engaged reading digest
Engaged Reading Digest: newsroom culture, Twitter reality and better newsletters
If you read the first couple of links, you'll understand why I call this series of posts what I do.
digital journalism
Going Online: Be Brave (from 2008)
10 years I wrote something about restructuring editorial teams for digital, but lacked the courage to publish it. I should have found the courage.
culture change
Is Twitter conversation or publication?
How Twitter went bad [http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/11/conversation-smoosh-twitter-decay/412867/] : > In other words, on Twitter, people say things that they think of as ephemeral and chatty. Their utterances are then treated as unequivocal political statements by people outside the conversation. Because there’s a kind
culture change
Twitter: change the culture, change the platform
Emily Bell on the consequences of replacing Twitter’s stars [http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/nov/08/twitter-heart-wrong-beat] – “favourites” – with hearts – “likes”: > I found myself not bookmarking, as I would have done a day earlier, a horrifying image retweeted by journalists depicting men using phones to film a
business
Meaning - Bob Doak: the Gore cult of making money - and having fun
Warning: Liveblogging. Prone to error, inaccuracy and terrible, terrible crimes against grammar. This post will be improved over the next 24 hours [https://i1.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2014/11/bob-doak.jpg] Bob Doak [http://2014.meaningconference.co.uk/#speakers/bob-doak] works for WL Gore & Associates
change
Meaning - Stefania Druga: Saving the world, one play session at a time
Warning: Liveblogging. Prone to error, inaccuracy and terrible, terrible crimes against grammar. This post will be improved over the next 24 hours [https://i0.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2014/11/stefania-druga.jpg] Stefania Druga [https://twitter.com/stefania_druga] equips people to solve their own problems through
culture
Meaning - Mark Stevenson: the future and how to survive it
Warning: Liveblogging. Prone to error, inaccuracy and terrible, terrible crimes against grammar. This post will be improved over the next 24 hours [https://i1.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2014/11/mark-stevenson.jpg] Mark Stevenson [http://www.twitter.com/optimistontour] is a cultural change consultant. Douglas Adams said
culture
Obligatory #gamergate post
Seriously abbreviated version of the #gamergate mess: A bunch of predominantly male gamers are using “concerns about the ethics of games journalism” as a shield for a series of deeply misogynistic attacks [http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/ampp3d/so-gamergate-just-women-seem-4508850] on prominent women developers [http://www.xojane.com/it-happened-to-me/brianna-wu-gamergate]
comics
The Marvel comic that sells more digitally than in print
Here’s something else from outside the mainstream of publishing you might find interesting: > Ms Marvel recently went to its sixth printing, a rare accomplishment in comics today. But chatting with Marvel executives at San Diego Comic Con I discovered more. That it sells more in digital than print,
culture
Taylor Swift, and the value of your Twitter followers
Big surprise of last week: Taylor Swift had some really interesting thoughts about the intersection of tech and commercial art [http://online.wsj.com/articles/for-taylor-swift-the-future-of-music-is-a-love-story-1404763219] in a piece for the WSJ: > There are a few things I have witnessed becoming obsolete in the past few years, the first
culture change
A tipping point in mobile phone etiquette?
Interesting idea in a New York Times Bits blog interview with the woman behind the I Forgot My Phone video [http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/09/01/disruptions-more-connected-yet-more-alone/?_r=1&] : > Ms. deGuzman’s video may have landed at one of those cultural moments when people start questioning
BBC
The BBC, Savile and editors under pressure
Charlie Beckett makes an insightful point about last night’s Panorama covering the BBC’s multiple failures to expose Jimmy Savile [http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/polis/2012/10/22/the-bbc-savile-panorama-and-newsnight-closed-eyes-closed-minds/] as a paedophile and sexual predator: > Likewise, let’s put the Newsnight controversy in perspective. The Newsnight debacle