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Quartz finally burns out Paid Members Public
A moment's silence for one of the great 2010s journalism innovators
The last post for Post News Paid Members Public
Another would-be Twitter replacement is dead in the water. What killed this one?
re/code: the very opposite of a lean startup Paid Members Public
John Gruber commenting on re/Code’s acquisition by Vox Media [http://daringfireball.net/linked/2015/05/28/lefsetz-news]: > My take is that if you’re going to go indie, you need to stay lean and mean. You don’t have to stay as lean and mean as I
It's an "influencer" bubble, not a tech bubble Paid Members Public
Beware the hype of the social media gurus [http://observer.com/2015/04/how-to-survive-the-looming-tech-bubble-ignore-the-gurus/] : > So what we have here are ignorant people (Vaynerchuk, Brogan, Kawasaki, and friends) telling big brands and agencies to dump their money into unproven platforms, or platforms with really shady metrics that they can totally
news:rewired - Startup culture in a big broadcaster Paid Members Public
How do you bring start-up thinking to a traditional broadcaster? That’s what Stijn Lehaen set out to explain in the closing session of news:rewired yesterday [http://www.newsrewired.com/2014/07/23/live-a-start-up-approach-to-news-innovation/] . The Belgian broadcaster [http://www.vrt.be/en] was struggling online, at least in comparison
The dangers and rewards of Data Journalism Paid Members Public
[http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/assets_c/2014/03/photo-3631.html] Allison Schrager has a problem with data journalism [http://qz.com/189703/the-problem-with-data-journalism/]: > But I worry that data give commentary a false sense of authority since data analysis is inherently prone to bias. The author’s priors, what
31-3.8 - Journalism will survive - but you might not recognise it Paid Members Public
The future of journalistic publication might not look very much like its past…
About the new Flickr... Paid Members Public
[https://i1.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2013/05/new-flickr-whatevr.jpg] So, I wrote a long thing about the new Flickr [http://nextberlin.eu/2013/05/revamping-flickr-life-after-startup/] elsewhere. The TL;DR version is: * Evidence suggests that the new Flickr is successful * Many old users aren’t used to
