Publishing
Post about the art and strategies of professional publishing, from business models to platforms, and more.
More Paywall Discussion Paid Members Public
[http://twitpic.com/rv2gs]A few interesting follow-ups to my posts about the content Paywall debate: - Eric of Websnark explores the idea that [people adapt to what’s convenient for them](http://www.websnark.com/archives/2009/11/one_of_the_most.html) – and if you make visiting news
What Publishers Need To Understand Paid Members Public
One of the commenters on the Tim Luckhurst piece I posted about [https://onemanandhisblog.com/archives/2009/11/the_content_paywall_ostriches.html] earlier hits the nail on the head [http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/nov/30/journalism-paywall-johnston-press?showallcomments=true#CommentKey:ecfb61ac-44dd-4e5e-a5b9-7a928e96dc08] : > The model you have of
The Content Paywall Ostriches Paid Members Public
To dismiss the whole of the free-to-air reporting, analysis and news-gathering being done on blogs and the myriad forms of social media that exist in that one paragraph is to duck the crucial question of “what do you offer that’s so much more compelling than the work done on
Cargo Cult Blogging: Still Going Strong Paid Members Public
I like Countryfile [http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006t0bv] on TV, and I like Countryfile [http://www.bbccountryfilemagazine.com/] the magazine [http://www.bbccountryfilemagazine.com/](I’m a rural chap at heart). Buy it every issue, in fact, and how many magazines can I say that about any more?
Contract Journal to close Paid Members Public
People have noted that I tend to be quite upbeat about my work here (bar the odd rant or two) and that’s because, on the whole, we have a lot to be upbeat about. But I ought to acknowledge that the recession is affecting us just like everybody else,
Publishing in the Flow Paid Members Public
Nice summary of the key concept so many people from traditional media are struggling to understand [http://neilperkin.typepad.com/only_dead_fish/2009/10/we-applied-the-lens-of-advertising-interuptive-message-based-to-new-media-instead-we-should-apply-the-lens-of-new-medi.html] from Neil Perkin: > *Jason and Gareth talk about the flow of information over time: “ideas as unfolding stories, a stream of iterations
Delete in Haste, Repent at Leisure Paid Members Public
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. ‘Stealth edits’ will only lead to
Correcting the Associated Press via Time Travel Paid Members Public
I love the internet. Sometimes when you’re too busy to do things, it just goes ahead and sorts it out for you. For example, some colleagues and I were looking at this story [http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5j-QHPkd1wPcAZL8SOqSTACDn33TgD9B7G7TG0] in some disbelief. As one of them remarked,
