Category Archives: Digital publishing

A day at the Newseum

By all rights I should be writing part 2 of the search gospel but instead this week finds me in Washington DC filming and editing videos for one of my brands. I’ve already shot and chopped 5 interviews in the … Continue reading

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Bye bye rel=author – Google removes authorship

So it’s been a while since I’ve written here. Not that there haven’t been things to write about but August was an incredibly busy month for me. Many many projects and not enough hours in the work day. But I … Continue reading

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Fast, Good, Cheap – Pick two

On days like today I like to look at Venn diagrams for the eternal Fast/Good/Cheap paradox. And then I cry.

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News Rewired July 2014 – Storify collections

Every News Rewired I tweet like a crazy person and forget to make notes. So Storify is a wonderful tool for me to keep track of things that were said. Here are my Storify-ed, tweet-ed notes from yesterday: Trinity Mirror … Continue reading

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Newsroom 3.1, #bbcgofigure, some truly scary Facebook facts and the value of Flappy Bird – things I learned at #NewsRW

So I spent today at the News Rewired conference in the Microsoft building at Victoria. As ever there were loads of nifty bits of data to plough through, the usual bread-based lunch, a goody bag with jelly beans (eaten by … Continue reading

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Page Rank Vs Domain Authority Vs Content Marketing Vs who knows what else

Everytime I blink things in SEO are called something new. This week I spent some time on the phone chatting with the agencies I appropriated pens and little tins of sweets from at this year’s Marketing Week Live. I always … Continue reading

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10 (possibly wrong and likely soon to be outdated) tips for email.

So I spent the past three weeks eating Icelandic fish, drinking Nordic beer and not going to bed at a sensible hour because the sun was still up. Initially I did entertain thoughts of updating this blog while on holiday … Continue reading

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Microsoft creates a search comparison site to remind us all that Bing exists

Oh Microsoft. We see what you did there. Everyone sees what you did there. You’re trying so hard, and you know what they say about trying too hard… You tried to make Bing a verb, just like Google, and you … Continue reading

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That link to that old damaging news story about you? You can now make Google take it down

The European Court of Justice has ruled that “An internet search engine operator is responsible for the processing that it carries out of personal data which appear on web pages published by third parties” because, if I’m reading this correctly, … Continue reading

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News reporting after the end of the world

So I’m a big fan of my post apocalypse fiction, especially that which involves zombies. And I work in digital publishing and I’m always reading articles about where the digital newsroom is going next. So really it’s amazing to me … Continue reading

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