April’s most popular links: making local work, late-night dumps, innovation quick, slow descents, and daily papers vs. weeklies
These are the links from my reading list that got the most clicks in April (along with any notes I wrote on the link, or sometimes a quote from the linked article):
- Turns out it’s tough to make local work on the Web: “Whoever can get this thing right—there’s a lot of money there,” says Josh Grotstein, co-founder of venture capital firm SAS Investors.
- New Technique Lets Bloggers Tackle Late-Night News Dumps: “A time-honored Washington practice of trying to extinguish, pre-empt, or redirect news coverage by dumping stacks of previously secret government documents on the press may be in for some changes after a headlong collision with hundreds of liberal Web loggers in the wee hours of yesterday morning.”
- 5 Quick Tips for Making Online Innovation Happen: “1. Think Small 2. Think Storytelling 3. Think Experiments 4. Think Collaboration 5. Think Workflow”
- Radical advice: A slow descent into multimedia convergence won’t work: “In OnlineSpin today, Dave Morgan, chairman of behavioral targeting advertising network Tacoda, wonders which major metropolitan US newspaper will be the first to “truly and dramatically change its business model.””
- So Much Attention Has Been Paid To The Problems of Daily Newspapers That The Success Of Weeklies Has Been Forgotten – But Not By The Smart Money : “For all the doom and gloom told time and time again about US newspapers, there is one sector that is actually doing very nicely, thank you very much. How about 6-10% revenue growth in 2006 and profit margins holding steady. No wonder it is the weeklies that are getting the attention of the smart money.”
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