We have been thinking and experimenting a lot recently with news delivery, and I’ve come to the conclusion that Wikipedia has already solved many of the issues of news delivery. Ok, it wouldn’t pass the criteria of the NYT’s design department, but it provides a working reference for how we should look at news interfaces.
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A huge amount has been said about Google’s latest move in its love-hate relationship with content publishers. There is no need to repeat that all here, so if you haven’t already, see the following:
Paidcontent with a good overview of the product.
Techspheres with a somewhat overblown reaction about how it will kill the newspaper industry.
Read Write [...]
Its a sad story, but one we must learn from. Businessweek was founded in 1929, and by the 1990’s was seeing a circulation of more than 1 million people. It used to carry more advertising pages than any other US magazine (up to 6000 pages in 2000), and was a profitable, valuable, and well-regarded publishing [...]
After reading this fantastic post on the Future of Journalism blog, I’ve been inspired to collect together the best quotes about this emotive issue. With no further delay, here is The Future of News: In quotes.
The basics:
Clay Shirky explaining the desire of news audiences to share content:
When a 14 year old kid can blow up [...]
Communication over instant messenger tend to be continous and casual, with ebbs and flows, rather than discrete conversations. Wikipedia has changed encyclopedias from being static and authored, to dynamic and crowdsourced, with popular pages usually containing references that are correct up the very day of viewing. Facebook claims to be the biggest media company in [...]
Several people have asked me recently for suggestions on good sources of news and analysis regarding the future of the media industry. So I have bundled up my favourite feeds on this topic into an OPML file, which you can import into Google Reader, or any other feed reader (see below for details).
The OPML file [...]
Dan Thornton (ex-Bauer Media) wrote an interesting post recently titled “Is any magazine company leading the way digitally?“, which looked at recent moves in the digital magazine publishing industry as it grapples with the world of online publishing. So in search of a ‘good’ digital magazine strategy, here is what the consumer magazine publishers seem [...]
After the secretive meeting of newspaper executives a few weeks ago, at which the economic future of the industry was discussed in depth (see my thoughts here), there has been a splurge of coverage about the companies that are positioning themselves as the newspapers’ saviour.
The Guardian recently reviewed the startup ecosystem that is forming around [...]
Over at Magforum, Tony Quinn has compiled a “History of the Digital Magazine” which gives a good overview of the digital developments in the magazine industry over the last three decades. It’s certainly worth a read. Some highlights include:
1982 – Magazines start to use email and electronic mailboards
1983 – Viewdata systems deliver magazine content via [...]
The decline of print media has been explored endlessly. Everyone is agreed that the traditional business model is broken. And most people agree that there is no silver bullet which will solve the problems facing publishers in this new environment.
To summarise the new reality:
Print circulation is declining across the board, and in many cases will [...]
