publishing technology
Publishing in the spirit of (technological) freedom Paid Members Public
Lovely close to the New Yorker piece announcing the new website [http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/07/28/note-readers]: > Publishing the best work possible remains our aim. Advances in design and technology are tools in that effort. In all forms—digital and paper—we intend to publish in
The New Yorker's WordPress regeneration Paid Members Public
The New Yorker website was not looking healthy this morning: [https://i1.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2014/07/new-yorker.jpg] However, it wasn’t that bad for everyone: > @adders [https://twitter.com/adders] @NewYorker [https://twitter.com/NewYorker] mine looks like this pic.twitter.com/t8YFgsRmJX
Tech is on the wrong side of the paper wall Paid Members Public
Really excellent read on disruption, journalism and company structure [http://www.vox.com/2014/6/17/5817824/disruption-is-a-dumb-buzzword-its-also-an-important-concept] from Timothy Lee at Vox: > The problem with the New York Times isn’t with the existence of the “wall,” it’s that the paper erected the wall in the wrong
Rethinking writing for the phone age Paid Members Public
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 “how do we treat this, and what part of writing feels indigenous to
Why is ebook publishing so badly supported? Paid Members Public
[http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/assets_c/2014/04/the-magazine-book-volume-I-1-3693.html] One of the few Kickstarters I’ve backed was the one for a hardback book of the best of The Magazine‘s first year [http://the-magazine.org/book]. Something about a digital-only magazine spawning a hardback just appealed to
iPad Magazines: a whole new generation of shovelware Paid Members Public
[http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/assets_c/2014/04/the-loop-ipad-3685.html] While we’re on the topic of iPad magazine apps [http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/2014/04/ipad-magazines-a-predictable-publisher-r.html] : > We in the publishing game have a name for this phenomenon – we call it “shovelware”. We used to use
PubSubHubub: fat pings for publishers Paid Members Public
Here’s an issue many people aren’t aware of: > Does Google Reader really only poll feeds once an hour? bit.ly/RSU9Ia [http://t.co/5btxsxxv] Bit of a fail for use on a news desk if so #journalism [https://twitter.com/search/%23journalism] — John Thompson (@johncthompson) November
