Post about the art and strategies of professional publishing, from business models to platforms, and more.
news
OK. Saturday morning task for those of you really interested in the future of online journalism. Grab a nice, strong mug of coffee (or other suitable beverage) and sit down to read this [http://strange.corante.com/2009/09/09/visualisation-for-news-and-community-discovery] : > By and large, news websites still reflect their
closures
And so the paper that started the London evening freesheet war is gone: [](http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/assets_c/2009/09/IMG_1275-1442.html) I doubt this will
advertising
I’m such a sucker for these things: They tell a pretty compelling story, though, don’t they?
[http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/assets_c/2009/09/New%20Picture%20%2834%29-1414.html] That’s the thumbnail view you get in Safari, Apple’s web browser, when you open a new tab. The confluence of these two ideas suggest that, as the processing power and bandwidth develops to do
infrastructure
Social media: you’re doing it wrong [http://www.brandrepublic.com/News/938043/BusinessWeek-sinks-16m-social-media-project/] : > NEW YORK – As the bid deadline for ailing BusinessWeek magazine approaches the McGraw-Hill title is revealed to have spent $16m on creating its social networking site, which is generating little cash. BusinessWeek launched its social
freesheets
I’ve mentioned before [http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/2009/04/why_free_devalues_print.html] that I think the urban freesheets like Metro and the London Paper have been pretty effectively devaluing news for a while. I’m sat drinking a coffee in Farringdon, as I arrived rather early
douglas adams
Some really excellent advice here for publishers trying to get to grips with the structural change in the industry: > …let’s 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
dconstruct
My bosses’ boss went to dConstruct last week, and all I got was this list of links and thoughts [http://bloggingrbi.blogspot.com/2009/09/dconstruct09-deconstructed.html].
geotagging
A good idea in publishing: Geolocation information in Twitter [http://blog.twitter.com/2009/08/location-location-location.html], and here’s why it’s a good idea [http://www.buzzmachine.com/2009/08/20/geotwitter-and-news-and-more/]. A bad idea in publishing: Tracking scripts in content [http://www.niemanlab.org/2009/08/what-the-associated-press-tracking-beacon-is-and-what-it-isnt/
events
The Guardian’s published a superbly-written piece by Simon Jenkins [http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/aug/10/newpaper-internet-paywall-murdoch-live] today, that catches exactly what I think about paywalls, the state of the publishing business and our route out of this quagmire: > At present the newspaper industry is like
monetisation
So, it’s happened, as we all knew it would. Rupert Murdoch is taking his online sites paid-for. From the BBC story on the announcement [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8186701.stm]: > In order to stop readers from moving to the huge number of free news
books
I’ve been doing something for the last few weeks that I don’t normally do: I’ve been buying a daily newspaper. And here’s why: [](https:
