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[](http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/Photo 29 May 2012 09:45.jpg)**Rob Grimshaw, managing director, FT.com**Liveblogged notes – prone to inaccuracies and howling grammatical errors Just had first hack day at the FT. The winning hack
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Missed this interesting paywall post [http://johnlrobinson.com/2012/05/newspaper-paywalls-using-band-aids-on-a-bullet-wound/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=newspaper-paywalls-using-band-aids-on-a-bullet-wound] while I was at Like Minds last week: > I asked my class of 20-year-old Elon University students how many were on Facebook. All 33 raised their hands.
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Matthew Ingram has written a typically thoughtful and insightful piece about the bind newspaper publishers find themselves in [http://gigaom.com/2012/04/03/why-digital-native-media-will-almost-always-win/], all inspired by this graph from LinkedIn [http://blog.linkedin.com/2012/03/08/economic-report/]: [https://i1.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2012/
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[https://i1.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2012/04/keyboard.jpg] I found an interesting piece on content strategy via Stowe Boyd [http://www.stoweboyd.com/post/20404611102/the-rise-of-the-content-strategist-cheryl-lowry-via] this morning. Cheryl Lowry [http://cheryllowry.com/] goes into some detail about the rise of the content strategist [http:
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In a surprise move, Twitter have acquired blogging site Posterous [http://blog.twitter.com/2012/03/welcoming-posterous-team-to-flock.html]. The question of course, is: “why?” The information from the companies is pretty vague [http://blog.posterous.com/big-news]. Guess 1: (the view held by my Twitter community) It’s a pure
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* Matteo Berlucchi, Chief Executive Officer, aNobii [http://www.anobii.com/anobi/anobii_home.php] * Santiago de la Mora, Director, Print Content Partnerships EMEA, Google * Tim Hely Hutchinson, Group Chief Executive, Hachette UK [http://www.hachette.com] * Michael Serbinis, Chief Executive Officer, Kobo Moderated by Richard Waters Michael Serbinis – They’ve
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Well, this is certainly an alternative business model for magazines [http://www.wwd.com/media-news/fashion-memopad/wired-for-profit-5733735]: > The U.K. edition of Wired magazine is getting into the consulting business — and the editors are doing the heavy lifting. Condé Nast U.K. said Thursday that Wired Consulting will be
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Ron Diorio, VP of business development & innovation director, Economist Media Group [https://i0.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2012/02/rondiorio.jpg] What is a platform? asked Ron, rattling through a list of OSes, apps and social networks, to a mixed response from the audience – there was
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I wonder how long scientific publishers can cling to their existing models when they’re eliciting this level of active hostility from their customers [http://gowers.wordpress.com/2012/01/21/elsevier-my-part-in-its-downfall/]: > Once I did hear about Elsevier’s behaviour, I made a conscious decision not to publish in
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[](https://i1.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2011/10/safariextensionsgallery.png) So, I wondered over to the [Safari Extensions Gallery](https://extensions.apple.com/) to grab the [new Evernote
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A guest poster on Fleet Street Blues [http://fleetstreetblues.blogspot.com/2011/08/could-mutually-agreed-paywall-secure.html] : > What perhaps we need is for all the warring media factions to lay down their arms. Instead of The Times vainly pursuing online subscribers while its competitors watch it haemorrhage the kind of money
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It’s the tail end of the day, and I’m just emerging from a long meeting with my boss. It was a good meeting, but I’m tired and ready for a weekend. And then reception calls. A very puzzled security guy tells me there’s someone down there
