Does Long-Form Stand a Chance?
I love news analysis that frames itself in the terms of a question. Those kindly authors make it all the easier to, if not poach content, enter into the conversation. Michael Learmonth, writing for...
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Surfing productivity
Productivity for me comes and goes in waves. Looking back I can never identify where the wave exactly began but I can always tell when I was surfing it a few days later. At that point I wonder how...
View ArticleYour Time Is Expensive
I had breakfast with a management consultant Friday morning. He had an enormous crab omelet and passed on some wisdom from management consultants past.“Your time is expensive,” he said. I savored a...
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Parse.ly Data: Sandy elevates government officials, sidelines Romney
by Jason BellHalloween Is Cancelled:At 8:30 p.m. Monday night, Hurricane Sandy was starting to get scary. Windows were rattling, rain was flying sideways, and my friends from Florida were fondly...
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Whatever It Takes
How the Parse.ly team didn’t let implementation obstacles get in the way of delivering elegant, beautiful, and timely data digests to our customers via e-mail.I frequently say that Parse.ly is lucky to...
View ArticleAwkward Media: Reports of My Death Are Greatly Exaggerated
In a strange twist of fate, The Wall Street Journal has launched two digital products, The Accelerators and Startup Journal, which will focus on entrepreneurs and startups [via The Next Web]. According...
View ArticleBest Practices for Digital Democracy
Digital democracy is not a utopia. It is merely a more perfect organization of citizens within the field of new media. In its first meaning, digital democracy references the actual practice of...
View ArticleWhy E-Book Subscriptions Are The Future
In the eighteenth-century, printing was incredibly expensive. Laying out individual pages was a labor-intensive process, and the material cost of paper itself was prohibitively high. Publishing...
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What Happened at Mashable Media Summit?
Many lessons learned at the Mashable Media Summit. We learned the rules for 2013 (mobile first, social first, be visual, and ads are content too) and there were plenty of thought leaders on stage...
View ArticleA Short and Sentimental Note About Why It's Time To Move On From Print
Maybe I’m feeling sentimental because I just watched an episode of Entourage called “The End,” but it breaks my heart to open “Media Gazer” and see a page of negative headlines. “2 major lessons from...
View ArticleDigital Publishing Netherworld No More
In an article for Crain’s published December 10th, Matthew Flamm highlights the 195 print titles launched in 2012. According to Flamm, “there were also 24 print titles, most notably Newsweek and Spin,...
View Article50 Years from a Birmingham Jail, The Justice of Internet Freedom
Before January 21st was the inauguration of Barack Obama, it was Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. But yesterday’s celebration of our first black president and of a civil rights martyr is more than simple...
View ArticleReading for Pleasure
The first half of my life I read for pleasure every day. I came home, curled up in the beanbag chair next to my bookshelf, and read for an hour or three. Although I played sports, did homework, and...
View ArticleThe Super Bowl and Social Media Advertising
Super Bowl XLVII had a tough team to beat. Its predecessor, XLVI, captivated 111.3 million Americans with a rating of 47.8—meaning 47.8 percent of households watching television that night tuned in....
View ArticleReading Virtual Books for Endless Afternoons
Warren Zevon’s continued exclusion from the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is a travesty. I wouldn’t throw that word around carelessly. If you’ve never sat down and really listened to a Warren Zevon...
View ArticleFear and Loathing Before the Paywall
Do we need a digital “New Journalism”—a revolution in how reporters tell stories, an infusion of “voice” and “personality” a la Tom Wolfe, Truman Capote, and Hunter S. Thompson?Frédéric Filloux and...
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How Parse.ly & Dash Got Their Names
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View ArticleUnlimited Rides, Subscriptions, and "The Meter"
When Andrew Sullivan took back his political blog, “The Daily Dish,” from the Daily Beast, he started an independent company. Instead of relying on advertising, “The Dish” would cover hosting costs and...
View ArticleFeeling Like Big Data
What does it feel like to be big data?Answering that question requires a similar approach to its distant relatives, stuff of the species “what does it feel like to be a dog,” or, “what does it feel...
View ArticleBKLYNR Is A Great Vintage In Virtual Bottles
If you write about new media and haven’t heard of BKLYNR, you might want to start revising next week’s column about paywalls and ad revenue. The brainchild of Thomas Rhiel, Raphael Pope-Sussman, and...
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