Entries in Magazines
Feb 7, 2012
Death by acquisition
There are alternatives
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Feb 2, 2012
Grow a fan base
Piracy and the Angry Birds channel
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Jan 29, 2012
Publishing plumbers
More evidence that 2012 is their year
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Jan 27, 2012
Innocence and magic
We were born with our eyes wide open
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Jan 26, 2012
Inflection points (2012)
Market growth, not digital share, tells a stronger story
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Jan 18, 2012
Meeting expectations
E-commerce shapes how publishers compete
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Jan 17, 2012
Not “no future”
Just not the future we might have predicted
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Jan 16, 2012
Digital back issues
A step toward custom content solutions
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Jan 15, 2012
Generation next
On the New York Times and its interns
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Jan 11, 2012
Industries blending
Following the money
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Jan 10, 2012
On perceived value
The Atlantic gets people to pay for content
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Jan 9, 2012
Warning signs
Mobile takes resources, but what is plan B?
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Jan 8, 2012
The next wave
Preparing for a mobile-first world
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Jan 6, 2012
Life’s little ironies
Only pirated mutants are human
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Jan 3, 2012
Your mileage may vary
Navigating a multitude of paths to digital
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Jan 1, 2012
Resolution: 2012
Write something useful every day
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Dec 30, 2011
Know your niches
Segmenting device adoption and use pays off
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Dec 29, 2011
New choke points
Dan Gillmor sees a content-controller oligopoly
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Dec 12, 2011
How life turns out
The odds of faith in the face of doubt
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Oct 27, 2011
On squeezing too tight
Remembering a conversation with Daniel Burke
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Aug 9, 2011
A shorter window for comments
Persistent spam takes its toll
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May 31, 2011
Treo 650, R.I.P.
Farewell to the original smartphone
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May 16, 2011
A new hope
Recognizing Anne O’Leary, Emerson class of 2011
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May 4, 2011
Department of “huh?”
Let’s pay journalists, too
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Apr 28, 2011
Selling the crown jewels
Growing publishing revenues starts with investments
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Apr 27, 2011
Predictive pricing
Maximizing content revenues requires new skills
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Apr 25, 2011
Looking elsewhere …
.. to save us from disruption
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Apr 22, 2011
Give Newsweek a break
At least they're trying to do something new
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Apr 17, 2011
Think windows, not doors
Magazine apps should make content consumption easier
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Feb 28, 2011
Light years behind
Direct relationships would benefit from, um, relationships
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Jan 19, 2011
Barebones and featureless
... and that's okay
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Jan 18, 2011
A digital convergence
Edelman Digital identifies 11 trends to watch in 2011
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Dec 16, 2010
Chief digital officers
"What you get when you don't get 'president.'"
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Dec 9, 2010
Name changer
From “journalism” to …
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Dec 1, 2010
Meet the new boss
Same as the old boss
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Nov 30, 2010
Roar of the greasepaint
Changing workflows to rise above the din of the web
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Nov 29, 2010
Not a graduated response
Weak analysis from people who should know better
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Nov 23, 2010
Do apps = paid content?
Making a modest case for browsers
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Nov 2, 2010
Valuing content
It’s about context
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Oct 29, 2010
Bringing customers inside
A real-world test of crowd-sourced strategy
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Oct 28, 2010
Lightning crashes
Remembering Patricia Gavin McCarthy, 1929 - 2010
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Sep 3, 2010
Ten rules for radicals
Carl Malamud's advice applies to publishing, as well
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Aug 27, 2010
Shame on us
An internship rant
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Aug 2, 2010
Blind spots
Tweaking Newsweek won't save it
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Jul 29, 2010
Learning to fly
No subscription apps before their time
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Jul 27, 2010
Beyond belief
The half-life of a digital strategy
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Jul 9, 2010
Pirates’ wages
Did stealing a hot story help sell magazines?
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Jul 6, 2010
Boom, like that
Content workflows could use some controlled destruction
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Jun 11, 2010
Look outside
Content brands: what problem do you solve for me?
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May 27, 2010
Border-less coverage
Relevance knows no bounds
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May 21, 2010
Learning from Palm
Rip tides at the intersection of content and technology
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May 20, 2010
Content dust bowls
“Brother, can you spare an article?”
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May 19, 2010
A tangled web
E-reading, monetization and privacy
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May 11, 2010
Media under water
Needed: less hand-wringing, more change
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May 10, 2010
Show your work, and ours
The BBC strengthens its use of outbound links
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May 5, 2010
At the top of their game
Greatness may be fleeting, and that's okay
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May 5, 2010
Changing publishing
Focus on community, not devices
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Apr 28, 2010
Wait… really?
"I don't think this means what you think it means"
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Apr 28, 2010
Rust never sleeps
Content providers will need some new skills
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Apr 27, 2010
On serendipity
Dreaming of tools that collate my interests
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Apr 26, 2010
Color my world
Single-use workflows are a costly conceit
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Apr 21, 2010
Growing on me
The sense in "linking real life to the digital world"
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Apr 20, 2010
The reader decides
Branding journalists may not be the answer, either
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Apr 19, 2010
Curation, seriously
Don't take the engine out of the car
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Apr 17, 2010
Digital CPR
Everything old is new again
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Apr 9, 2010
Do the legwork
Digging behind a press release pays off for Folio:
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Apr 8, 2010
Let’s pay interns
The Atlantic solves half the problem
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Apr 6, 2010
Law of the instrument
Don't outsource that which adds value
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Mar 31, 2010
False dichotomies
Stop saying “print is dead” to argue the opposite
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Mar 31, 2010
Socially responsible media
And now for something completely different
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Mar 29, 2010
The cost of denial
Doing business in a less forgiving world
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Mar 23, 2010
Not the prevailing wisdom
"It's a wonderful time to be in the B-to-B news business"
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Mar 19, 2010
Answer: “No”
Question: Could the iPad have saved
Gourmet?
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Mar 16, 2010
PIB revenues, R.I.P.
Add these calculations to the old business model heap
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Mar 12, 2010
Readers first
The slow decline of the content container
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Mar 3, 2010
The next convergence?
An M&A report combines media with marketing services
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Mar 2, 2010
Planting agile seeds
Conde Nast experiments with digital distribution
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Feb 23, 2010
Rewiring journalism
At TOC, talk of open source models
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Feb 11, 2010
Playing out the string
Mediaweek, every month or so
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Feb 5, 2010
Content and commerce
At a dealmaking summit, a call for broader revenue models
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Feb 3, 2010
Show me the data
The FT invests in digital data businesses
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Feb 1, 2010
Reporting: ante up
Bloomberg looks to add DC to its database
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Jan 29, 2010
A lesson from Tip O’Neill?
Maybe most media is local, too
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Jan 28, 2010
Tumblin’ down
“Something there is that doesn’t love a wall”
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Jan 25, 2010
Kindle periodicals
A match not made in heaven, but ...
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Jan 19, 2010
Mediabistro’s job report
A smaller pie with unequal slices
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Jan 18, 2010
From content to context
Gartner says the web will soon be mostly mobile
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Jan 13, 2010
Value before price
Circulation economics improve with your publication
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Jan 11, 2010
Content distribution deals
A risk in overplaying your hand, good or bad
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Jan 7, 2010
Mea culpa
Learning the right lessons on the wrong acquisitions
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Jan 5, 2010
Getting good advice
Five (plus one) ways to go right with a consultant
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Jan 4, 2010
Getting bad advice
Nine ways to go wrong with a consultant
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Dec 18, 2009
Media outlook: 2010
Folio: rounds up predictions for magazines and media
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Dec 10, 2009
Nielsen sells Mediaweek
Maybe the new owners will worry about delivery
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Dec 7, 2009
On business models
Pride, prejudice and a different kind of zombie
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Dec 6, 2009
A newsstand “why not?”
Supporting both volume and efficiency at BN and Borders
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Dec 5, 2009
BYO device
Is this any way to run a partnership?
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Dec 4, 2009
“Where did he go?”
On taking month-long vacations in the stratosphere
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Oct 28, 2009
Format as brand
Comforting ... wrong
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Oct 24, 2009
Periodical apps
They may not save media, but they are worth considering
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