Fashion Magazines or Fashion Bloggers: Who’s More Influential Online? Bloggers. Granted it’s the power blogs that consistently take the top spots in our ranking of influential fashion blogs; but using the exact same ranking criteria, bloggers are edging out magazines who (often) have larger staffs and larger budgets when it comes to influencing readers online. Dolce & Gabbanna's 2-year-old front row lineup seems smarter than ever That’s not to say magazines aren’t influencing people online: each of the magazine websites we used for comparison would rank in the top 99 if pitted against the fashion blogs in our list. The Inside Story of How Facebook Responded to Tunisian Hacks - Alexis Madrigal - Technology The social-media site's security team talks to The Atlantic -- revealing key details about a revolution that could become a parable for Internet activism. It was on Christmas Day that Facebook's Chief Security Officer Joe Sullivan first noticed strange things going on in Tunisia. Reports started to trickle in that political-protest pages were being hacked. "We were getting anecdotal reports saying, 'It looks like someone logged into my account and deleted it,'" Sullivan said. For Tunisians, it was another run-in with Ammar, the nickname they've given to the authorities that censor the country's Internet.
5 Things Agencies Can Learn From Music Labels Author: Dan Hauck, ex-BBHer, now Planning Director at Sony Music UK The title might sound a bit presumptuous, but that’s not the intention. Clearly, there are a huge number of things that music labels can learn from agencies, and indeed most labels are only starting to embrace things that have been commonplace in agencies for years. Why should anyone listen to an industry that is in such obvious structural and financial turmoil? Well, partly because that’s exactly why the music industry is starting to embrace change where it once ignored it, happy to let the CD dollars roll in.
Christian Science Monitor Calls First Web-Only Year a Success A year after going to a Web-only format, the Christian Science Monitor is reporting increased Web traffic, unique users, page views and revenue for its weekly edition and daily E-newsletter. But, like most other outlets, online ad revenue is not as high as expected, prompting a buyout and a slight reduction in staff, including the shutdown of two news bureaus. "This was a pretty major change that we went through," says Editor John Yemma. "We made it through the transition, we are on budget and we are growing." The change occurred March 25, 2009, when the newspaper stopped its daily print edition and went to a free Web-only format .
The ePresse Digital Kiosk: First Lessons [correction added about Relay.com's rate] On June 30th, the French consortium ePresse opened its digital kiosk. Six months of hard work for a very small team (the ePresse consortium is a three persons operation: a CTO, a marketing person, and a manager), and still a long way to go. ePresse brought up eight titles: five dailies (Le Figaro, Le Parisien and its national edition, Libération, the sports daily l’Equipe and the business paper Les Echos), and three newsweeklies (L’Express, Le Point, Le Nouvel Observateur). This is only the rocket’s first stage: an iPad/iPhone app allowing per-copy purchases within the App Store; more to come this Fall. Knowing I’m charge of this development, editors and news executives abroad inquired about the experience. Here are a few early observations.
Participation In Real-Time Social Media Increased 20% in 2010 Social media consultancy Trendstream released a report Tuesday that suggests participation in the social web is shifting from a place to create personal content to a place to share professional content in real time. The report is part of an ongoing web study called the Global Web Index, which surveyed a total of 51,000 consumers globally at three points between July 2009 and September 2010. During this time period, the number of people who reported participating in static online conversations decreased. Blog writing declined by 4%, and forum participation decreased by 11%. Participation in real-time social networks and microblogs, however, both grew by 20%. Platforms like Twitter and Tumblr arrived a bit later than social networks like Facebook; although the two groups of real-time social media are growing at a similar rate, social networks still dominate the real-time social web.
Being Steve Jobs’ Boss A great article on how Steve Jobs is a bit different as a CEO at Apple…. and some great pointers for those leaders out there =). “An anecdotal story: A friend of mine was at meetings at Apple and Microsoft on the same day. And this was in the last year, so this was recently. He went into the Apple meeting (he’s a vendor for Apple), and as soon as the designers walked in the room, everyone stopped talking, because the designers are the most respected people in the organization. Everyone knows the designers speak for Steve because they have direct reporting to him.
Twitter Yields Uneven ROI for News Organizations Using Automation, Curation, Interaction Carol Marbin Miller has six long, deep drawers filled with child death cases. “And each one is as bad as the one before it,” she said in a phone interview with Poynter. Since the mid-1990s, Marbin Miller has covered Florida’s … Read more French News Web Site Shakes Up Sarkozy Camp Rue89 already attracts about 1.5 million visitors a month, about one-third as many as the Web site of Le Monde. Generating revenue from advertising and services like Web site design — access to Rue89 is free for readers — the site expects to be profitable by next year, Mr. Haski said. Facebook suicide: None of Simone Back's 1,048 online friends helped her By Daily Mail Reporter Updated: 03:14 GMT, 6 January 2011 Simone Black: Some of her so-called online'friends' sent cruel messages after she posted her goodbye message on Facebook A depressed charity worker killed herself as Facebook users mocked a suicide note she left on the social networking website.
Planning for Participation « Planning in High Heels There are seven words that make my heart sink these days more than any others. No, they’re not “high heels are bad for you: fact”, or “there is no chocolate left for you”, but: “then people can upload their own versions”. Of course they can. But why on earth would they? Chris Anderson: "Who needs newspapers when you have Twitter? " {via @ericscherer } Mr. Anderson, let’s talk about the future of journalism. This is going to be a very annoying interview. I don’t use the word “journalism.” OK , how about newspapers? Financial Times begins moving its blogs behind paywall - Shaping The Financial Times has begun moving its blogs behind a paywall, starting with its popular "Money Supply" blog on Wednesday, according to a blog posted on Reuters.com. Money Supply will be adhering to the financial news site's subscription rules and will fall in line with the majority of FT's content. The blog entries are published on a blog platform with a separate URL, rather than the main newspaper publishing platform which leaves very little scope for the entries to appear in the newspaper search results and eventually little chances of being noticed by its online subscribers as well.This move by the newspaper makes sense "in a kind of tyranny-of-consistency way," Felix Salmon wrote in his Reuters.com blog. "Blogs are a great way for a newspaper to add online value for their print subscribers: they can put nichey content like wonky posts on central banking online, without using up precious newsprint.
4chan founder: Mark Zuckerberg is “totally wrong” about online identity Christopher Poole, the founder of controversial online image board 4chan, outlined his vision for Web-based community today at the South by Southwest Interactive conference — and yes, his ideas are in pretty sharp contrast to those of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. Zuckerberg has spent a lot of time talking about his stance on identity and privacy, especially recently, as Facebook has taken more criticism for its various privacy policies. (To get the flavor of his remarks, check out VentureBeat’s post about Zuckerberg’s privacy stance from last May, as well as David Kirkpatrick’s book The Facebook Effect.) He’s been pretty aggressive ins advocating that users should have a single identity that’s consistent they are online, because that encourages them to be more authentic (and also means they can carry their social connections with them to any site). Poole, who is also known under his 4chan username “moot”, said, “I think that’s totally wrong.”