Here’s a sign of the times from Jason Preston’s Eat, Sleep, Publish blog. He writes: It’s increasingly difficult, and maybe impossible, to run a profitable content company on the internet if you’re paying for your content to be produced. Well, we kind of knew that, given how difficult it is to find paying freelance writing […]
I am, for one, as I’ve finally got my act together to sign up. There’s a list of registered delegates (so far) here. I’m looking forward to it. There are some interesting names, both speaking and attending, plus I get the chance to meet some folk who I know via Freelance Unbound, but have never seen […]
I’ve been posting a bit about dithering between WordPress and Drupal for a web development project, and also which one to use for a student learning environment. Fellow blogger Soilman is in a similar position – though he’s dithering between Drupal and Expression Engine for bigger, corporate sites. Here’s how he compares the two: Drupal […]
Here’s a teaser for those WordPress stats geeks who simply can’t wait until March to read the full-year update on this blog’s web analytics. Moving to self-hosted WordPress away from the coziness of WordPress.com has caused a certain amount of stats upheaval. Primarily this is because I now have Google Analytics installed. WP stats Up until […]
The sad news that venerable journalism industry magazine Editor & Publisher is to close apparently reached fourth place in Twitter’s trending topics list yesterday. Which seems to confirm my theory that it’s journalists who are all over Twitter like flies on a dead dog. According to the E&P web site: The name “Editor & Publisher” […]
Just discovered via Taking Out The Trash – venerable “journal of parapolitics” Lobster has moved to online only distribution. I subscribed to Lobster for several years back in the 1990s. I often found it hard going (there’s only so much I can ever want to know about the Bilderberg Group). But the whole microwaves and […]
Electronic newspapers and magazines are being touted by the media industry as a way of clinging on to readers and revenue. Adobe spent a couple of days at last month’s MediaPro 09 publishing expo in London heavily pushing its Air publishing tool, which allows clients to publish a digital facsimile of their newspaper or magazine (complete […]
After last week’s unmissable, $30 a month opportunity to write for a potential audience of 24 million, how about this ad for a “Home based internet researcher”? For some reason, though the deadline hadn’t passed when I first grabbed the ad, the ad was dropped from Journalism.co.uk before the stated closing date. Maybe 63336 Limited has […]
Spotted on Yahoo News: Beyoné leads the way at the Grammys Ouch…
Tuesday’s trip to Bristol to meet fellow blogger and digital evangelist Bristol Editor, and hang out with my old animation buddies from UWE, was enlivened by a drama playing out on local radio station Original 106.5FM. The station was apparently hijacked by “shock newspaper columnist” Mike Ford – a supposedly controversial contributer to the Bristol Evening […]