books
[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
business models
[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
business
[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
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Felix Salmon [http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2012/11/06/the-ft-in-play/]: > And there’s another inconvenient fact for would-be acquirers of the FT: journalism doesn’t have economies of scale. The bigger that journalistic organizations become, the less efficient they get: salaries rise, new layers of editors and managers
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Robert Andrews highlights the political dangers to the traditional Reed Elsevier [http://www.reedelsevier.com/] business model, by quoting a research note from Berstein Research’s Claudio Aspesi [http://paidcontent.org/2012/09/10/open-access-research-catastrophic-for-reed-elsevier/] : > We think the risk posed to the Elsevier business model is substantial. We believe
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I’m a big fan of the new emerging funding models that the web is bringing. Yeah, there’s Kickstarter, obviously, but I also like the “bundle” promotions that are appearing for software – and now music. I’ve just bagged my third bunch of albums from SoundSupply [http://www.soundsupp.
BBC
Live-blogged notes of a panel discussion about making news work on smartphones
analytics
Panel discussion on sustainable business models, chaired byKathryn Corrick, digital media consultant. Lucia Adams, The Times – When they launched a paywall, people predicted a disaster. But it hasn’t turned out that way, and now all the newspapers are trying to solve the same problem. The big change is the
aggregation
I feel rather bad for my colleagues in the national newspaper business this morning. As they trek into their plush central London office, sipping their lattes1, they find the world predicting their doom and destruction. Frédéric Filloux treads a familiar path, contrasting the transitional newspaper approach to selling their stories
David Green, Founder Eco-Island Partnership [http://www.eco-island.org/hub] [https://i2.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2012/06/david-green.jpg] David was late – but made up for it with a torrent of information about the Eco Island project on the Isle of Wight, which with couple a
So, carpet tiles. Probably not the most exciting thing in the world, but a major component of most office environments. Like all physical building components, they have the potential to be a huge consumer of resources, and therefore somewhere where you can make a difference to sustainability. [https://i1.wp.
APIs
Key Points 1. Mobile is central to FT.com’s business 2. Online revenue and activity is shifting to mobile devices rapidly 3. FT.com is focusing on HTML5 for both web and native apps 4. Its apps are built on APIs [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application_programming_interface]