Category Archives: online publishing

Rebooting Web Publishing Design

December 19, 2010 – 6:47 pm

TweetLet’s start by reviewing the basic ingredients of a successful online publishing operation: 1 / Quick load. 2 / Ease of operation and update 3 / Consistent visual identity 4 / Platform independence 5 / Open to the rest of the web 6 / Geared for transactions 7 / CRM and marketing-friendly Why am I [...]

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Key Success Factors for a tablet-only “paper”

November 29, 2010 – 12:16 am

TweetCan it fly? Last week, Rupert Murdoch announced he was plotting a tablet-only newspaper. Or rather, an iPad-only paper — at first; other tablets would follow. The Daily, as it is to be called (how modest and innovative) is to be blessed by Steve Jobs Himself at a media event introducing the new venture. Initially, [...]

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Ebooks Winners & Losers

November 14, 2010 – 11:36 pm

TweetLet’s come back to the ebook with more questions. There is no doubt: the digital book will find its place under the sun; its prospects look much better than those of the online press. In the first place, there isn’t an ingrained, now decade-old, habit of reading news for free on the internet. Second, the [...]

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ebooks: trading digital rights, not files

November 8, 2010 – 12:41 am

TweetThere are many reasons to be bullish for ebooks. On the device side, the iPad set the standard (rather high) and triggered an intense competition among manufacturers and operating systems providers. On the people side, just take New York’s subway, or a high-speed train in Europe. And we’ve seen nothing yet: tablets prices will go [...]

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Expanding Into New Territories

October 24, 2010 – 9:34 pm

TweetIn defining business strategies for modern medias such as online newspapers, the most difficult part is finding the right combination of revenue streams. Advertising, pay-per-view, flat fee… All are part of the new spectrum media companies now have to deal with. The gamut looks like this: As we can see, newspapers mostly consist of one [...]

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Aggregators: the good ones vs. the looters

September 19, 2010 – 6:58 pm

TweetNews aggregators have grown into all shapes and forms. Some are truly helping the producers of original content but others simply amount to mere electronic ransack. My daily media routine starts on Techmeme. It is a pure aggregator — actually an aggrefilter, as coined by Dan Farber, at the time editor-in-chief of Cnet, who recommended [...]

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A Toolkit for the Cognitive Container

August 29, 2010 – 4:15 pm

TweetWe now live in an apps world. “The web is dead” shouts Chris Anderson, Wired’s editor-in-chief. To make his point, he teamed up with Michael Wolff, a Vanity Fair writer. According his latest theory, the internet is taken over by mobile applications, and the web as we know it, will be soon dead. Wired produces [...]

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The Facebook Gravitational Effect

August 2, 2010 – 7:16 am

TweetOver the next twelve months, the media industry is likely to be split between those who master the Facebook system and those who don’t. A decade or so  ago, for a print publication, going on the internet was seen as the best way to rejuvenate its audience; today, as web news audiences reach a plateau, [...]

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Zero tolerance for latency

July 18, 2010 – 6:47 pm

TweetThe big battle of the coming years will be a battle for time. For media related software or for web design, the fight will be for customers’ or readers’ attention, the challenge will be to prevent them from fleeing elsewhere and to give them more in less time. More than ever, we are in the [...]

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Profitable Long Form Journalism

May 9, 2010 – 7:26 pm

TweetOver the last month, I’ve been stuffing my iPad with books purchased online, long PDF files and other documents for later reading sessions. I’m waiting for the mind-blowing media applications, they’re still in the making. Several prototypes of French newspapers I have seen are quite promising. We have to be patient. This is just the [...]

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