August 2011
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January 2011
3 posts
“Stop listening to newspaper people. We have had nearly 15 years to figure out...”
– John Paton, CEO of Journal Register (via soupsoup)
“So the idea of the cafe, public lounge and free Wi-Fi isn’t to make money on...”
– Walk In, Grab a Muffin and Watch a Newspaper Reinvent Itself - NYTimes.com (via slantback)
“So the idea of the cafe, public lounge and free Wi-Fi isn’t to make money on...”
– Walk In, Grab a Muffin and Watch a Newspaper Reinvent Itself - NYTimes.com (via slantback)
August 2010
2 posts
June 2010
1 post
Today's Guardian →
dailymeh:
Phil Gyford wanted an online newspaper that had less friction, more readability and what he calls “finishability”:
Finally, I wanted finishability. I wanted to be able to read today’s news, know I’d read it all, and that I’m done until tomorrow. Again, this is not too difficult if you’re willing to accept that the contents of the print newspaper is a reasonable solution.
So he built...
May 2010
2 posts
catbird:
That’s one page of the Huffington Post.
What’s the takeaway here? That the way to “win” isn’t about thoughtfully designed, clear, simple, intuitive interfaces and experiences. It’s about throwing every single piece of crap you can find onto the screen all at once and then crosslinking the hell out of it until your servers bleed.
BTW, the Huffington Post has about 12.5 million...
January 2010
4 posts
After Three Months, Only 35 Subscriptions for... →
squashed:
In late October, Newsday, the Long Island daily that the Dolans bought for $650 million, put its web site, newsday.com, behind a pay wall. The paper was one of the first non-business newspapers to take the plunge by putting up a pay wall, so in media circles it has been followed with interest. Could its fate be a sign of what others, including The New York Times, might expect? So,...
“I assumed the drunks on the OpEd page did not care about what they did to your...”
– The Big Picture » Blog Archive » WSJ Jumps the Shark
Rafer sez: The low road doesn’t work. The high road may not either, of course.
(via rafer
)
The same thing happened to CNN. On any given day the story about Michael Jackson or the latest girl fallen down a well would win them higher...
“Ook al zijn kranten en andere journalisten nog steeds belangrijke leveranciers...”
– Erwin Blom - Blog - Het filter verplaatst, het echte kiezen gebeurt elders
“Oh look, as it turns out the Riverfront Times is just another newspaper that is...”
– Airbag - Bipolar.
December 2009
3 posts
The Future: When the Editors Hire the Publishers →
My friend’s point was: here is an editor, who built and owns his publication, who is now going to be the editor-owner, who will employ the publisher. For those of you who have worked at any sort of publication, the implications of this are staggering.
via daringfireball
statosphere: 36% of the world's newspapers are... →
“Newspapers aren’t in trouble because people are copying the news....”
– Seth’s Blog: How to protect your ideas in the digital age
November 2009
3 posts
The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs: Why the mainstream... →
Because time after time, blogs are simply beating the shit out of the newspapers. They’re the ones who still dare to go for the throat, while their counterparts at big newspapers just keep reaching for the shrimp cocktail.
As for the newspapers: Faced with their own demise, fearful of losing even more advertising, newspapers have made the huge mistake of becoming ever more timid, more...
