October 2009
19 posts
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“So, we asked New York Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. at last night’s...”
– Times Publisher Compares Print Media to the Titanic — Daily Intel (via notesandlinks)
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My Stance on LinkedIn (Simpler.)
LinkedIn is an online resume tool with a thin social veneer. In terms of updates that you can expect to receive, they generally come in the flavour of ‘person X is now connected to person Y’, ‘person Z has recommended person Y’ and ‘You may know person Z’.
If you’re connected to someone, you can send a message to them, or read their profile. You can...
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“My little brother almost bought an album from iTunes the other day because it...”
– (via danielpatricio)
Bankrupting potential customers would be universally panned as moronic if it was a pricing strategy.
Why is it an appropriate response to piracy?
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Entirely Unplanned Obsolescence.
I’m not a fan of LinkedIn. I’m on there, of course. I keep my account fairly updated. I respect the profitability and valuation. I just happen to think it has a timeline built in that the founders may have not considered.
LinkedIn is social networking for people who are afraid of social networking. To be more accurate, it’s social networking for people who are convinced...
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Crack Pricing and iPhone Apps.
I had an excellent conversation this week, discussing pricing and the iTunes App Store. The recent shift to allow for free applications to charge for in-app services or features, has created an ecosystem that is conducive to crack pricing - that is, the stereotypical ‘the first one’s free’ pricing scheme associated to the sales of addictive drugs.
The example in question was...
iA » Links in Print: Story of a Beautiful Failure →
dhock:
Awesome stuff - UX as applied to a newspaper in a pitch, plus the full presentation deck. They may have lost, but their thought process is solid.
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Google Sucks at New. →
(Re-published today on the Maisonneuve blog.)
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Google Sucks at New.
I’ve been talking at length about the launch of Google Wave. As a product, I don’t feel I can judge accurately yet. As a (soft) launch, I feel very comfortable labeling it a failure.
It’s a failure for a few reasons, the first of these being that Google has never really done anything new before. And unsurprisingly, new is a hell of a lot harder than better.
*Deep Breath.*
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One of the internet's most important legacies is... →
mikehudack:
(via peterfeld)
Quite right. I’ll never forget when I started getting traffic for my political / war blog. I had no credentials. I was an eighteen year old (seventeen year old?) high school drop-out. But people read. Eventually millions of them. Even people in the White House and DoD and ODCI. And the New York Times never would have given me an inch of column space. All I...
Why content sites are getting ripped off ... →
mikehudack:
rahmin:
“content sites have no way to track their role in generating purchasing intent. Often intent generation doesn’t involve a single trackable click. Even if there were some direct way to measure intent generation, doing so would be seen by many today as a blurring of the the advertising/editorial line. So content sites are left only with impression-based display ads,...
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Would your business benefit from a content...
It’s an odd question, but luckily we’re in an odd time. The expectation is that you will create content, and will have a brand that lives where the conversation is. 5 years ago, what mattered most in terms of online presence was your website. Now it’s your wikipedia page, comments on the blogs of others, YouTube, more or less the first page of google results.
Your statements...
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Non-specific Journalism Thoughts.
When I was outlining potential issues and solutions for the future of journalism, one theme came up. A theme that, due to one of my best friends being a journalist, has come up repeatedly in the past.
The current model of journalistic authority is inherently at odds with the way authority is determined online. As much as getting people to pay for news is an issue, this is a bigger one.
The...
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This is what my notes look like: New Models for...
[This is how I develop ideas - piles of vaguely sentence structured notes, that are thrown into a folder, and revisited when time allows. I’m posting this in part to get input from the handful of people who read this, and in part because I’d like to see if anyone can add that extra x factor.]
5 person teams: editor / writer (2), developer, videographer / editor, designer. Publishing...
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Build Fast, Market Hard →
heyitsnoah:
Interesting post over at Influx Insights about a company that’s gone to building iPhone apps in 48 hours. It hits on two big points I’ve been throwing around in my head for a few months now: First, couldn’t you keep down costs and fail faster if you gave yourself an artificial deadline? This recognizes that we’re not launching final products after the first iteration, but rather...
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Television: Failure of Effort.
There are failures that are unpredictable. There are failures of imagination, where the solution exists, but no one can discover it in time. And there are failures of effort where you have a model that is failing, a model that would clearly work, and an obvious way to join them. And you don’t.
Television is going to be the most catastrophic failure of effort in my lifetime.
Audiences...
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There is no line.
I’m officially uncomfortable with anyone who thinks there’s some line in the sand between the internet and real life. We’re not quite at the augmented reality stage where the internet behaves like an information layer on top of the universe, but we’re definitely far past the point where we can pretend that the internet isn’t a prosthetic for informational and social...
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Channel You is Outdated.
The concept of a single channel for a single personality is outdated. When such a thing was an issue of cost, or of effort, you could argue that each person only needed on journal, one outlet, one website.
The amount of money, effort, and time needed to establish separate channels is now negligible. And there is still (perhaps always) value in segmentation.
For the last several years,...