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How To Speed Up In The Slowdown, According To Google
Jun 10, 2009 4:40
Google shares some advice on how to cope in the recession: “As businesses work to come to terms with the economic slowdown, digital insights and tools can offer you real assistance. [...] In a world of rapid change and much uncertainty, it is vital to build these capabilities. Emerging from the slowdown, the ability to [...]
Quantity Vs. Quality. Does The Web Stupify Our Culture?
May 28, 2009 5:26
For years I’ve been thinking about quantity and quality on the web. There is so much fixation on quantity and anything you can put a number on. Show me the number of visitors to your site, and I’ll tell you who you are. Seemingly the beauty of numbers is that they promise comparability across languages, [...]
Editor-In-Chief Of The Guardian On The Future of Journalism
Apr 28, 2009 0:59
A fresh look (only a few hours old) at the future of journalism, from one of the guys who are actively shaping it: Alan Rusbridger, editor-in-chief of The Guardian, on the future of journalism. “Always look to see what the technology journalists are doing. Because that’s how we’re all going to be working in five [...]
How Many Reporters Do We Need?
Feb 18, 2009 5:25
How Many Reporters Does It Take To Unscrew A Lightbulb? I don’t have the exact answer to this question, but as I argue below looking at just some of the trouble in today’s newspaper industry, the answer is probably ‘Too many, and too well paid’. Steve Rubel had an interesting post yesterday, stating that the [...]
Get Started With A Digital Publishing Strategy
Feb 17, 2009 8:14
For publishers interested in tips to how to get started with a digital publishing strategy, I wrote a very hands-on post on the Issuu blog. It has a lot of examples and cases, which hopefully can inspire anyone wanting to take a crack at getting their publications (excerpts, promotional/free publications and marketing material/catalogs) online and [...]
Europeana, The European Wikipedia Alternative is Back Online
Jan 14, 2009 2:35
The database and portal for European culture is back online. I mentioned them a while ago as an EU alternative to mainly US-based information aggregation services (such as Google and Wikipedia). When they first launched they crashed due to overwhelming traffic. Have a look. I tried searching for famous wild painter Karel Appel (he’s Dutch) [...]
Any Bloggers Out There Using Print As A Revenue Source? No? There Ought To Be
Jan 12, 2009 8:20
Thinking a bit more on the topic of my previous post, about RSS-to-PDF conversion services, I would like to propose a way for these services to make actual money. Like I already said, I hardly think anyone will pay to get their feeds as PDF attachments over email, as many free RSS-to-email services are available [...]
RSS to PDF Converters Showdown: FeedJournal vs. Tabbloid
Jan 8, 2009 6:32
Blogging is publishing, right? But it never really achieves that print-and-ink feeling, right? Wrong. Well, sort of. I’ve been playing with two blog-to-PDF services (actually RSS-to-PDF), as it’s a nice thing to compile your precious writings once in a while. You can email it to your Mom who doesn’t get blogging, or print it to [...]
Mygazines is Back From the Dead, Now Trying to Make a Buck
Jan 7, 2009 14:19
I’m pretty sure I was one of the first to note that Mygazines, the dirty and thus popular magazine sharing site, was dead. Now, I came across this 22 days old random tweet, and curiously followed the old URL to see what was up. Yes, indeed, Mygazines is back. [Update: Digging around a bit more, [...]
7 Cases to Show You How Digital Publishing Does Not Compete With Print
Jan 6, 2009 1:31
Sorry for stating in the title what’s obvious to you educated readers. But after reading a highly qualified rant by Kassia Krozser’s over at Booksquare, it’s clear that publishers think differently. Luckily Kassia spells it out to them: Ebooks are a new, different market. You, dear publishers, have been given that rarest of gifts: a [...]