news
Why is online news still such a miserable experience?
Dave Winer asks a good question about the state of online news
news
Dave Winer asks a good question about the state of online news
analytics
John Battelle thinks we actually figured out online publishing a decade ago ā and then we screwed it up. How? We handed power to the social networks [https://shift.newco.co/we-can-fix-this-f-cking-mess-bf6595ac6ccd#.f5u7l6i6x]: > Again, for emphasis: despite all the whizzy bang-y social media weāve invented these past ten years,
magazines
[https://i1.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2014/06/medium-logo-jun-2014.png] An e-mail arrives from Medium, outlining the changes to their Collections [https://medium.com/the-story/the-future-of-collections-79e6ea385113] (collections of articles posted on Medium): > Collections will have now have three types of participants: Owner, editor, and writer. * The
online publishing
Craig Mod, interviewed at Nieman Journalism Lab [http://www.niemanlab.org/2014/04/qa-craig-mod-on-making-writing-more-mobile-friendly-and-where-digital-publishing-is-headed/] : > But the iterative component of the writing process, and also the flow of using the smartphone, that was really just coming from āhow do we treat this, and what part of writing feels indigenous to
Andrew Sullivan
Andrew Sullivan nails why traditional publishing brands struggle [http://andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com/2012/10/why-not-do-away-with-print.html] to bring their readers with them online, in a piece about personal migration on reading from print to digital forms: > But it takes guts to actually make the change. An individual can, overnight.
business models
Matthew Ingram has written a typically thoughtful and insightful piece about the bind newspaper publishers find themselves in [http://gigaom.com/2012/04/03/why-digital-native-media-will-almost-always-win/], all inspired by this graph from LinkedIn [http://blog.linkedin.com/2012/03/08/economic-report/]: [https://i1.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2012/
Blogging
Judith Townend [http://posterous.com/people/4wjLiFjs3sWt], she who has given up life at journalism.co.uk for PhDing, is running a survey around media law and online publishers/bloggers [http://fromtheonline.com/2010/08/20/whats-a-journalist-and-do-they-understand-law/] . Help academia flourish by filling it out [https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?hl=
echo chambers
[![Reading the newspaper: Brookgreen Gardens in P...]()](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Brookgreen_reading_9739.JPG)Image via [Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Brookgreen_reading_9739.JPG) The āParliament can go hang itselfā editionā¦- [Where next for the Telegraphās digital strategy?](http://paidcontent.co.uk/
design
I donāt write much about print on here, but long-time readers will know Iām not a āprint is deadā type. I do believe that print will have to change and evolve to deal with the changing environment ā much as theatre had to after the coming of cinema and
community management
Great post from Martin Belam about transparency, criticism, publishing and the web [http://www.currybet.net/cbet_blog/2009/10/online_brand_crisis_plan.php]: > *If you are going to make changes to your site in response to criticism, be transparent about it. āStealth editsā will only lead to
douglas adams
Some really excellent advice here for publishers trying to get to grips with the structural change in the industry: > ā¦letās think about what might happen when magazine publishing is no longer a river in its own right, but is just a current in the digital ocean. Magazines are
information architecture
*Hi! Iām Rebecca Froley [http://www.computerweekly.com/authors/ArticleAuthor.aspx?AuthorID=165], deputy web editor of ComputerWeekly.com, and the first of Adamās guest posters this week⦠Finally⦠Sorry for posting so late in the day! * How do you learn? Itās a question Iāve been