Free Post content strategy Vox's evergreen journalism back in stock Vox remains one of the most interesting experiments in digital journalism , because it’s so very aggressive in stepping away from the “flow” of traditional print news, and into creating “stock” evergreen content for the site. Their latest experiment saw them spend a week
Free Post diversity Diversity makes for better journalism Today was a good day. A hard and difficult day, to be sure, but a good day. Around teaching the Newspaper MA students, and a meeting with Jon and Ben about the Interactive MA, I was with the Financial Journalism MA students at city,
Free Post 31-3-14 31-3.8 - Journalism will survive - but you might not recognise it Don’t you hate it when somebody leading a journalism business slips into jargon? Sarah Lacy of PandoDaily does exactly that when quoted in a Quartz piece on why funding is piling into new journalism ventures: “Suddenly, the market for content just opened up,
Free Post ezra klein Vox: from blog platform to Ezra Klein's Project X Remember when everyone talked about bloggers replacing the mainstream media? Watch this video: Yes, Ezra Klein, blogger turned journalist, is launching his new “explainer” site at vox.com – formerly the home of the deceased blogging platform Vox. From the ashes of blogging rises a
Free Post blogging Lessons from the death of Vox Last Thursday, I opened Safari, and found a death notice. Vox, a blogging platform I’ve used for four years, was on death row. At the end of this month, it dies. I used to love Vox. Up until mid-2008 I was an enthusiastic
Free Post blog platforms Six Apart Upgrades Vox Six Apart have just updated Vox, their consumer blogging platform with a social networking bent. It’s notabley faster to use, and now you can embed any video, photo or audio you upload elsewhere, which is rather cool. For example, here’s a video
Free Post blog platforms Six Apart on Future Blogging I’m not a huge fan of Robert Scoble‘s very static video interview style (I don’t think he really takes advantage of the visual nature of the medium), but this interview with some folks from Six Apart is worth a watch, if
Free Post admin Testing Crossposting Just testing a Movable Type plugin to cross-post to Vox. 
Free Post comments MT4 Thoughts: Commenting First thing that I’ve discovered in Movable Type 4 that makes me really, really happy: comment registration. You can actually sign up to be a registered commenter on any MT blog natively under version 4 – and those user accounts can be upgraded to
Free Post blogs Six Apart: A Blog Toolbox for Diverse Blogs? When blogging first hit the mainstream media consciousness (and by that I mean “articles appeared in the nationals”, not “individual journalists started experimenting with blogs”), the image they portrayed of blogging was usually of the bedroom journalist, posting his online diary in his underwear.
Free Post blog platforms Le Web 3: Mena Trott Mena Trott, star of last year’s big controversy is on stage, giving a very, very quick presentations on what Six Apart has learnt about social blogging. Main points: Personal blogging is probably bigger than “publishing to the world” blogging. It’s not just
Free Post community Le Web 3: LinkedIn to the Future? Reid Hoffman, one of the founders of LinkedIn, is giving a rambling vision of the future, so I’m going to match it with a rambling summary of what he’s saying. What does everyone being a publisher mean? Everyone will have some sort
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Free Post blog platforms Vox-up: the good and the bad Good news and bad on Vox, which is Six Apart‘s new blogging platform from talking to friends and family rather than publishing to the world. I was kindly provided with an invite to Vox’s starter level, which allows you to read protected
Free Post blogging Exciting Development (for a publishing geek) Ooh! Ooh! I just got an access code for Google Analytics. Now I can really analyse where my readers are coming from and what they’re reading. Yes, I am a publishing geek. Now all I need is a Vox pre-release invite…