Random Mumblings (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
The twin pieces Scott Karp and I did for the summer edition of Nieman Reports on "link journalism" and political coverage are now online. The printed mag came out a few weeks ago....
E - Editors Weblog (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
"All the talk about 'saving newspapers' is focused on finding new business models to keep doing what they've always done," writes blogger Scott Karp. "Which is like GM looking for a new business model to sell the kinds of cars...
From Istanbul To Sand Hill Road (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
Written by Nick Carr for The Atlantic, it's titled "Is Google Making Us Stupid?" It's long and you will want to read the whole thing, even though the article is about why you probably won't be able to read the whole thing. In case you don't, the following piece quotes Scott Karp, the founder of Publish2 (a Velocity Portfolio Company), who summarizes articulately what may be (or will be) happening to...
Publishing 2.0 (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
As newspaper companies lose billions in market capitalization and innovation-minded journalists battle newsroom "curmudgeons" shell-shocked by the rapid pace of change amid increasingly dire economic realities, a lesson in burn-the-rule-book transformation might come from an unexpected source: General Motors. That's right, the once-dominate car maker, which missed every trend that has lead to Toyota's...
Times emit (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
I’ve bemoaned (to readers in RSS) the generally dire quality of this year’s BEA BookExpoCasts. However yesterday I listened to two of their most recent postings, both of a digital bent. The first was hosted by Mike Shatzkin and is called “Teaching some old publishing dogs new tricks” and features some “learnings” from third-party tech vendors, on [...]
Stowe Boyd's (Free subscription) | 06/22/2008
Nick Carr suggests in his recent Atlantic Monthly article, Is Google Making Us Stupid', that the way we use the Web is changing the way we operate, which he is mistakenly characterizing as becoming stupid: I can feel it, too....
Publishing 2.0 (Free subscription) | 06/18/2008
For several days my brain has been connecting the blogstorm over AP trying to dictate how much of their content can be quoted on the web with the "quote" that Nick Carr lifted from one of my blog posts in his Atlantic article -- I finally figured out why. The problem with the AP isn't [...]
Mark Logic CEO Blog (Free subscription) | 06/17/2008
Just a quick post to highlight two great posts by Scott Karp of Publishing 2.0 about what traditional newspaper and magazine publishers still get don't get about the web. What Magazines Still Don't Understand about the Web What Newspapers Still Don't Understand about the Web The posts -- and the comments -- should be required reading for traditional publishers.
Publishing 2.0 (Free subscription) | 06/16/2008
The Associated Press is facing a blog firestorm after issuing take down notices to Drudge Retort for linking to and reproducing snippets of AP stories. AP is now attempting to define how their stories can be linked to and excerpted -- and the response from the blogosphere appears to be to boycott the AP, i.e. [...]
Publishing 2.0 (Free subscription) | 06/13/2008
Google is taking a big shot at Facebook in the PR war over data portability and social network interoperability. I signed in to Google Friend Connect, implemented on the Go2Web2.0 blog, and saw this: Normally, you wouldn't list a service that isn't a partner, but in this case Google chose to list Facebook and let users [...]
Publishing 2.0 (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
Since I already drilled a nerve with What Newspapers Still Don't Understand About The Web, which is on its way to becoming one of my most linked posts ever -- and since everyone loves a sequel -- I thought I would do a follow up for magazines. The lessons, of course, apply to every [...]
MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 06/09/2008
"I found the interaction between two of your posts [last week] interesting," writes Aaron Hierholzer of the Greenleaf Book Group . "The report on the Publishing 2.0 model panel and the Kindle 's nonexistent profit margins highlighted part of the problem e-books face before they take root: there's no consensus on what their main role is." "Are they best as a tool to spur print sales (as Derek Powazek...
E - Editors Weblog (Free subscription) | 06/09/2008
Publishing 2.O's Scott Karp argued in his article "What Newspapers Still Don't Understand About The Web", that online newspaper formats are inhibiting viewers' ability to find the news they want.His article outlined a simple test that he had completed to...
Conversation Agent (Free subscription) | 06/08/2008
Scott Karp over at Publishing 2.0 has an interesting discussion going about the unnecessary frustration users experience at the sites of main stream media publications. In a previous post, Scott attributes the problem to the fact that stories are written with the print mentality even for the online version. That is probably one of the reasons why many new media networks are starting to gain ground...
The Software Abstractions Blog (Free subscription) | 06/07/2008
Scott Karp of Publishing 2.0 recently wrote an article about newspapers and the web in general, and about the Washington Post in particular: What Newspapers Still Don't Understand About the Web. Karp feels that the Post doesn't really get the...
