From Dublin, Ireland comes Eoin Purcell’s Blog, one of the best blogs on where publishing is heading, albeit with a primary focus on book publishing.
Today’s delightful entry, “My 2009 Publishing Heroes” is to me a fine example of the web at its best. Through this blog entry I was introduced to five new thinkers whom [...]
Eoin Purcell has an excellent blog on publishing, and one of his very useful entries is called “The Top Ten Blogs on the future of books, media and publishing.” Though it’s going on three years old, all are still active and valuable.
I list a selection of my favorites here: http://thefutureofpublishing.com/pages/Friends.html
I’ll keep adding to it: there’s [...]
According to the Harper’s Index in the August issue of the same magazine, which cannot be seen here unless a subscriber, 94% of blogs have not been updated in the last four months (Harper’s quotes Technorati as the source).
We’ve seen it all before in the long-forgotten days of print journalism. One minute you’re reading a story about a great new restaurant in a newspaper or city magazine and then you turn the page and, oh-my-gosh, there’s an advertisement from the very same restaurant. What a coincidence! Publishers have struggled with paid “journalism” since [...]
One of the great features of blogging is where what appears to be a single entry is in fact a combination of two, or, in this case, of three different “articles.”
My Google newsfeed directed me tonight to an interesting blog entry by literary agent Kristin Nelson titled “Is Publishing Just About To Be Disrupted?” The [...]
The title of this blog is the same as one appearing today on Chris Brogan’s thoughtful blog.
After a brief intro he offers the following:
The Next Media Company Manifesto
Here’s what I believe might (emphasis mine) need to be true about the next media company:
Stories are points in time, but won’t end at publication. (Edits, updates, extensions [...]
The ubiquitous eMarketer todays reports on the Twitter explosion, providing data that complements my earlier blog on the topic.
The most salient piece of data in the article is that “eMarketer estimates there were roughly 6 million Twitter users in the US in 2008, or 3.8% of Internet users.” That less than 4% of Internet users [...]
Yes, the secret of Twitter’s remarkable success can be found in an article in this morning’s USA Today.
Unemployed Jason Hirshborn states, “I love the idea of telling people what I’m thinking without having to talk to them,” he says. But, as he points out, it’s a two-way street: “I’m able to ingest a lot more [...]
“If any industry deserves to go under, it’s the publishing industry.” So writeth Andrew Sullivan in his popular blog, “The Daily Dish.”
I found the quote on another blog, a blog far more well-rounded than Mr. Sullivan’s, that of Nathan Bransford, a literary agent with the venerable Curtis Brown (my father’s literary agency many years [...]
Many will have read the news that last Sunday Tyson Gay
set a new record of 9.68 seconds in the U.S. Olympic track and field trials, although
the victory was disqualified as a world-record because it was “wind-aided.â€Â
The story making the blog rounds today is a hilarious
footnote to his notable performance.
A posting
by Amy Gahran at Poynter Online [...]
