Twitter could be a victim of its own success. It keeps attracting millions of users, but can’t generate revenues to pay for the increasing bandwidth costs.
Read more about the joy of Twitter (and the monetization issue) at 37signals.
Twitter could be a victim of its own success. It keeps attracting millions of users, but can’t generate revenues to pay for the increasing bandwidth costs.
Read more about the joy of Twitter (and the monetization issue) at 37signals.
Copyblogger often sends Swiss Tony emails. Copywriting is like the 90’s hit single by Extreme ‘More than words’…(alas I made this one up, but you get the gist)
Despite the dubious titles, some are worth reading. Take a look.
Citizen journalism websites can’t survive according to a post by journalism.co.uk’s John Ndege, the founder of start-up ScribbleSheet.
Instead, Networked Journalism sites which integrate users into their professional set up have more than a fighting chance. Why? Because they provide the collaborative appeal of CJ websites, while retaining the quality of professional publications. Read more about Networked Journalism at Buzzmachine.
Sure, there’s been a strong reaction to Kingdon’s move on Linden’s own site (which i-boy has helpfully published), but George himself is just as scathing. Check out the multiple choice options!
Shiny Media’s gadget site for laides ShinyShiny has been the subject of flash mob rule (see what I did there?) by commenters from the Fark website.
I’ll hold off publishing some of the comments and simply link to ShinyShiny’s reponse article, but the posts have some of the most scathing blog post comments I’ve seen in a long time (…a week).
I just love this blog’s design. Simple, clean and to the point. And that’s just the font.
It’s run by IT journalist Danny Bradbury. Like me, he believes in the Ronseal approach to blog naming.
Take a look: http://www.itjournalist.com/
“I write one page of masterpiece to ninety one pages of shit. I try to put the shit in the wastebasket.”
Blips aside, Cheng appears to be working wonders by focusing on three strands (or ‘prongs’ if you’re Jemima Kiss). These include new products, subscription models and internal production. It seems to be working – a 33 per cent rise in users from last year to 7.1 million uniques a month.
The nod to new products suggests that the FT.com – like the Telegraph and, more recently the Daily Mirror – could benefit from an internal web development team.
He also shrugs off any threat from Google and their strength in the new, more open marketplace. But I’ve always believed that specialist publishers, including the ‘niche’ business audiences of the FT and WSJ, were relatively safe from the advertising giant. More so than the Mirror or the Sun.
Impressive stuff nonetheless.
“It was direct, concise, beautiful, and engaging all at the same time, and I loved it.”
Man, that’s some map. Take a look at Garrett’s ‘Designing for Content’.