Publishing
Post about the art and strategies of professional publishing, from business models to platforms, and more.
Addendum To Last Post Paid Members Public
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? Discuss…
Free = More Pageviews = Money? Paid Members Public
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 somehow…
The BBC's Social Media Countryfile Paid Members Public
[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. It’s a form of masochism, I think, watching a show about the beautiful countryside while sat
Free Medical Journals From Reed Paid Members Public
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.
Reporting An Earth Without Humans Paid Members Public
Here’s 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/]): It’s the sort of thing that just wouldn’t work well in print, but which makes a great short
Lies, Damn Lies and Web 2.0 Paid Members Public
But the internet’s barely a couple of decades old and the most venerable of the technologies we’re 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, “authoritative”
Exciting Accounts From JournoBlogging Paid Members Public
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 won’t be holding aloft my magic sword later, unless I get really, really lucky. No, I’m talking about learning that trying to
Blogging is IT, not Journalism? Paid Members Public
If you were to say to me “Adam, old chap, what’s the toughest challenge you face in getting journalists to blog?”, 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
