I recently came across this video again – and thought it was worth sharing. It is a great way of explaining some of the massive changes that are sweeping through the information economy. It finishes with a very pertinent question: are we ready? Enjoy!
I was recently quoted in the International Federation of the Periodical Press’ Magazine World report regarding iPhone apps. It was just passed through to me so I thought I would mention it for those interested (there are a couple of good articles in there – including the cover story on Syndication). You can read the [...]
Quick post on something I only found out about a few weeks ago:
Google has a program to allow publishers with paywalls to include their results in Google’s rankings, whilst allowing searchers to read the article they click off to for free.
I’m sure most publishers considering paid content have seen this, but for those who haven’t…
It’s [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
A few weeks ago I wrote a review of the best iPhone apps that magazines had produced. You can read it here. Some of these apps were paid, some free with advertising included, and some just me-too apps offering a basic rendering of the publishers RSS feed.
If you follow iPhone news, you will have heard [...]
