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02 MAR 10
How Hard Could It Be? By Joel Spolsky: Let's Take This Offline SAVE
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Kevin: An excellent post by Joel Spolsky about blogging at businesses. He talks about one of the biggest mistakes that businesses make when they blog, which is talking solely about their business. Instead of blogging about the minutiae of your business, he suggests that you follow the advice of Kathy Sierra. "To really work, Sierra observed, an entrepreneur's blog has to be about something bigger than his or her company and his or her product. This sounds simple, but it isn't. It takes real discipline to not talk about yourself and your company."TAGS
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17 FEB 10
Jeff Israely: Lessons learned in Year 1 of a magazine correspondent’s (would-be) online news startup » Nieman Journalism Lab SAVE
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Kevin: "Jeff Israely, a Time magazine foreign correspondent in Europe, is in the planning stages of a news startup — a "new global news website." He lists lessons that he's learning. "Plan 'A' will not work". I've spoken to a lot of entrepreneurs, and one thing that is clear is that plans evolve. He suggests holding on to your day job, if for no other reason to stay on top of news (assuming your startup is news focused). Some good points.TAGS
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23 NOV 09
Announcing my new startup: Plato’s Forms (+ funding, yay!) | :Ben Metcalfe Blog SAVE
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Kevin: Ben Metcalfe (a friend of ours) has launched a new venture called Plato's Forms. Ben lays out the problem: "Well, the problem space we are addressing is the perpetuation of of miss-information and inaccurate information within the online news environment. " This is coming from a PR/product perspective rather than a news and information perspective.
I think about this from a slightly different perspective. It's pretty easy for inaccurate information to perpetuate through the news system (there is increasingly less distance between online and print). We often quote other sources (according to the AP, BBC, Reuters.) At any rate, interesting project with concepts that have other application.TAGS
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03 NOV 09
Old newshounds hunt for digital future | Crain's Chicago Business SAVE
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Kevin: Chicago is turning into a very interesting laboratory for new news models. The Chicago News Co-operative and reconstituted ChiTown Daily are pursuing different models. ChiTown Daily tried to pursue grant-based online model and has switched to a print tabloid focusing on 'City Hall', Chicago city politics. Both the ChiTown Daily and the Chicago News Co-operative will be focusing on City Hall "and and other big institutions that dominate civic life in Chicago".
I am sure that they can find some success, but unless they connect with readers beyond these institutions (which they seem to have a plan to do), I can't see them being anything but niche players.TAGS
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30 SEP 09
Serra Blog » Blog Archive » Journalists finding success as entrepreneurs SAVE
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Kevin: What does it take to be a journalism entrepreneur? They should be great a research and networking, which should be skills that most journalists have, but Serra Media also suggests journalists finding success as entreprenuers "Can work cheap: Bootstrapping a company is a lot like journalism since it often means working for peanuts to pursue your calling." While I agree that's probably the reality, I might also suggest that journalists reeling from the recession probably don't want to hear this and don't want to work for cheap.TAGS
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25 SEP 09
HOW TO: Launch Your Own Indie Journalism Site SAVE
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Kevin: Maria Schneider left mainstream publishing behind last year to start Editor Unleashed, a site covering writing, publishing and social media. She looks at five journalists and their start-up projects. She talks about costs, advertising and technology. It's a good brief overview.TAGS
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30 JUL 09
Can Citizen Photo Agency Demotix Succeed Where Scoopt Failed? SAVE
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Kevin: Mark Glaser writes: "Recently, the "citizen photo agency" Demotix has had reason to celebrate. The site gained fame by selling front-page photos to the New York Times taken by Iranians who captured shots of protests after the disputed presidential election in Iran. Then came another seminal moment when the site got the only shot of Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. in handcuffs when he was arrested. That photo was featured on CNN, CBS and NBC and in the Washington Post, Boston Globe and other papers, bringing in more than $4,000 for Demotix and the photographer, William B. Carter.
But the money-losing startup, which launched last year, still has a long way to go to prove that a citizen photo agency is a viable business."TAGS
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26 JUL 09
The Printed Blog's End Speaks to Difficulty of Landing Venture Capital Funding SAVE
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Kevin: Josh Karp, founder of The Printed Blog, provides this excellent advice about starting a business, content or otherwise: "It's really important to strike a balance between product development, or available functions, and revenue generation. You want to develop the smallest amount of functionality you need to generate the maximum amount of initial revenue. We focused too much on the product, and not enough on proving that we could make money, and that was a big part of our downfall."TAGS