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What didn’t work: newspapers
What I’m listening to while I type: Sea Sew I’m not saying that newspapers are dead: individual newspapers will continue as businesses as long as the ratio between cost and revenue makes sense for the...
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What didn’t (and sometimes did) work. Part 3: publicity
What I’m listening to while I type: Return of the Grievous Angel: Number three on my list of five things that make web-tech start-up success more likely is ‘Twitter chatter isn’t enough, good press...
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What didn’t work: Sweeble
What I’m listening to as I type this: Dead & Born & Grown I’ve been putting off writing this post for half a year. Tying my tooth to a slamming door would hurt less. This post is me saying,...
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What didn’t work (but could): newspapers
What I’m listening to while I type: Songs from the Shipyards A little while back, I wrote about newspapers’ failing business model and its dependency on advertisers: The issue is that the cost of...
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What usually works: storytelling
What I’m listening to as I type this: Thirteen Tales From Urban Bohemia I was watching a bunch of my students pitching their ideas for new web businesses, and found myself thinking about the Great...
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What will work – journalism’s future
What I’m listening to as I type: Wounded Rhymes Twice a year I give a lecture to journalism students on where I think journalism is going. For obvious reasons, I rewrite the lecture each time I deliver...
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What did (and didn’t) work in app launching – London Cyclist
What I’m listening to as I type: Days Are Gone Way, way back when both me and the web were younger and altogether more excited about each other, I believed the internet would deliver The Dream Job....
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What works – STR Skill School and YouTubing
What I’m listening to as I type: Mojave There’s a lot of guff and puff being written about YouTubers at the moment. If you took in much of the stuff in the media this year you’d think top Youtubers...
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What will partly work – robots and journalism
What I’m listening to as I type: The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars (30th Anniversary 2CD Edition) Among the umpteen things robots struggle to do are climb stairs and show...
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What isn’t working – Sweeble and Bubblews
What I’m listening to as I type:Nebraska So, this is where the story starts. I get this email from a bloke called Mike asking if I’m interested in selling my sweeble.com domain to a client he’s got....
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What is working: Lasting Lives and Sweeble
What I’m listening to as I type: American V – A Hundred Highways Ted is dead. As is Rex and Ian and, by the time you read this, perhaps Dorothy or Kath or Eunice. I was sitting in a half-empty pub in...
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What has to work: journalism by journalists
What I’m listening to as I type: Quixotic My grandson will sometimes tell me: “I’m sad, nana.” That he says this is in itself a pretty joyful thing because he has autism, and for him to recognise and...
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What isn’t working: Brexit press
I’m a bit pissed right now. In both senses of the word. Everything that I type from now on has to be read in that context. Are you ok with that (judging me-wise)? Then I’ll begin. There are a few...
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What might work: AR, VR, and cool stuff at the Washington Post
I’m sitting in Jeremy Gilbert’s Washington DC office, trying not to look like a girl – scratch that – a middle-aged academic, as I bounce clumsily, and a little queasily, around Mars. Gilbert is...
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What might work: Writing a book
What I’m listening to as I type: The Order Of Time I’ve been writing a book. It’s why you haven’t heard from me for a while. The clue was in the previous post (crikey, a whole year ago!) about my trip...
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