Post about the art and strategies of professional publishing, from business models to platforms, and more.
advertising
The problem we have to face up to is that just sticking a paywall around what we used to do will not solve our problems on its own (and by decreasing page views, may harm ad revenue and make things worse…. ) We actually have to re-evaluate what we do from
Journalism
[http://twitpic.com/rv2gs]A few interesting follow-ups to my posts about the content Paywall debate: - Eric of Websnark explores the idea that [people adapt to what’s convenient for them](http://www.websnark.com/archives/2009/11/one_of_the_most.html) – and if you make visiting news
Journalism
One of the commenters on the Tim Luckhurst piece I posted about [https://onemanandhisblog.com/archives/2009/11/the_content_paywall_ostriches.html] earlier hits the nail on the head [http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/nov/30/journalism-paywall-johnston-press?showallcomments=true#CommentKey:ecfb61ac-44dd-4e5e-a5b9-7a928e96dc08] : > The model you have of
Journalism
To dismiss the whole of the free-to-air reporting, analysis and news-gathering being done on blogs and the myriad forms of social media that exist in that one paragraph is to duck the crucial question of “what do you offer that’s so much more compelling than the work done on
Blogs
I like Countryfile [http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006t0bv] on TV, and I like Countryfile [http://www.bbccountryfilemagazine.com/] the magazine [http://www.bbccountryfilemagazine.com/](I’m a rural chap at heart). Buy it every issue, in fact, and how many magazines can I say that about any more?
contract journal
People have noted that I tend to be quite upbeat about my work here (bar the odd rant or two) and that’s because, on the whole, we have a lot to be upbeat about. But I ought to acknowledge that the recession is affecting us just like everybody else,
Journalists
Nice summary of the key concept so many people from traditional media are struggling to understand [http://neilperkin.typepad.com/only_dead_fish/2009/10/we-applied-the-lens-of-advertising-interuptive-message-based-to-new-media-instead-we-should-apply-the-lens-of-new-medi.html] from Neil Perkin: > *Jason and Gareth talk about the flow of information over time: “ideas as unfolding stories, a stream of iterations
community management
Great post from Martin Belam about transparency, criticism, publishing and the web [http://www.currybet.net/cbet_blog/2009/10/online_brand_crisis_plan.php]: > *If you are going to make changes to your site in response to criticism, be transparent about it. ‘Stealth edits’ will only lead to
aggregation
I love the internet. Sometimes when you’re too busy to do things, it just goes ahead and sorts it out for you. For example, some colleagues and I were looking at this story [http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5j-QHPkd1wPcAZL8SOqSTACDn33TgD9B7G7TG0] in some disbelief. As one of them remarked,
anti-social media
Social is the new default.
Journalism
Sometimes, a good graphic says all that needs to be said: [https://i1.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2009/09/pcuk-harris-poll-paid-content-reader-intentions-o.png] Loads more data on PaidContent UK [http://paidcontent.co.uk/article/419-pcukharris-poll-only-five-percent-of-readers-would-pay-for-online-news/] , plenty of good analysis on PDA [http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/pda/2009/
bloggers
Here’s a piece of news [http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/21/business/media/21atlantic.html] that’s all over the journalism blogosphere this afternoon, and which surprises me not at all: > Last week, though, the prominent political blogger Andrew Sullivan used his forum on TheAtlantic.com to