The art and craft of the personal blog — and the business of blogging as part of the creator economy.
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Now, that’s a challenge for existing editorial teams, where the editor is used to being essentially a despotic ruler, with the desk heads as the high priests*. It requires the editor to stop being a director, but move more into a conductor role, where they make sure that the
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[https://i2.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2009/06/IMG_0552.jpg] I’ve realised why I’ve not been blogging here much of late. Initially, I thought it was because I was just plain busy – but that’s not true. Busyness has never stopped me before. I
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Thoughts on a busy day in publishing.
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Especially when life looks like this…
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Hectic day. Just wanted to link a couple of things I’ve been involved with: * Helped get a new blog live [http://www.estatesgazette.com/blogs/focus/] for Estates Gazette * Got involved in an interesting discussion over the nature of blogging [http://www.leafshine.net/2009/05/leafys-blogging-bootcamp-the-10-basics.html] over
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“Moderation in everything,” my late mother used to say, somewhat ironically given how much unused wool and unpainted china she left behind. But, like many clichés, it has a deep element of truth, as I’ve discovered by disconnecting somewhat from my normal blogging-twittering-photographing lifestyle. A quiet weekend with friends
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Two user cases:1. One is a single-user (guys does 5,000 person baseball live rumours chat). Pricing for him ~$25. 2. Multiple authors – media organisations. ~$100 for them.Tiers are based on how often you use it and audience sizes.25m page views in recent months. Page views are
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[https://i1.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2009/05/DSCF1015.jpg] Doodle done by one of the attendees at our Online Communities workshop
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[https://i1.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2009/05/ftarena.png] An e-mail dropped into my inbox last week, encouraging me to have a peek at FT Arena [http://blogs.ft.com/arena/], a blog on the Financial Times site that allows readers to join in a debate
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I’ve had one of those roller-coaster ride first day back at work sort of days. We are most certainly in a time of rapid change… However, I can’t let the day pass without saying a big thank you to my guest bloggers while I was away: 1. James
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And with this I move to technology, the thing that Adam actually asked me to talk about. The use of technology is also such an exciting part of working on the web. There really is a movable feast of widgets, infographics and applications out there to explore to make information
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This is a guest post by Tim Relf, a former journalistic colleague who also writes under the name TR Richmond [https://twitter.com/trrichmondbooks]. His new novelWhat She Left [http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0718179366/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1634&creative=19450&