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The Post-Blogging age

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 of textual and visual

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digital tools

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 and licence for the

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digital editions

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, choice of areas.

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metrics

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 magazine were and weren’

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journalism

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 reading a newspaper, they

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local newspapers

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 of an anonymous police

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content atomisation

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 what they read and

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blogging

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’t shrink, it would

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design

Mobile FT.com is a River of News

I have a pet theory, one that is not widely shared amongst my colleagues. I think that what we now know as news sites will come to resemble what we now know as blogs. I don’t mean this in the broader sense of

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journalism

Morning Coffee Reading - Speed Version

Here’s some quick links for today, with minimal commentary – because I’m meant to be on holiday. 🙂- It’s more than just the internet that’s changing journalism, it’s [a perfect storm of new technology](http://www.jacklail.com/blog/archives/

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digital journalism

Digital Journalism: The Time For Talk Is Done

I think – and I’ve heard many others echo the same thought back to me – that we have to stop talking about whether these tools are useful to journalists, and start using them to prove that they are. The danger we’re in right

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publishing

The Death of the Home Page

A few weeks back, the BBC published a report about Jakob Nielsen‘s latest findings about how web users operate. As Kristine pointed out, it had a dumb, dumb headline, but there were several real gems of information in there. Here’s one every

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innovation

Carnival of Journalism: The Reporting Instinct

You are going to deliver news to your readers via the internet. You break it on the web, you break it as soon as you have it, and you develop it online. And then, and only then, do you analyse, contextualise and develop it

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deadlines

Static Stories must give way to Live News

The next mindshift change journalists need to go through is that they no longer have a finished product. The issue is never complete. The feature is never done. The news is always evolving. And this is hard for us old-school hacks. If you were

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content

Your Site Doesn't Have a Homepage. Get Over It.

Old Media that’s got a little bit of New Media lip gloss on has a somewhat totemic attachment to the idea of “landing pages” – magic pages that will attract search traffic through their SEO gravity. These pages can actually be incredibly useful, as

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