computer weekly
Never work with animals, children or web editors
Shot for Computer Weeklyâs Hardware Hoarders [http://www.computerweekly.com/hardwarehoarders.htm] competition.
Publishing
Post about the art and strategies of professional publishing, from business models to platforms, and more.
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One Way To Sell Magazines
[via [Styledash](http://www.styledash.com/2008/03/04/gqs-ideal-man-video/)]
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RBI for Sale: Coverage Continues
PSFK suggest that this marks a big retreat from advertising and a failure to get magazines online [http://www.psfk.com/2008/02/reed-to-leave-publishing-because-of-ad-market-risk.html] : > The story could suggest two things: an Adsense-fueled digital era has made old fashioned print ads irrelevant and therefore broken the business model for
Publishing
RBI to be divested by Reed Elsevier
[https://i1.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2008/02/RBI_WEB_2L.jpg] Well, a rather interesting mood in the office this morning. As Press Gazette is reporting, Reed Business Information is officially for sale [http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=1&storycode=40353&
cms
New Irish Medical Times website is a blog
One of the biggest projects Iâve been involved with here has gone live today. We relaunched the website for the Irish Medical Times [http://www.imt.ie/], a business paper for Irelandâs doctors, this morning â and itâs all built around blog software. The whole of the content
dreamhost
Goodbye, Dreamhost
I shifted this blog off Dreamhost a while ago, and the rest of my web publishing activities are about to follow. Hereâs a hint as to why: [![Dreamhost's Nightmare](https://i0.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2008/01/081508_dreamhost_diebold2.gif?w=447 "
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Le Web 3 Missing Posts 1: 11 Thoughts from Doc Searls
Doc Searls [http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/docsearls/] gave what turned into a rapid fire presentation about 11 ideas he had about the future of the web. Here they are, in their abbreviated glory: 1. Bullshit will lose leveredge â advertising does not scale to the sky 2. Advertising as we
jonathan medved
Le Web 3 '07: Social Media versus Anti-social Media
There were a couple of interesting, but ill-attended talks yesterday before lunch, which I wanted to draw together. June Cohen [http://www.ted.com/index.php/profiles/view/id/13] of the TED Conference [http://www.ted.com/talks?gclid=CKeB5LjIopACFRRSZwodakfhqw] made some interesting points about media, and in particular,
Blogging
NUJ: Forget The Customers, and They'll Forget You
Well, Iâd like to suggest that, if a union is meant to represent its members, than the NUJ got it exactly right. Itâs showing exactly the same form of fear, uncertainty and doubt that many journalists are expressing right now. Truth be told, in my experience, most journalists
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Addendum To Last Post
Has the journalism industry been the architect of its own problems by persistently concealing the true cost of its products from consumers by deriving most of its revenue from advertising? DiscussâŚ
new york times
Free = More Pageviews = Money?
The New York Times has seen traffic go up on certain sections of its site since it dropped the paywall [http://www.jackiedanicki.com/index.php/2007/10/16/listen-up-fact-fans/]. Which is good. However, this only matters if those pageviews are translating into revenue somehowâŚ
BBC
The BBC's Social Media Countryfile
[https://i0.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2007/10/bbccountryfile.jpg] One of my Sunday morning pleasures is watching [*Countryfile*](http://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/tvradio/programmes/countryfile/) on BBC1. Itâs a form of masochism, I think, watching a show about the beautiful countryside while sat