
Seeking refuge from the technofeudalist attention economy – in print
Print doesn't have to die for digital to win.
Post about the art and strategies of professional publishing, from business models to platforms, and more.
Print doesn't have to die for digital to win.
Publishing
Tortoise wants The Observer. Unherd has got The Spectator, and installed a new editor. The relationship between tradition print-era brands and digital startups has suddenly reversed.
WordPress
The battle between Automattic and WP Engine has exposed an unexpected vlunerability of the WordPress ecosystem — and it's one publishers should be wary of.
Publishing
The death of Buzzfeed News and the bankrupty of Vice make it clear how the new media ecosystem is developing: it's surprisingly… nautical?
newsletters
Rethinking how we conceptualise newsletters, why you should ignore the podcast doom-mongers and more in today’s updates.
Publishing
Digital publishing moves so fast it can be hard to keep track of what works, and what doesn’t. Here are the things you need to be letting go of right now.
attention
Producing less content can be more profitable than creating more - and the reasons why hark back to the fundamental structure of the internet.
podcasting
While Spotify's acqusition of The Ringer is good news for the journalists involved, it's part of a worrying trend in podcasting
ghost
I've just updated the Ghost CMS I use to run this blog to version 2.0 - and it's a little glimpse of the future.
apple news
Apple has acquired a major US digital magazine subscription service. If you needed evidence it was serious about Apple News, this is it. But does this mean publishers should take Apple News more seriously?
Bobbie Johnson
Talking of Medium, as we were [http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/2017/02/medium-tech-startup-elte.html] , Matt Locke had a great idea on how Medium could bring a new but familiar business model to the journalism web [https://medium.com/storythings-ltd/the-future-of-medium-should-be-episodic-91a29467a14a#.mrzxsuhzj] : > There is another, intriguing possibility – building a
analytics
John Battelle thinks we actually figured out online publishing a decade ago – 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 we’ve invented these past ten years,