Joho the Blog: The front page is dead, but not yet quite reborn

Posted on 1 October, 2007 by Martin Stabe

David Weinberger: "the new front page is distributed across our day and our network. Much of it comes through our inbox. It consists of people we know and people we don't know recommending items for our interest."

Publish2 Blog: Introducing Publish2

Posted on 15 August, 2007 by Martin Stabe

Publish2 is a social network and 2.0 platform for journalists (and independent “news bloggers,” “citizen” journalists, student journalists, i.e. ALL journalists, BROADLY defined), which aims to put journalists at the center of news aggregation on

Journalism.co.uk: WAN chairman welcomes a search engine into the ACAP project – but not the big one he wanted

Posted on 6 August, 2007 by Martin Stabe

Exalead, a French search engine involved in the Quaero project, has joined up with ACAP. Google and Yahoo are no doubt trembling.

Publishing 2.0: Online Publishers Need To Stop Selling Space

Posted on 28 July, 2007 by Martin Stabe

"Advertising in traditional media, whether newspapers, magazines, or TV, is all about selling a scare resource — space. The problem is that on the web there’s a nearly infinite amount of space."

Simon Dickson: WordPress to do ‘proper’ workflow

Posted on 11 July, 2007 by Martin Stabe

"I don’t come across many small-scale websites which couldn’t be done at least as well, or probably better, in WordPress. And now they’re introducing a proper workflow element, the middle market may be up for grabs too."

Lost Remote: Digg, Fark bring traffic – but is it good?

Posted on 8 July, 2007 by Martin Stabe

"The folks surfing in from Digg aren’t likely interested in local advertisers - and actually drag down our pageview to unique user count ... What do you think? Is viral traffic good for building business?"

Publishing 2.0: Newspapers Should Embrace Online Aggregators

Posted on 20 June, 2007 by Martin Stabe

Scott Karp: "The problem that newspapers and other traditional media brands have is that they still see branding as a function of controlling the distribution channel, rather than branding each unit of content that must now live and survive on its own"

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