Publishing
Post about the art and strategies of professional publishing, from business models to platforms, and more.
Social Publishing and Ice Cream Paid Members Public
Explaining the new era of publishing, using ice cream as a metaphor. Cool, creamy and delicious (or should that be del.icio.us?): [Social Media in Plain English](http://www.vimeo.com/1083838?pg=embed&sec=1083838) from [leelefever](http://www.vimeo.com/user230075?pg=embed&sec=1083838)
Carnival of Journalism: The Reporting Instinct Paid Members Public
You are going to deliver news to your readers via the internet. You break it on the web, you break it as soon as you have it, and you develop it online. And then, and only then, do you analyse, contextualise and develop it on paper. And you hope and
Static Stories must give way to Live News Paid Members Public
The next mindshift change journalists need to go through is that they no longer have a finished product. The issue is never complete. The feature is never done. The news is always evolving. And this is hard for us old-school hacks. If you were to ask a group of people
Why I Still Buy Magazines Paid Members Public
3. The Atlantic [https://i1.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2008/04/The-Atlantic.jpg] I picked this excellent magazine [http://www.theatlantic.com/] up randomly when I was on holiday in Florida a few years back – and ended up taking out a subscription. I really wish there was
Your Site Doesn't Have a Homepage. Get Over It. Paid Members Public
Old Media that’s got a little bit of New Media lip gloss on has a somewhat totemic attachment to the idea of “landing pages” – magic pages that will attract search traffic through their SEO gravity. These pages can actually be incredibly useful, as long as they fulfil a genuine
It's Change Or Die Time For Media Companies Paid Members Public
When publishers first went online, and when new online publishers set up, they basically recreated magazines and newspapers online – they didn’t create anything that was fundementally tailored to the new medium. In fact, it’s much like the early days of the printing press, when many of the first
Are Free Tools Better For Web Publishers? Paid Members Public
An e-mail arrives from the inestimable Mr Rodgers [http://engagement101.blogspot.com/], directing me to a post by Howards Owens about using free web tools to improve your website [http://www.howardowens.com/2008/playing-with-free-online-tools-to-enhance-newspaper-sites/] : > The other day, Nick Sergeant was messing around with Yahoo! Pipes. He discovered that
Never work with animals, children or web editors Paid Members Public
Shot for Computer Weekly‘s Hardware Hoarders [http://www.computerweekly.com/hardwarehoarders.htm] competition.
