The Future Of Publishing Blog by Thad McIlroy
August 14th, 2009
I have two clients currently (three if I count myself) who are asking the question: “How do I evaluate the essential quality of my website?” There are no shortage of metrics. Many look to the pretty good free service of Google Analytics. There are a ton of supplementary alternatives. I’m currently a subscriber to Visistat, recommended by…
July 3rd, 2009
I think it’s important for publishers to recognize a simple fact about where the Interent and the web are today in the United States. Here’s the picture: As you can easily see, as of April of this year, just under 60% of U.S. households had broadband Internet access at home. Canada and many European countries rank higher,…
June 26th, 2009
I’m encountering an increasing volume of commentary on blogs and in news analysis that newspaper and other periodical publishers are now searching for a workable method to start charging for all the content they’ve been giving away for the past decade+. Content may wish to be free, but publishers are determinedly searching for handcuffs or…
June 17th, 2009
A very funny clip of comedian Louis CK, appearing on Late Night with Conan O’Brien. Courtesy of my friend Bob McArthur, who in turn found it on The Digitalist, which noted that “this clip will resonate with anyone involved in digital publishing…”
May 1st, 2009
A very interesting blog entry on 4-29 from Joshua Benton, director of the Nieman Journalism Lab; the title: “Kindle users skew older; does that impact news biz’s revenue hopes?” Mr. Benton reports on an article from a subscriber-based newsletter called Publishers Lunch, which reported that “…over half of reporting Kindle owners are 50 or older,…