monetisation
The Dish-y path to reader-supported publishing Paid Members Public
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
Journalism's Groundhog Day - the excuse that won't die Paid Members Public
[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
The Sun's paywall rises Paid Members Public
[https://i0.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2013/07/Screen-Shot-2013-07-31-at-12.38.25.png] (This post will be updated as I find other interesting stuff to add.) Sarah Marshall has made her notes from the Sun+ briefing [https://docs.google.com/document/d/159Gqhwrv0r3vqydPSImZvLf5RDALrlM-xk3AyDDUnBs/mobilebasic?pli=1] public. Of
One of those mornings Paid Members Public
[https://i2.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2013/07/delays-everywhere.jpg] Right about now, I should have been emerging into a rainy London from News UK’s headquarters after a “blogger briefing” on the new Sun paywall. Instead, I’m sat in a lovely cafe in my home
The existential dilemma of paywalls Paid Members Public
Are you familiar with the expression “tl;dr”? Classic “internet speak” for “too long; didn’t read”. It’s often used in a mocking, trolling sense. Well, now there’s a new variation on it: bp;dr [http://bigthink.com/neurobonkers/a-human-right-to-science-bpdr] “behind paywall; didn’t read” In the context
Publishers: getting busy in the (terminal) milking shed Paid Members Public
[https://i0.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2013/05/cows.jpg] Bit of a farmyard metaphor at work in the journalism blogs this morning: Roy Greenslade [http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/greenslade/2013/may/29/newsquest-downturn]: > You have to hand it to Newsquest/Gannett. They certainly
Tumblr as a publishing tool for content creators Paid Members Public
John Allison, who has a long history of excellent web comics [http://www.scarygoround.com] behind him, on the role of Tumblr for content creators [http://sgrblog.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/post-webcomics.html]: > I would never decry any service as worthless. There are people who have caught mass
You don't own your PageRank, so you can't sell it Paid Members Public
My, my. It’s been an interesting few days for web publishers, hasn’t it? Interflora’s Search Death First of all, Google wiped Interflora [http://martinmacdonald.net/interflora-seo-penalty/] from the search rankings: > Searching for the terms [Flowers], [florist], [flower delivery], [flowers online] and hundreds of other related search
