Seeking refuge from the technofeudalist attention economy – in print
Print doesn't have to die for digital to win.
Publishing
Post about the art and strategies of professional publishing, from business models to platforms, and more.
Publishing
When digital goes shopping for print
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
WordPress just lost its default status for publishers
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
This is how the future media ecosystem will look
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
What is a newsletter?
Rethinking how we conceptualise newsletters, why you should ignore the podcast doom-mongers and more in today’s updates.
Publishing
Four things publishers should give up in 2023
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
If you don’t understand attention, you don’t understand digital publishing
Producing less content can be more profitable than creating more - and the reasons why hark back to the fundamental structure of the internet.
podcasting
Spotify is trying to become podcasting's gatekeeper. We musn't let them.
While Spotify's acqusition of The Ringer is good news for the journalists involved, it's part of a worrying trend in podcasting
ghost
One Man & His Blog is now running on Ghost 2.0
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's acquisition of Texture, and what it might mean for the iOS news ecosystem
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
Medium, serialization and the death of Matter
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
The new original sin of online publishing
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,