open web
The link controllers arenāt dead ā yet
In the year of our Lord 2024, some websites are still trying to control who links to them.
Andrew Sullivan
The Post-Blogging age
Chris Cillizza, commenting on the reaction to Andrew Sullivanās departure from blogging [http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/2015/01/andrew-sullivan-quits-blogging.html] : > But, again, a blog isnāt any one thing. For me, the idea of a blog ā or blogging ā that works is reported analysis told through a variety
digital tools
Markdown versus CommonMark: the ambiguity and clarity dilemma
[https://i0.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2014/09/crossroads.jpg] The āstandard Markdownā controversy seems to be over and done. I was essentially offline for the weekend, and I came back to find that what was āStandard Markdownā has now become āCommonMark [http://commonmark.org]ā, respecting Markdown
digital editions
An all-digital emphasis
Ah, things are getting interesting [http://www.foliomag.com/2011/ziff-davis-enterprise-go-all-digital-2012]: > Ziff Davis Enterprise has launched a new strategy called OmniDigital that will take the company all-digital with emphasis in four keys areasātraditional websites, mobile websites, tablets and digital editions. Revealing, and I think wise, choice of areas.
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. Thereās a good reason for that ā back in the print days, we didnāt have much else to go on. Defining what
Journalism
What Publishers Need To Understand
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
Local News
What Will Media Look Like in Digital Britain?
Ah, the fuss around Digital Britain is growing, isnāt it? And I donāt just mean the report ā I mean how Britain looks in a digital future. Events like a judge giving The Times approval to reveal the identity of an anonymous police blogger [http://www.guardian.co.uk/
content atomisation
Entitlement, Page Views and Content Atomisation
I think, perhaps, that much of this sense of entitlement is rooted in the fact that magazine or newspaper packages conceal the popularity of each item within ā people have to buy the whole package, and itās hard to determine what they read and what they donāt. (Market research
Blogging
Death of News Media Announced (Please Send Flowers)
To add to the gathering clouds, Brian [http://www.brianmicklethwait.com/index.php/weblog/comments/clay_shirky_on_newspaper_doom/] linked to this neatly-argued augury of DOOM [http://www.shirky.com/weblog/2009/03/newspapers-and-thinking-the-unthinkable/] (as did everybody else, as half an hour in my feed reader proved): > The
design
Mobile FT.com is a River of News
I have a pet theory, one that is not widely shared amongst my colleagues. I think that what we now know as news sites will come to resemble what we now know as blogs. I donāt mean this in the broader sense of the conversational use of blogs so
Journalism
Morning Coffee Reading - Speed Version
[https://i2.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2009/01/IMG_0186.jpg] Hereās some quick links for today, with minimal commentary ā because Iām meant to be on holiday. š- Itās more than just the internet thatās changing journalism, itās [a perfect storm of
digital journalism
Digital Journalism: The Time For Talk Is Done
I think ā and Iāve heard many others echo the same thought back to me ā that we have to stop talking about whether these tools are useful to journalists, and start using them to prove that they are. The danger weāre in right now is that many of the