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[http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/assets_c/2014/03/Anish-Kapoor7-3574.html] Two notable things from the FT’s 2013 results [http://aboutus.ft.com/2014/02/28/67012/#axzz2ubXzXlYB]: > The FT’s total circulation grew 8% year-on-year to 652,000 across print and online, the highest paying readership in
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You know that quote you always hear? > Information Wants To Be Free. It’s not the whole quote. Here’s the entirely of it [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_wants_to_be_free]: > Information Wants To Be Free. Information also wants to be expensive. …That tension will
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Politico examines how badly wrong newspaper experiments with video [http://www.politico.com/story/2014/02/live-video-wont-save-news-business-103819.html] have gone: > News organizations have learned that the traditional television model doesn’t pay online. It costs too much to shoot and produce, and requires too much from their reporters, who
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[http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/assets_c/2013/12/The%20Times%20Gin-3409.html] Since this press release arrived, I’ve been struggling to find the words to blog about it: > For immediate release December 18, The Times newspaper has today launched a new premium London Dry Gin, called The
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Phil Libin is always good value at LeWeb. He’s not only witty and a charming presenter, but he’s also pretty open with how his business is functioning. And that makes his talks fascinating. Today, he’s talking about the impact of Evernote Market [https://www.evernote.com/market]
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The dolorous fate of Demand Media [http://variety.com/2013/biz/news/epic-fail-the-rise-and-fall-of-demand-media-1200914646/] : > Changes in Google’s search algorithms have twice hammered the young company in recent years, leaving its few brands that managed to get significant marketplace traction, including eHow.com and Livestrong, hemorrhaging traffic. Now Demand’s
Andrew Sullivan
Have I written about Andrew Sullivan’s attempt to make his long-running blog The Dish a sustainable media enterprise? Ah, only in passing [http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/2013/01/nostalgia_for_the_pajamas_insult.html] . Time to correct that. The Dish [http://dish.andrewsullivan.com] has been on my
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[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
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[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
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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
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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
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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
