Category Archives: media

Web companies discover a century-old corporate media tradition that’s always new

An article by Brian Stelter in today’s New York Times (temporary non-punitive URL: http://nyti.ms/xmYt1L) reports that Tumblr is hiring editors and writers to cover itself.* Quote from the executive editor Tumblr has hired: “Basically, if Tumblr were a city of … Continue reading

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The frightening future of the entertainment industry

In light of last week’s posts  about the entertainment industry’s effort to enact the legislation called SOPA (here and here), I saw a couple of items early this morning that reminded me that much of the reason that industry wants to out-legislate … Continue reading

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The Hammock 20th Anniversary Guides to Content that Works

As I’ve mentioned before on this blog, this year marks the 20th anniversary of Hammock Inc., the company that provides me the keyboard on which I type these blog posts. Since I don’t blog a lot about what we do … Continue reading

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Google acquires Apture: Context also is king

[Note: At the end of this post, I've added a link to information regarding the "end" to the current iteration of Apture.] You know how it seems that now-a-days, it’s social media this and social media that? That’s getting dated. … Continue reading

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Solid Rocks & Flowing Rivers

On Twitter last night, Dave Winer pointed back to a prescient* post he wrote in March of last year that includes a reference to the Chinese proverb: “If you sit by the river long enough you will see the body … Continue reading

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It’s the words and photos, not bells and whistles, that make reading-media work

If I had time, I’d write a post that would reflect on what Patricio Robles says here and what Khoi Vinh said here. Short version (and, with apologies, some inside baseball): Condé Nast’s most successful magazine iPad app is the … Continue reading

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More great news about Goldilocks non-fiction

[credit] It’s somewhat ironic that “short” and “long” are both being used to describe a length of non-fiction writing that I believe will change book and magazine publishing as significantly as anything we’ve seen since Amazon.com first came online. “Long” … Continue reading

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I wonder what young Jann Wenner would say

When I read this Ad Age interview with Jann Wenner, I thought of all the iconic photography of him from the late 1960s and early 1970s, much of it shot by Annie Leiboviz. Click on that photo of he and … Continue reading

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Content isn’t king, Creative and talented people are

[Note: By mistake, I posted an early draft of this item earlier. While no post on this blog has ever been more than a draft (finished stuff appears elsewhere in my "distribution chain," I have a feeling the earlier version … Continue reading

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What ‘Second coming type’ looks like on a website front page

On the walls of most newspaper newsrooms I’ve visited over the years, there are displayed some framed front pages of issues reporting historic events. The term “second-coming type” is the phrase I’ve heard to describe the screaming headlines that dominate … Continue reading

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Paywall vs. Solving the Satisfaction Paradox

In his continuously insightful fashion, Kevin Kelly describes the “satisfaction paradox” and the value of recommendations in the context of endless (and often free) choices: “The paradox of satisfaction suggests that the tools we employ to increase our satisfaction of … Continue reading

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Rex Live: Exploring the impact and opportunities of mobile media

During the next week, I’ll be with a group of journalists and a group of publishers who, in different ways, are exploring a similar topic: What are media creators and users learning about what works (and doesn’t) when content is … Continue reading

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Why something truly local can’t be a scalable business model

Yesterday, I attended a couple of hours of a day-long gathering of 600+ people, primarily from Nashville and drivable distances away. While the event was labeled “Podcamp,” it didn’t resemble what those early geek-camp things called “barcamps” were like — … Continue reading

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It’s a magazine if you say it’s a magazine (me, I’m a print and screen publisher)

Here’s something I used to care about, but don’t anymore: the word “magazine.” I still care about magazines (both professionally and personally), it’s the word I don’t care about anymore: what it is, what it means, on what one can … Continue reading

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Lipstick on an old media business model doesn’t make it new media

Regular readers of this blog know of my decade-long knee-jerk reactions to any notion that media intended to directly connect sellers and buyers is somehow: 1. Something new 2. Obviously unethical 3. Misleading to the audience. Today, the New York … Continue reading

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