Post about the art and strategies of professional publishing, from business models to platforms, and more.
apple
Interesting [http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-09-17/apple-said-to-negotiate-with-publishers-over-digital-newsstand-for-ipad.html] : > Apple Inc. is developing a digital newsstand for publishers that would let them sell magazines and newspapers to consumers for use on Apple devices, said two people familiar with the matter. The newsstand, designed particularly for the iPad, would be
innovation
Interesting Forbes article on the problems Microsoft faces [http://www.forbes.com/2010/09/08/apple-microsoft-innovation-change-leadership-managing-human-capital-10-govindarajan.html] . It is making good money, but is failing to grow. Why? It is failing to execute on innovation. The solution? A better working relationship between the innovators and those running the traditional business:
microsoft
Liveblogging: errors and typos likely Peter Bale of Microsoft UK, whose building weāre sitting in is kicking off the conference, and heās promised us it wonāt just be a product pitch. Why are we doing this? For the audience. Within the UK audience there are many niches,
publishers
[https://i2.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2010/06/3C887068-5E6A-4FE0-BF35-774CBAB570ABiphone_photo.jpg] If thereās one thing Iām surprised thatās gone unnoticed in all the kerfuffle following Appleās keynote on Monday, itās the launch of Safari 5 and, more specifically, the addition of its
news
Farmers Weekly colleague Caroline on the sheer rudeness of theĀ coalitionĀ government [http://www.nufsaid.net/2010/05/13/take-your-time-its-only-a-deadline/]: > Itās taken long enough, but weāve finally got ourselves a new DEFRA secretary. Caroline Spelman was announced as the departmentās head honcho at about 7pm last
BBC
So, how has the online media done on this election? The BBC has reported unprecedented levels of traffic to its site this morning, but Paul Bradshaw has a good post up, suggesting that thereās a degree ofhomogenisationĀ amongst the online news outlets [http://onlinejournalismblog.com/2010/05/07/uk-general-election-2010-online-journalism-is-ordinary/
community
Mainly to save me from losing them when my old PC is taken away and humanely destroyed, to be replaced by a brand new PC to drive my madā¦ - [Social software doesnāt really matter](http://www.headshift.com/blog/2010/02/social-software-doesnt-really.php) ā As social technology goes more
business models
OK, folks, Iāve held out long enough. Here it is: the obligatory iPad post. Enjoy it while you can, because Iām going to shut up about the damn things from now until I have one in my hands. [https://i1.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2010/
hyper-local
SoGlos.com [http://www.soglos.com] ā James Fryer Launched the week of the floods in 2007. Founded by two journalists from the county.**Do:**1. **Be great!** ā Niche websites work, they can capture audiences. All of our content is exclusively written by professional journalists ā itās about high-quality content. 2.
apps
[](http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/assets_c/2010/01/4265878930_a465e45807_b-1557.html) Laura has a thoughtful post up on her blog on the sort of[ app sheād
open standards
A video attempting to explain PubSubHubbub [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PubSubHubbub], a protocol that takes RSS and Atom feeds and makes them real time: Itās an important technology for the tech guys in publishers to get their heads around.
Journalists
At a meeting this morning, I told a prospective newbie blogger that intentional controversy was often a massively over-rated virtue. In the light of this, I couldnāt help but find myself nodding vigorously in agreement with this piece by Umair Haque [http://blogs.harvardbusiness.org/haque/2009/12/why_