The value a writer can bring to the publication they work for is being changed by the audience individual writers can create for themselves and how they can move that audience around from publication to publication as their career progresses. On the current trend of streamlining writing teams across the publishing industry I can see [...]
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Portable audiences of advocacy
03Aug10Image by Spencer Tunik People like making and maintaining human connections; they are what make us who we are. The people we form these connections with become acquaintances and friends; you can have a shared experience with these people that make a valuable addition to your life. If you form a connection like this you [...]
I was sent this article at work and also picked up on it again through Twitter, it’s on Pentagram‘s blog. In my opinion one of the points made is wrong because it confuses what audiences want and expect from different types of publications. The point I have a problem with is below. The end of [...]
The web breaks down the barriers put up by location and time to allow discussion and debate anywhere at any time. Disqus is an interesting system because it also removes the barriers put up by different websites and allows commenting on a central hub. It provides users with a very flexible platform on which they [...]
Janis Krums Puts Twitter To Work
16Jan09With Janis Krums having tweeted the first picture of the Hudson crash using his iPhone yesterday the opportunity that citizen journalism offers publishers is clear for everybody to see! This is surely going to be one of the landmark tweets. It was sent from on board the first rescue ferry to come to the aid [...]
