digital journalism
Going Online: Be Brave (from 2008)
10 years I wrote something about restructuring editorial teams for digital, but lacked the courage to publish it. I should have found the courage.
business models
If Medium is exploiting you - that's your problem
Matthew Butterick [http://practicaltypography.com/billionaires-typewriter.html]: > Among web-publishing tools, I see Medium as the equivalent of a frozen pizza: not as wholesome as a meal you could make yourself, but for those with out the time or motivation to cook, a potentially better option than just eating peanut
business
Meaning - Bob Doak: the Gore cult of making money - and having fun
Warning: Liveblogging. Prone to error, inaccuracy and terrible, terrible crimes against grammar. This post will be improved over the next 24 hours [https://i1.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2014/11/bob-doak.jpg] Bob Doak [http://2014.meaningconference.co.uk/#speakers/bob-doak] works for WL Gore & Associates
business
#leweb - Go wide, not deep says Gary Vaynerchuk
Allegedly Gary Vaynerchuk [http://www.garyvaynerchuk.com] hadn’t slept for two days before his talk at LeWeb. I well believe it given how rambling it was. This isn’t a conventional chronological liveblog, as I’ve tried to gather together his thoughts into subject groups… Go deep not wide
engagement
Quick wins vrs long-term victories
An interesting quote from David Armano [http://darmano.typepad.com/logic_emotion/2012/08/mobility.html], that reinforces the discussion on cycles [http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/2012/08/social_media_isnt_failing_-_the_mainstre.html] last week: > We’ve seen this movie before. In the early days
amazon
The UK eBook tipping point
paidContent UK [http://paidcontent.org/2012/08/06/ebooks-now-outselling-print-on-amazon-uk/]: > About two years after Kindle launched in the United Kingdom, Amazon UK says it is now selling 114 ebooks for every print book. You’ve got an eBook strategy in place already, right? No? Oh, dear.
channels
Is product lust killing strategic thinking?
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
community
The Social Publishing Tipping Point
Idle thought, born of a conversation with a colleague [http://twitter.com/#!/KatieICISHeren]: Have we reached the point where having a social publishing strategy is no longer an advantage, but not having one is a massive competitive disadvantage?If we haven’t, it must be imminent.
metrics
Metrics begin where journalistic instinct ends
[https://i1.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2011/10/rethinking.jpg] I have a theory that we place too much importance on instinct in journalism. There’s a good reason for that – back in the print days, we didn’t have much else to go on. Defining what
carnival of journalism
The path to more news you can use
It’s carnival of journalism time again [http://carnivalofjournalism.com/2011/02/08/were-back-at-it-carnival-of-journalism-jcarn/] , and boy have I struggled with this one. You see, the subject matter is increasing the sources of news. And, my first, second and third reactions were all the same: *Do we need more sources of