quartz
Quartz finally burns out
A moment's silence for one of the great 2010s journalism innovators
microblogging
The last post for Post News
Another would-be Twitter replacement is dead in the water. What killed this one?
publishing strategy
re/code: the very opposite of a lean startup
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
hype
It's an "influencer" bubble, not a tech bubble
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
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
data journalism
The dangers and rewards of Data Journalism
[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
business models
31-3.8 - Journalism will survive - but you might not recognise it
The future of journalistic publication might not look very much like its past…
flickr
About the new Flickr...
[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
futurology
Bruce Sterling: the joy and danger of the future
It’s a beautiful sunny day, I’m full of cold and I’m distracting myself by reading commentary on NEXT 13 for my work on the conference blog [http://nextberlin.eu/]. The talk that seems to have had the most impact – despite being the shortest – was Bruce Sterling’s.
Neelie Kroes: can the European Commission make Europe better for startups?
[https://i2.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2012/12/Neelie-Kroes.jpg] Neelie Kroes, Vice President of the European Commission Interviewed by Loic Le Meur Neelie Kroes has begun an exciting experience – the inventors of Angry Birds came over to tell them what was needed. She cancelled her next
content
How to close an online service gracefully
[https://i0.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2012/11/4de67896376bbfaa8b3e4adbe6850c31.jpg] The problem with today’s startup-centric web culture is that increasing numbers of services fail or get sold, and they close down, taking their content with them. DailyBooth [http://dailybooth.com/dashboard] was a hot site, particualry
london
Tech City's new Shields
Interesting interview with Joanna Shields [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/mediatechnologyandtelecoms/digital-media/9622748/Joanna-Shields-The-first-lady-of-Londons-Tech-City.html#] , ex-Facebook and now chief executive of the Tech City Investment Organisation: > “London has access to government through Westminster, you have the creative industries [and] you have the financial sector. You almost have