business models
Journalism's Groundhog Day - the excuse that won't die Paid Members Public
[https://i2.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2013/08/groundhog-day-phil-connors.jpg] Today’s the day that all the old arguments about what’s gone wrong with journalism and publishing come out to play: David Higgerson has discovered that the “original sin” argument that giving away our content free
Feedly goes pro Paid Members Public
[https://i2.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2013/08/feedly-Pro.png] Encouraging news this morning. Feedly – my RSS reader of choice in this post-Google Reader age – has launched a Pro plan [http://thenextweb.com/apps/2013/08/05/feedly-launches-5-per-month-pro-membership-to-provide-enhanced-security-search-and-more/] . Well, semi-launched one, anyway. Pro accounts will be $5
Is Medium just a content farm? Paid Members Public
Is glossy, exciting new blogging site Medium just a content farm [https://medium.com/writers-on-writing/336300490cbb]? > But it all neatly glosses over one ugly fact: Medium is just an upscale version of the same old business model used by shady content farms the world around. And it contributes to
Think about reader quality, not content quantity Paid Members Public
Kevin Anderson refutes the “content quantity is king” blog post [http://charman-anderson.com/2013/07/01/digital-media-success-beyond-cranking-out-lots-of-low-cost-content/] I wrote about earlier [http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/2013/07/content-quality-quantity-productivity.html] : > However, it’s important to remember that volume of content is not the same as commercial success. The figures
Keep shovelling the content... Paid Members Public
A Digiday post on volume of content per full-time staff member [http://www.digiday.com/publishers/whos-winning-at-volume-in-publishing/] has been doing the rounds today: > Digiday looked at several publications — from stalwarts like the New York Times and Forbes to upstarts like Buzzfeed and The Awl — to see how much content
People love genre ebooks Paid Members Public
[https://i1.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2013/07/ebook-fanatasy-ibooks.jpg] Talking of eBooks, it appears that some categories of books are booming in digital formats [http://www.wired.com/underwire/2013/06/digital-publishing-genre-fiction/]: > “Certain categories [of eBooks] have a much larger digital adoption than others,” Dobson
LeWeb: Jeremiah Owyang's new corporate business model - sharing Paid Members Public
[https://i0.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2013/06/jeremiah-owyang.jpg] *Liveblog of Jeremiah Owyang at Le Web London 2013. Prone to inaccuracy and howling errors. Warning: here be typos. * What role do corporations have if people don’t want them or need them? A new economic model
Google, killer of tools Paid Members Public
[https://i1.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2013/03/wallet-time.jpg] Kevin Anderson [http://charman-anderson.com/2013/03/15/the-death-of-google-reader-taking-the-re-out-of-search/] : > Google has had and then killed a number of extremely useful research tools for journalists, and Reader is just the latest. Search Timeline, which showed the frequency
