The Critical Mistake that Keeps Bloggers Broke | Copyblogger
Great, succinct post by Larry Brooks over at CopyBlogger that is a must read for all my students and colleagues, especially the ones who are either recently laid off from journalism or writing about how to “save journalism.”
Your blog is a strategy, a branding and marketing vehicle, a means toward an end.
Your business is the [...]
Sign of the Times: For Newspapers to Survive, They Must Put Users First | Design Pragmatist | Fast Company
This is an excellent article that discusses newspapers not from the perspective of “saving journalism” but for saving advertising and publishing from a user experience perspective. Must read.
Sign of the Times: For Newspapers to Survive, They Must Put Users First | Design Pragmatist | Fast Company.
CHART OF THE DAY: In Case You Had Any Doubts About Where Google’s Revenue Comes From
Well, obviously a high bounce rate and providing web services at a very high level is a very good way to deliver a lot of advertising impressions.
CHART OF THE DAY: In Case You Had Any Doubts About Where Google’s Revenue Comes From.
AOL Moves to Build Tech ‘Newsroom of the Future’ – BusinessWeek
Good press that may move the stock needle for the old guard investors, but AOL seems to be making another, deeper step into being a TimeWarner style content company here. Once, AOL’s greatest features were community driven – instant messenger, e-mail, buddy lists — all of the old bbs community features that kept people in [...]
A history of media technology scares, from the printing press to Facebook. – By Vaughan Bell – Slate Magazine
I posted this one over anthrotechnologist.com – but it is so good, I wanted to share it here also:
A respected Swiss scientist, Conrad Gessner, might have been the first to raise the alarm about the effects of information overload. In a landmark book, he described how the modern world overwhelmed people with data and that [...]
Promising online news organizations – The hunt is on | Knight Digital Media Center
saw this retweeted a lot yesterday, so i wanted to check it out.
Promising online news organizations – The hunt is on | Knight Digital Media Center.
i think it is an admirable and well- intentioned effort, and i realize it is just getting started. i wanted to post this comment, but it didn’t quite work out [...]
YouTube – The world’s most generic news report – Charlie Brooker’s Newswipe
YouTube – The world’s most generic news report – Charlie Brooker’s Newswipe.
Arianna's welcome to Tucker on dailycaller points out journolazy he said/ she said
I’ve linked up to and commented on Jay Rosen’s blog posts about He Said, She Said journalism before, and I will keep doing it because his bandwagon is playing the song I’ve sung for years. I think it is a rampant problem in the current state of affairs, one that many journalists are refusing to [...]
Should the Chinese Wall Between Editorial and Advertorial Be Torn Down? — Seeking Alpha
Good writeup at Seeking Alpha by Mathew Ingram on the recent restructuring at Belo’s paper in Dallas. I’ve been in groups that have talked and pitched models at news publishers to create a “content mall” philosophy where authors are vendors/rentors and the publisher is a service platform and landlord. Huffington Post has a good platform [...]