Chris Cillizza, commenting on the reaction to Andrew Sullivan’s departure from blogging: But, again, a blog isn’t any one thing. For me, the idea of a blog — or blogging — that works is reported analysis told through a variety…
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Markdown versus CommonMark: the ambiguity and clarity dilemma
The “standard Markdown” controversy seems to be over and done. I was essentially offline for the weekend, and I came back to find that what was “Standard Markdown” has now become “CommonMark“, respecting Markdown co-creator creator John Gruber’s wishes…
An all-digital emphasis
Ah, things are getting interesting: Ziff Davis Enterprise has launched a new strategy called OmniDigital that will take the company all-digital with emphasis in four keys areas–traditional websites, mobile websites, tablets and digital editions. Revealing, and I think wise,…
Metrics begin where journalistic instinct ends
I have a theory that we place too much importance on instinct in journalism. There’s a good reason for that – back in the print days, we didn’t have much else to go on. Defining what elements of the…
What Publishers Need To Understand
One of the commenters on the Tim Luckhurst piece I posted about earlier hits the nail on the head: The model you have of your consumer’s behaviour is wrong, they aren’t using the internet as a way of…
What Will Media Look Like in Digital Britain?
Ah, the fuss around Digital Britain is growing, isn’t it? And I don’t just mean the report – I mean how Britain looks in a digital future. Events like a judge giving The Times approval to reveal the identity…
Entitlement, Page Views and Content Atomisation
I think, perhaps, that much of this sense of entitlement is rooted in the fact that magazine or newspaper packages conceal the popularity of each item within – people have to buy the whole package, and it’s hard to determine…
Death of News Media Announced (Please Send Flowers)
To add to the gathering clouds, Brian linked to this neatly-argued augury of DOOM (as did everybody else, as half an hour in my feed reader proved): The unthinkable scenario unfolded something like this: The ability to share content wouldn’…