Cocktail Hour: 5 at 5pm

Every Friday around 5pm, I’ll be linking to five content-related articles that inspired, surprised, and delighted me during the week. (Then we drink.) Liz Danzico on Obama’s editing Robert Gracey, “Content Transparency: Can You See Me Now?” Tiffani Jones, “Before You Hire a Writer” Jeffrey Zeldman, “Love Me Long Time” Nicole Jones’s rowdy new blog, [...]

Paying For It

Yesterday, I wrote that content is expensive, and that there are really only four ways to subsidize content online: ads, subscriptions, marketing writeoffs, and paid delivery channels. But we’re not really publishers over here in the web content world, so we don’t need to think about this stuff, right? Eh. If you work in web [...]

Content is Expensive

One of the ideas that kept pecking at my brain while I was prepping for our SXSW publishing panel was this: Content isn’t free. If it’s good, it’s very expensive to make. We can subsidize its production and maintenance in any number of ways, but we have to start being honest—with ourselves, our clients, and [...]

SXSW 2010: Being There

This year’s SXSW(i) was by far the largest and most overcrowded that I’ve been to, with the heaviest marketing presence and the largest number of panels I had no interest in attending. It was also the most fun I’ve had in Austin, even though it took me a full week to catch up after returning. [...]

The Plot (Not) To Annoy Eric Meyer

Every year, thousands of people in the web industry attend the SXSW Interactive conference in Austin, and every year, the number of SXSW-specific tweets—way too many quotes from panels, of course, but also “Going to Ginger Man” and “Ballroom A is LIKE UNTO AN ICEBERG”—tend to drown out other discussion in the web-making section of [...]

Visual Content: Beyond Tufte

Visual communication is one of the least frequently explored areas within the content world, possibly because it’s so easy to lump in with UI design, aka Not Our Problem. But many forms of visual communication clearly are content, part of the muscle of a website or other project. In the hands of a skillful communicator, [...]

A Tale of 3 News Apps

I used to read The New York Times online. Granted, the NYT can be weirdly insular, mesmerized by the trappings of wealth, and bad at covering literature, but I like newspapers, I like plenty of the NYT‘s national and international coverage, and I live in New York. Over the last year, I’ve found myself doing [...]

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