Post about the art and strategies of professional publishing, from business models to platforms, and more.
Publishing
Good news from other parts of the vast Reed Empire [http://jwikert.typepad.com/the_average_joe/2007/09/reeds-rx-conver.html]. Reed Elsevier, which does all that pricey scientific publishing, is starting to make some of its titles free on the web. Good stuff.
Journalism
Hereâs a nice example of video from a print title (in this case, Scientific American [http://www.sciam.com/], a competitor to our New Scientist [http://www.newscientist.com/]): Itâs the sort of thing that just wouldnât work well in print, but which makes a great short
bloggers
But the internetâs barely a couple of decades old and the most venerable of the technologies weâre talking about here, blogging, has only a decade of publishing history behind it. People are still finding new ways of creating compelling sites with this stuff. A few years back, âauthoritativeâ
Blogging
Like the hero in a 1980s cartoon series, I have learned an important lesson today. A lesson about friendship and trust⌠Well, no. But then, I wonât be holding aloft my magic sword later, unless I get really, really lucky. No, Iâm talking about learning that trying to
Blogging
If you were to say to me âAdam, old chap, whatâs the toughest challenge you face in getting journalists to blog?â, two things would cross my mind. The first is that you have an incredibly mannered way of speaking, and good on you in this age of enforced casualness
Journalism
Ooops [http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=1&storycode=38424&c=1]. Mind you, no-one said that the transition to the online world would be easyâŚ
Journalism
Mark Payton [http://markpayton.wordpress.com/about/], digital editorial director of Haymarket [http://www.haymarket.com] is blogging at the aptly-named blog The Content Factory [http://markpayton.wordpress.com/]. Nice to see another guy charged with getting traditional magazines online dipping his toes into the blogging waterâŚ
alexa
Iâm never slow to criticise Alexa [http://www.alexa.com/], a site which provides web site ranking based on a toolbar that is only available to Internet Explorer users on a PC. Why, thatâs not going to distort the results at all, is it? Fundamentally, I find the
books
Interesting. One of our bloggers, Tim Relf [http://www.fwi.co.uk/blogs/rural-life/] is a published author [http://www.timrelf.com/] and even has a Facebook group dedicated to his book [http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2360956892&ref=mf] s. Cool.
1980s cartoons
Winning at New Media with 1980s cartoon heroes. [http://danblank.com/blog/2007/06/28/1980s-cartoons-and-online-success/] Brilliant. (But Iâm a little concerned at how much Dan knows about My Little Pony.)
futurology
Thanks to Kevin from Travolution [http://travolution.blogspot.com/2007/06/we-are-all-prosumers-now.html] for posting that.
advertising
This caught me by surprise at the end of a video I was watching: [https://i0.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2007/06/Picture-7.png] Of course: they wouldnât want their video on show somewhere they canât serve ads around it, would they?
