Man Is The Media.
FerroGate is charting the cultural repercussions of new media and technology.
By Martin Ferro-Thomsen.
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Google shares some advice on how to cope in the recession:
“As businesses work to come to terms with the economic slowdown, digital insights and tools can offer you real assistance. [...] In a world of rapid change and much uncertainty, it is vital to build these capabilities. Emerging from the slowdown, the ability to move [...]
For years I’ve been thinking about quantity and quality on the web. There is so much fixation on quantity and anything you can put a number on. Show me the number of visitors to your site, and I’ll tell you who you are.
Seemingly the beauty of numbers is that they promise comparability across languages, industries [...]
A fresh look (only a few hours old) at the future of journalism, from one of the guys who are actively shaping it: Alan Rusbridger, editor-in-chief of The Guardian, on the future of journalism.
“Always look to see what the technology journalists are doing. Because that’s how we’re all going to be working in five year’s [...]
I detest spam email as much as the next guy. Last year alone I manually sent thousands of mainly work related emails and probably read ten times as many as that. So it goes without saying that I spend a fair amount of time hanging out in my Inbox. I consider spam a fact of [...]
For quite some time I’ve been wanting to create a more professional appearence and workflow for FerroGate, and ultimately it meant giving up on Blogger as a platform. Below is a lengthy post about the whys and the hows. The result is the new WordPress based FerroGate you’re looking at (subscribers please click through to [...]
Take a look at what the smart people at Bantam Dell / Random House are doing. While publishers looking to go digital continue to look for the best online service, Bantam Dell are using all of them: PDF download, Issuu, Scribd, Kindle, Sony Reader, Fictionwise and Stanza.
“New Catastrophically Huge Sunday Edition.”
This poster ad is the accomplishment of a major Danish newspaper; I’ve translated the heading as best I could. It depicts a devastated forest scenery, the publication in question, and a red splash advertising a dirty cheap trial subscription.
I’m sure you can imagine the marketing execs brainstorming for ideas, wanting to [...]
Check this out. It’s from Develop Magazine’s latest email newsletter. It’s mentioned in the list of benefits to potential advertisers. It’s a great story to tell advertisers, and one that more magazines and newspapers should remember to tell.
My favorite part of the story is that while the print run must be a major entry on [...]
I was asked to talk a bit about Issuu by Zine Arcade, who really liked the possibilities to publish online. Here are a few bits of it (the least promoting parts):
Issuu is the ideal platform for the zine community. I myself have been very inspired by the old b/w DIY culture, and that movement is [...]
How Many Reporters Does It Take To Unscrew A Lightbulb?
I don’t have the exact answer to this question, but as I argue below looking at just some of the trouble in today’s newspaper industry, the answer is probably ‘Too many, and too well paid’.
Steve Rubel had an interesting post yesterday, stating that the newspaper reporter [...]
For publishers interested in tips to how to get started with a digital publishing strategy, I wrote a very hands-on post on the Issuu blog. It has a lot of examples and cases, which hopefully can inspire anyone wanting to take a crack at getting their publications (excerpts, promotional/free publications and marketing material/catalogs) online and [...]
The database and portal for European culture is back online. I mentioned them a while ago as an EU alternative to mainly US-based information aggregation services (such as Google and Wikipedia). When they first launched they crashed due to overwhelming traffic.
Have a look. I tried searching for famous wild painter Karel Appel (he’s Dutch) and [...]
