As argued in“Online news: bloggers v newspapers”, we are entering a new era where the bundle of stories represented by current magazines and newspapers is being torn apart and being replaced by smaller publications and individual journalists/ writers blogging out there on the web.
Posted under Unanswerable questions, Wait for release 2.0
This post was written by @Drivelry on April 6, 2010
The next information wave
It’s easy to hate the most over-used phrases used to describe the web age – paradigm shift, knowledge revolution, Web 2.0 etc.
But hey we’ve all faced the tyranny of an empty page – it’s tough out there. And faced with amazing changes to how we locate information represented by Google and the other search engines it’s easy to reach for the bottle of superlatives.
Posted under Kewl
This post was written by @Drivelry on February 22, 2010
With the aid of the public domain Calibre e-book management application, which enables you to automatically subscribe to any news website (via RSS) and the increasing prevalence of the open (non DRM) EPUB electronic book formats that you can dump Adobe Acrobat PDFs to, you may find that books are the last thing you read on your e-book. Let’s face it, paperbacks are easily available. Where e-books really come into their own (assuming you’ve installed Calibre) is in pulling down content from the web (and making it comfortable to read anywhere without a computer), content you normally cannot get in hardcopy unless you want to run your laser printer overtime. Documents and news content like:
Posted under Reviews
This post was written by @Drivelry on January 28, 2010
Amidst the turmoil in the newspaper publishing market there is one big problem for journalists leaving the safe-ish harbour of their big name publications and starting to experiment out on their own (if you are still wondering why you should be doing this read this as to why your safe harbour aint safe).
Posted under Reviews
This post was written by @Drivelry on January 17, 2010
If you are a blogger just starting out, there is a bright shiny world of poor blogging advice to be discovered. It covers the full spectrum:
Posted under Hate pets
This post was written by @Drivelry on August 5, 2009
A year ago I wrote an article titled ‘why write another blog‘ (the emphasis being on another if you take a look at the numbers of blogs out there) when I started Drivelry.com.
Now that I know most things there are to know about blogging I thought it was important to give something back to the community.
Posted under Hate pets
This post was written by @Drivelry on July 7, 2009
An interesting article from Danny Sullivan at SearchEngineLand this week on tracking traffic into his website via Twitter.
In a nutshell (and he’d probably be horrified to see it oversimplified like this) he was pointing out that for one of his articles only about a sixth of the traffic it actually got from Twitter showed up in Google Analytics.
Posted under Unanswerable questions
This post was written by @Drivelry on June 26, 2009