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Subcompact Publishing 28 Nov 2012 | 02:01 am
Craig Mod does a much better job than I did a few posts back in articulating what is so special and revolutionary about Marco Arment’s The Magazine, which Mod cites as an exemplar of what he dubs Subc...
Mobile surges for online purchases, but Android is slipping. Why? 26 Nov 2012 | 07:33 pm
Horace Dediu has some interesting data today on the growth of mobile as a percentage of Black Friday online purchases. This year, mobile accounted for nearly one-quarter of all purchases. Use that dat...
Tragedy of the commons? 14 Nov 2012 | 08:16 pm
Even though Gallup’s complaint sounds an awful lot like newspapers decrying those darned aggregators & search engines, and Salon calls sour grapes and jealousy, there’s some truth here: If everyone we...
How one geek just outdid the entire publishing industry 26 Oct 2012 | 06:26 am
Most of my friends and colleagues in journalism or the magazine world have never heard of Marco Arment. A few more may have actually used his offline article reader, Instapaper. But I’d be willing to ...
Know your rights: Fair Use 11 Aug 2012 | 12:43 am
Though it’s tempting to make a meta-joke and simply copy/paste the entire study here, here’s a pointer toward an excellent study from American University released recently on journalists and the conce...
Did Craiglist just leave the door open a crack? 3 Aug 2012 | 12:24 am
Ben Brooks has a great post that gets straight to the point about a business that, suddenly, is wide-open with possibilities again: Local classified ads. I can’t be the only one that thinks Craigslist...
What if your users actually want to play along with NBC’s tape-delay? 31 Jul 2012 | 09:49 pm
Jay Rosen just asked this on Twitter: So how come no one’s writing about the odd and forbidding art of eluding the news when you want to watch a race on tape delay in prime time? The answer I had … Co...
Sparrow in the coal mine 24 Jul 2012 | 10:03 pm
I’m as guilty as the next guy for grumbling when I heard that Sparrow — the excellent OS X and iOS mail client — was just end-of-lifed thanks to Google purchasing it and the team that developed it. I...
Just enough news: Next Draft 21 Jul 2012 | 04:36 am
Following on my post about Evening Edition, I wanted to drop a quick note here about Dave Pell’s excellent Next Draft, a daily mid-day email newsletter that does a fine job of assembling a few-minutes...
Editing the news: In 2012 it’s a bold new idea 20 Jul 2012 | 02:14 am
Mark Twain didn’t actually say “I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time.” (It was Blaise Pascal.) But the point holds. Writing short and tight takes time. Which might expl...
