog: RBI’s hosting a Hacks & Hackers sessions here in Quadrant House. For those unfamiliar with the concept, the hack days are designed to bring together “hacks” – journalists – and “hackers” – developers – to build interesting