Publishing
Post about the art and strategies of professional publishing, from business models to platforms, and more.
Local Newspapers are Doomed Paid Members Public
Or so said professor of journalism and Guardian blogger, Roy Greenslade [http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/greenslade/] on Today this morning. You can catch him predicting the death of local newspapers [http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/listen_again/newsid_7591000/7591404.stm] online still.
What the Garner Hype Cycle Means For Journalists Paid Members Public
- Location-aware apps are rising up the slope of enlightenment. You have 18 months, tops, to start geo-coding your content. Devices like the iPhone and the competitors starting to come from the existing incumbents will rapidly change how people interact with content. We need to be putting the infrastructure in
Journalists Versus Sub-Editors: It's War Paid Members Public
First of all, Giles Coren unleashed the rage [http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/jul/23/mediamonkey] so many journalists have felt when subs thoughtlessly butcher their copy. The subs then struck back with a slightly whiny complaint about his rude language [http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/
B2B Blog Traffic versus Nationals Blog Traffic Paid Members Public
I’ve always assumed that, by nature of being from niche B2B titles, our blogs were significantly less popular than those from national newspapers. And then I saw a story on journalism.co.uk reporting on The Times’ blogs and their traffic figures [http://blogs.journalism.co.uk/editors/2008/
Why Media Gets Community Wrong Paid Members Public
Now the big upgrade to Movable Type 4 is done, I’m pulling together a strategy to develop our blogs. At the heart of that is slowing down the expansion of them, and upping the quality (or humanely putting down) those we have. And for those of you who are
Is Murdoch Right to Keep Investing in Newspapers? Paid Members Public
Golly and, indeed, gosh. An e-mail arrives from one Kyle at The Atlantic, pointing me to the video they’ve produced following up an article about Rupert Murdoch and the future of newspapers – and providing a handy-dandy embed code for me. Now, given that I’m a subscriber to The
Measuring Engagement, Measuring Conversation Paid Members Public
File this under “how did I miss this?”:Alec Cochrane, one of our web analytics gurus at RBI has been blogging for a little while now. [When Can I Stop](http://www.whencanistop.com/) is of the “occasional post, but in great depth” school of blogging, but gives a real
The Death of the Home Page Paid Members Public
A few weeks back, the BBC published a report about Jakob Nielsen [http://www.useit.com/]‘s latest findings about how web users operate [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7417496.stm]. As Kristine pointed out, it had a dumb, dumb headline [http://kristinelowe.blogs.com/kristine_lowe/