Reading isn’t just viewing content in reverse chronological order.
Daniel Bachhuber – Status.
Tag: publishing
Reading isn’t just viewing content in reverse chronological order
The Year of Wonders. Alex Shakar writes a beautiful story about his first major book deal. Sometimes not everything works out as planned. (via Kottke)
Sum Up: NY Times’ Bill Keller is an Expert on Twitter, Doesn’t Use It
I’ve heard this kind of thing a lot from traditional journalists. The idea of sharing online is truly foreign to them. Anything they say in public could be heard by the competitors! It’s at once egotistical “everything I think is so valuable I have to hoard it” and dismissive of everyone else “therefore all those people on the net sharing their thoughts must be worthless”.
The inability to see social media as anything other than a place to mine for traffic is at the core of why the traditional media doesn’t get the net, and why the net is going to replace them.
Derek Powazek – Sum Up: NY Times’ Bill Keller is an Expert on Twitter, Doesn’t Use It.
Evan Williams on blogging
But that made sense to me because it was not that the technology was new, it was that we had figured out this medium, at least one of the native forms of what the Web was good for. It was about freshness and about frequency, and it was about the democratization of media and giving power to everybody and the universal desire for personal expression and the attraction to a real, compelling personal voice.
Evan Williams – Founders at Work
Beginning. Shawn Blanc is turning his site into a full-time gig. A $3 monthly membership fee is part of how he’ll make the financial side of things work.
Status
Just helped fund The Manual on Kickstarter. Sounds like a great project to produce a high-quality print magazine about design on the web.
!@$#ing for a living
!@$#ing for a living. What if we had a publishing platform that cost $10 per month and allowed users to distribute half of that money among their favorite 20 bloggers? Sounds like a pretty cool idea and a win all the way around.
37signals on doing it “wrong”
All the “wrong” things 37signals did with Rework. Matt from 37signals writes about all the things they did “wrong” with Rework. Like usual, none of it affected things negatively as the book was a tremendous success.
Scott Berkun on information overload
Scott Berkun theorizes about information overload:
There is a notion the world is polluted with information. And that reckless publishing or creation is bad. This might be true, but that ship has sailed. We won’t be eliminating information from the world. Therefore:
Hypothesis: It doesn’t make the world any worse to add more information to it, since we can’t be/feel more overloaded than we already do.
That’s why everyone deserves the digital equivalent of a printing press. The more information the better, what I’m overloaded with someone else will cherish.