Martin Belam
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Information architecture and the falling price of digital disruption
The cost of disrupting an established business has dropped considerably. But how do you defend yourself against endless disruption? Information architecture could be the answer, argues Martin Belam.
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Guardian & Observer NUJ debate on the nature and future of journalism
This evening at the Guardian’s offices the Guardian & Observer Chapel of the NUJ have been holding a debate about the nature and future of journalism. There have been posters around the offices for a couple of days.
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Improve your blogging course
As well as my day-long training course teaching how to self-publish with Kindle, I’ll also be running an evening training course in June, on “Improving your blogging”.
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Google Currents - a system for publishers, not journalists
I always like to play around with new toys, and so as soon as the Google Currents production system was released to the public, I set about making an edition for myself.
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Kindle ebook publishing training course in London
Yesterday journalism. co. uk announced one of my first post-Guardian ventures - a one day training course in ebook publishing: “Kindle publishing: How to get into the ebook market”.
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The Premier League finale brought out Twitter’s churlish side
It was a really lovely sunny weekend, and so on Sunday I went out for a weekend stroll around Hyde Park. I noticed lots of people had set up picnics and were eating outside in the sunshine. They all seemed to be enjoying it, and chatting about how much they were enjoying it, and how amazing it all was.
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Metro comes out fighting for photographers’ rights
I was genuinely impressed this morning with the Metro’s double-page spread about photographers’ rights. I love to see papers campaigning on issues of civil liberties and freedom, and I was particularly impressed with the fact that Metro produced a simple layman’s terms explanation of photographers rights in a cut-out-and-keep format.
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Friday reading #2
The second of a weekly round-up of links and reading material I’ve foraged for on the interwebs over the last seven days. It is an experiment at the moment, so please let me know if you find it useful. . .
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“Do you want your internet to work? Yes/No”
There was an interesting post on the eConsultancy blog from Graham Charlton yesterday about the forthcoming changes that mean websites are being obliged to obtain consent for the use of cookies.
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The ups and down of Facebook Social Reader traffic
There has been quite some hoo-ha on the web suggesting that Facebook “Social Reader” apps are dying, based on a piece written by BuzzFeed’s John Herrman - “Facebook social readers are all collapsing”.
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What are the “cheat codes” for the news industry?
You’ve probably the missed the recent incredible rise of Dagenham & Redbridge from the obscurity of League Two to competing in the Champions League, but that is no surprise, since it has been confined to my iPad. But it has made me think of an interesting problem for the news industry.
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