crowd funding
PressPad's mission to diversify journalism by providing access for young journalists to work opportunities has been knocked back by the pandemic. Here's what they're doing to recover — and how you can help.
crowd funding
It's getting harder to get into journalism. That's not just down to the popularity of the profession, but the decline in routes in for those who aren't wealthy. PressPad is trying to fix that.
solutions journalism
Can upbeat news which delivers solutions to our problem supplant "if it bleeds, it leads"? Maybe - it's certainly proved lucrative for some publishers.
business models
Journalism needs a new business model. Hell, it need many new models. Here's a bunch of them from news:rewired
blog platforms
Realmac software's blogging platform closes today, a couple of years after a successful crowdfunder.
blog platforms
Typed, the crowdfunded blog platform I wrote about [https://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/2015/02/typed-blog-platform-crowdfunding.html] way back when, is dying [https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/typed-com-future/13772/2]: > For the last 8+ months, Typed.com has been running at a loss. I’ve tried hard to make
aral balkan
A little follow-up on the idea that a Brighton-based tech company [http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/2015/05/why-one-tech-company-is-quitting-the-uk-post-election.html] is quitting the UK, because of the current government’s proposals. An unusual number of people got in contact to suggest that calling ind.ie [https://ind.ie] a tech
blog platforms
[https://i0.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2013/05/ghosted.jpg] Just a quick reminder: the Kickstarter to launch Ghost [http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/johnonolan/ghost-just-a-blogging-platform], a new blogging platform (see posts passim [http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/cgi-bin/mt/mt-search.cgi?IncludeBlogs=1&tag=ghost&
business models
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.
crowd funding
Bobbie Johnson – making Matter matter About a year ago – he got pissed off. He came from The Guardian which has a “troubled” relationship with profit. Why does the meaty, good in-depth investigative stuff he likes not really exist online? Why does it need paper subsidy to make it work. And