Just wanted to share some of the best posts I have read about the future of newspapers/magazines. Feel free to add others in the comments and I will update.
Newspapers and thinking the unthinkable – Clay Shirky
This superb post (its also quite long – but worth the read) starts off with a bang, quoting Gordy Thompson [...]
Since it is what we have been doing for 2.5 years, and are now starting to do for others, I thought it would be worth getting some posts out about the various methods for content personalization. This first post looks at the major issue that any personalized system faces – the “cold start” problem. Until [...]
Yesterday leading mobile blog Mobile Industry Review announced it is to stop providing it’s content for free to readers and instead charge for access.
One company has bought our entire output exclusively, on-going. We are, in effect, becoming a private research company.
Our new client is unwilling to subsidise our existing audience of readers (300-400k last [...]
Hot on the heels of the New York Times Article Search API, The Guardian has launched it’s own series of APIs. With the aim of making content and data open, weaving it “into the fabric of the internet” they are giving away the raw fact checked data sets used to produce infographics and articles.
In addition [...]
As Dawn Alford, Tesco Magazine’s editor, described in the Independent last week, her publication is now the UK’s top women’s mag with a circulation of 5.65m people. That’s pretty impressive – and congratulations are certainly in order, both for Tesco, and for her and Cedar (the custom pub agency that produces it).
This points to an [...]
A lively debate last night at NMK’s debate – “What happens to Magazines?”…
The demise of Arena last week invoked an interesting conversation about the power of blogging led by Ashley Norris, founder of Shiny Media. Where Arena’s digital offering really fell down, it was noted, was their lack of interaction from readers – without an [...]
