A look at the success of tech bloggers, new media sites and how the writers of those popular blogs are taking over the world. Great read and a sign that tech is creeping out of its nerdy niche and are influencing mainstream more and more.
Interesting twist. While the website sits there almost forgotten, the writers and editors have been busy behind the scenes working on an eBook that’s for sale on Amazon.
Buy This Book Before You Buy Facebook: A PandoDaily Expert Guide To The Internet’s Biggest IPO
And given that it just launched a couple of days before the IPO, I wouldn’t be surprised if all resources where pulled from actually working on the website and poured into making the eBook happen.
I’ve been calling for Pando to lead the way in finding a new way to monetize content, and I must admit that this is an interesting new approach – kudos. That’s the kind of stuff I wanted to see.
I wonder if the eBook will be a success and lead to more of this kind of content. Pando could essentially become a publishing house rather than just a news blog. Or if the eBook was just a one-of project, trying to cash in on the Facebook IPO media hype and now that it’s over, almost, resources can be reallocated to actually developing PandoDaily as a proper Tech news outlet. Especially in the light of the recent rumors, it has some competition again.
Brandon Rosage addresses how technology and news creation intersect and what Ushahidi does to address this at the International Media Council in Madrid a couple of weeks ago.
The public can be part of the news-making process.
Sort of. Pre-private beta if you will. That’s called: We’re creating demand by limiting access.
Love their logo… pop!
This is probably the real reason on why PandoDaily dropped Arrington from their board of investors. Not the Meebo Bar.
Arrington in this own words on Techcrunch:
…the point is that I’m back. At least for a few days in New York. Current TechCrunch chief Eric Eldon has graciously asked that MG Siegler and I be a part of the event, and we’re very happy to accept. Eldon even granted me posting privileges on TechCrunch so I could tell you myself.
I do like the Techcrunch site design. In fact, I love the green and black logo bar.
I wonder what Jason would say about all of this. That is, if his lawyers would let him.
Seattle’s Cornish College of The Arts says Daisey won’t be the commencement speaker at the school’s graduation as previously planned.
The school released a statement announcing it will not award Daisey with an honorary degree to the prestigious arts college.
Trixy went to Cornish. Glad they taking a stand.
Unbelievably amazing.
The NYT has an article about the success of Angry Birds and the phenomena of the ‘simple games’ like Tetris. And in an incredible cool surprise, you can play a game on the page and yes, shoot every element on the site… amazing.
Oh yeah, the article is worth reading too…
XI is a new print and electronic soccer magazine for North America. Fantastic Kickstarter project.
Hope they have a great iOS app. I’ll be ordering the electronic subscription right away.
Local blogger Mr. Anonymous counts his numbers and draws some comparisons:
Lately we’re averaging around 120 page views per day. The all-time high is 260 page views per day. The most popular individual postings generate between 150 and 100 page views.
As a point of comparison, a small-circulation local publication will distribute 2,000 to 6,000 copies per issue. Not all pages will be equally read, but that’s nevertheless a much larger readership base.
How can you compare the total numbers of distributed copies with total numbers of actual page views.
That does not make sense in anyway . How can you compare actual page views, which is a minimum of people that have gotten associated with your publication, with the absolute maximum reach a paper has?
With this thinking, no wonder online advertising rates are still a fraction and online writers receive a much smaller paycheck compared to ‘real journalists’ having their words printed in ink on dead trees.
Update:
Here is my comment on his blog:
If’ve been selling online advertising and making the case for the effectiveness of online media for years. Comparing actual page views to maximum printed! not even distributed physical copies is a false connection.
What’s the percentage of copies printed that are actually distributed?
What’s the percentage of distributed copies that are actually picked up and opened up, what’s the percentage of those that actually read the articles? And most important, of those people, what’s the percentage that look at the ads.
No media outlet that’s selling ads has been honest about those numbers for years. Nielsen ratings anyone.
Trevor en route to Seattle:
For Seattle — as with all of the cities I’ll go to this year — I’ll be writing about startups, key people, the ecosystem at large, how the city government helps or hurts the community, etc. The list goes on and on.
Hey Trevor, wanna come to Olympia for the day?
Jenni Hogan gets her own show:
“Connect” is an experiment from KIRO 7 Seattle to blend traditional television news with online live-stream broadcasts and social media.
Great for Television, but a bummer, cause as it seems her web project Mission Hot Mama went from ‘re-positioning’ to completely folding.
MG Siegler turns Oatmeal’s comic from a couple of weeks ago into a tech blog post bemoaning the inability to access HBO’s content vault.
That’s good for Pando’s SEO, right?
On my other blog Everyday Olympia I just celebrated 4 years of blogging, and last year’s milestone of one thousand posts in a year.
I’m not the only one who takes offense on PandoDaily’s liberty of calling for excellence for startups while creating bottom-of-the-barrel journalism.
When you started Pando Daily I had hopes that you would have high standards. Instead, so early in the development of your brand you sent your “entry level kid” (your words, not mine) to our great city and then praised his work that laid bare to even the most casual observer how little insight he seems to have gained during his fourteen days in our city.
Time to take some lessons from Arianna?
And then there is that Meebo bar...
Marco doesn’t like the Curator’s Code:
First of all, readers aren’t going to learn what those symbols mean. The distinction between them is also unnecessary and will lead to more confusion: I’ve been running a hybrid articles-and-links blog here (↬DF) for a while, I wrote the function that added “via” links to billions of reblogged posts on Tumblr, and I didn’t even know the difference between “via” and “hat tip” until today.
Are we just sharing or are we curating?
My thoughts on this are that journalists often/always have been sharing/curating and yes, stealing content. My local newspapers have been taking content, inspirations from various sources, hardly ever attributing them. No one has been calling them out, because they are “the authority”. Only now, in the age of the ever-linkable internet, stories have become more findable and journalists are not getting paid comfy salaries for their work anymore this seems to be becoming a problem. So naturally the need to protect their source and work is one of the problems they are trying to solve.
This is one way to try to bring clarity into this mess, regulate it and create some sense. The other is to move advertising from a page-view model to a “pay-per-influence’ model. The source that influence will rise to the top, hopefully.
Pretty impressive website the Curator’s Code has, I must say. Tina is supporting the idea and the bookmarklet is a great implementation.
Not full responsive, but he beats me to the punch nonetheless. Dang, it looks good.
Worldcrunch.com translates news articles from all over the world, written in all sorts of languages into English… wow.
London 2012 Olympic volunteers have been banned from posting updates and photos to Twitter, Facebook and other social networks.
While at the same time:
London is set to roll out a massive Wi-Fi network as it prepares to host the 2012 Olympic Games. The best part? It’s absolutely free to use.
It’ll be fascinating to watch as the internet continues to transform those long-standing traditional global events and the way they are broadcast and reported on.
Incredible time to live in.
Revision 3 pumps out a new show: Toast Donut. From the mouth of Hippy Glen.
I am rooting for shows like these, I love online video, but this one hasn’t stuck with me quite yet.