Content & Curation: An Epic Poem

If you follow the discussion about content strategy and new-school publishing, you’ve probably seen at least a piece of the “content curation” tussle that’s been heating up on the web. Here’s the 30-second version: NEWSPAPERS: “The youngs say they’re curating things, even though they do not work in museums.” SOCIAL MEDIA/CONTENT MARKETING PEOPLE: “Content curation [...]

Cocktail Hour: 5 at 5pm

Every Friday around 5pm, I link to five content-related articles that inspired, surprised, and delighted me during the week. Then we drink. “Themes For A Good Infographic” Eoin Purcell, “E-books are a Cul-de-sac” Tim Meaney, “The Future of the Story” Jonah Lehrer, “Attention and Intelligence” Dave Currey, “How to Survive Geolocation’s Looming Apocalypse” Bonus: “One [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Content Strategy Is About Publishing

In a couple of weeks, I’m going to be on a panel called “New Publishing and Web Content” at SXSW Interactive, and I’ve been thinking even more than usual about publishing and the anxieties surrounding its supposed demise. When people talk about the imminent death of publishing, they’re usually talking about something narrow, specific, and [...]

In Defense of the CMS

A couple of weeks ago, an article on The CMS Myth called “Stop Letting People Use Your CMS” made the rounds on Twitter and content-related blogs. The author’s frustration clearly resonated with a lot of people who wrangle content, and some of his points are great: I can’t tell you how many times we’ve seen [...]

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