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” … chasing dollars and attention at any cost …”

Om Malik has deep insight into the world of the media and shares his thoughts about the media’s pursuit of attention and revenue, regardless of the cost, in a recent blog post.

Published 2016-12-27
Categorised as Publishing Tagged attention, clicks, media, om malik, publishers, revenue

What is Twitter good for?

Talk to the can

So what is Twitter good for given the relatively low, meaningful engagement? The answer is probably “not much” if Twitter’s value is the extent to which it sends traffic to what you tweet about as opposed to focusing attention on itself.

Published 2016-02-07
Categorised as Blogs and blogging, Social Web Tagged closed ecosystem, content, engagement, links, open web, publishers, twitter, walled gardens

Publishers rediscover the link economy

Publishers are returning to that old link economy model that made the blogosphere what it was but with a new name.

Published 2016-02-04
Categorised as Blogs and blogging, Business and work, Social Web, Writing Tagged audiences, engagement, link economy, publishers, readers

Recent Posts

  • Choosing Signal over WhatsApp is about personal agency 2021-01-14
  • Why I prefer to use Signal, and not WhatsApp 2021-01-10
  • Receiving the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine 2021-01-06
  • My first half marathon 2021-01-05
  • My longest run so far 2020-12-23

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