content
Your work is better than "content"
Anything truly creative is more than just content.
censorship
Inside the Facebook censorship machine
Fascinating interview with Monika Bickert [http://recode.net/2014/09/12/how-facebook-decides-between-censorship-and-safety/] , the head of global policy for Facebook: > We use technology to help us triage reports, and we also use Microsoft’s Photo DNA to help us prevent images of child exploitation from being uploaded to the site,
content
"Content" is crap
Greg Satell [http://www.digitaltonto.com/2014/content-is-crap/]: > The reason is that content isn’t really king. Content is crap. Nobody walks out of a great movie and says, “Wow! What great content.” Nobody who produces meaningful artistic expression thinks of themselves as content producers either. So the first
blog platforms
Is Medium just a content farm?
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
business models
Think about reader quality, not content quantity
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
business models
Keep shovelling the content...
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
content
How to close an online service gracefully
[https://i0.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2012/11/4de67896376bbfaa8b3e4adbe6850c31.jpg] The problem with today’s startup-centric web culture is that increasing numbers of services fail or get sold, and they close down, taking their content with them. DailyBooth [http://dailybooth.com/dashboard] was a hot site, particualry
Brighton
Where Content Strategy and Brighton meet...
[https://i1.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2012/09/brighton-beach.jpg] So, content strategy is the new hotness. Lots of people who were once web editors or content managers or even, heavens forbid, journalists, are now describing themselves as “content strategists”. But there’s a world of difference
conferences
A word to the wise content creator...
[https://i1.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2012/09/cccs_header4.jpg] I’ve not got time to blog about this in detail right now, but in a couple of weeks I’ll be moderating a panel at a cool content event called Cool Content Coming Soon… [http:
conferences
5 thoughts about Social Media Week London
This post has lurked in the drafts folder of MarsEdit for the last couple of weeks because, well, my current state of under-employment is making me more nervous than normal of offending people. But if there’s one thing the last six weeks or so has taught me, there’s
content
What happened to web Readability?
This looks interesting [http://www.readability.com/ios], although it’ll take a lot to drag me away from Instapaper [http://www.instapaper.com/u]: It says something about how bad we’ve been in designing websites for long form content that there are so many people working hard to
advertising
Saturday Night's fine for content
So, Saturday night. Like the party animal I am, I’m sat around the house perusing the interwebs. I know how to live. But while I was happily browsing away, I happened across a video on the site of a Like Minds acquaintance [http://www.organic-development.com/blog/what-s-hot-in-the-digital-world-this-week.html]