Post about the art and strategies of professional publishing, from business models to platforms, and more.
aggregation
I feel rather bad for my colleagues in the national newspaper business this morning. As they trek into their plush central London office, sipping their lattes1, they find the world predicting their doom and destruction. Frédéric Filloux treads a familiar path, contrasting the transitional newspaper approach to selling their stories
crowd funding
Bobbie Johnson – making Matter matter About a year ago – he got pissed off. He came from The Guardian which has a “troubled” relationship with profit. Why does the meaty, good in-depth investigative stuff he likes not really exist online? Why does it need paper subsidy to make it work. And
iPad
Hey, remember Tactilize [http://tactilize.com/], the iPad publishing tools start-up [http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/2012/06/tactilize_a_quick_web-based_route_to_ipa.html] I wrote about last week? I had one major reservation: the price. Looks like that’s changing: They’re now saying a release date
app stores
[https://i2.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2012/06/Valentin-Squirelo.jpg] While I was at Le Web London last week, I grabbed a few minutes from my frantic liveblogging to chat with [Valentin Squirelo](http://squirelo.com/) of iPad app publishing platform [Tactilize](http://tactilize.com/). The startup
APIs
[](http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/Photo 29 May 2012 09:45.jpg)**Rob Grimshaw, managing director, FT.com**Liveblogged notes – prone to inaccuracies and howling grammatical errors Just had first hack day at the FT. The winning hack
agencies
Ah, I love NEXT. Unlike many tech-based conferences, which are very rooted in the now, they have a remarkable knack of looking about two years into the future, and giving you a sense of what the world might look like then. I’ve been working with them since January, and
digital editions
A message for web fundamentalists and print reactionaries alike: > Single-product thinking is an old habit from the last century that we really need to get over. There is no requirement that publishers choose between Web, e-edition, print-derived tablet versions, and something that looks like it should be hosted by
disposals
I saw some search traffic hitting my blog this morning for “TotalJobs divestment”. Now I know why [http://paidcontent.org/2012/04/04/axel-springer-buying-totaljobs-for-110-million-in-digital-classifieds-offensive/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OmMalik+%28GigaOM%3A+Tech%29] : > Reed Business Information’s sell-offs really aren’t
business
[https://i1.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2012/04/keyboard.jpg] I found an interesting piece on content strategy via Stowe Boyd [http://www.stoweboyd.com/post/20404611102/the-rise-of-the-content-strategist-cheryl-lowry-via] this morning. Cheryl Lowry [http://cheryllowry.com/] goes into some detail about the rise of the content strategist [http:
archives
Don't let a focus on news blind you to value in your archive.
channels
This afternoon, Apple will unveil the latest iteration of the iPad, and quite possibly the new version of the little Apple TV box, too. It’ll be another product announcement that both the specialist tech press and the mainstream newspapers will crawl all over, and with good reason. However you
ebooks
Here’s a stirring defence of the eBook [http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2012/feb/15/ebooks-cant-burn/] against the “paper purity” brigade: > The e-book, by eliminating all variations in the appearance and weight of the material object we hold in our hand and by discouraging anything but our