No Publication Without Compensation?
Last week, Nate Thayer’s rant about an editor’s request for free work sparked a global debate about the compensation of writing. Nate Thayer was contacted by an Atlantic editor asking him to repurpose...
View Article“Read Later” Buttons and Overflowing Buckets
As Google Reader is going to disappear into the sunset, I started thinking about my inboxes and the pressure I feel to empty them. “Read Later”, “Watch Later”, and other such buttons each create a new...
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Content ROT’s like Moss and Weeds
Moss and weeds grew slowly. So slowly that I didn’t notice their presence until they had taken over the entire terrace, in fact. When I did find out, the entire situation became something of a shame....
View ArticleMettre en avant les auteurs
Alors que la majorité des plateformes permettent à plusieurs utilisateurs de travailler sur un même blog, on voit toujours des blogs qui on un nom d’utilisateur commun à toute leur équipe de rédacteur...
View ArticleContent Strategy Reading List
Joe Gollner’s Content Strategy and the Web Matrix paints a picture of content strategists as cultural heroes — comparing them to Matrix’ Neo — and more importantly as facilitators for the other...
View ArticleBoutons d’arrêt d’urgence pour les campagnes de médias sociaux
Les tweets pré-programmés publiés juste après l’attentat de Boston ont été la cible de mouvements de colère. Cela me pousse à me demander s’il ne faudrait pas un bouton d’arrêt d’urgence pour les...
View ArticleQuelques questions à se poser au delà du choix d’un CMS
Un jour, dans une librairie informatique, une femme s’approche du rayon consacré au web. Hésitante, elle s’approche du libraire et lui dit: «Bonjour, je suis secrétaire dans une petite association et...
View Article« Blake’s Revolution » à Carouge
Le groupe de théâtre « Barbe-à-Papa » de l’Université de Genève dont j’ai eu le plaisir de faire partie jouera la dernière date de sa production anglophone « Blake’s Revolution » le 8 mai à 18h au...
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Distribuer des magazines digitaux sans intermédiaire
On se focalise trop sur les quotidiens et les sites de nouvelles lorsque l’on parle du futur de l’édition. Au delà des problèmes rencontrés par les quotidiens, le numérique offre des possibilités...
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Prêts à payer pour du contenu en ligne?
Cette étude du groupe Gfk dont parlait ZDnet.fr constituait, en 2009, une très mauvaise nouvelle pour les éditeurs de presse francophones. Le cabinet Gfk disait, en substance, que les internautes...
View ArticleShare buttons on pull-quotes
“Pull-quotes make for perfect shareable chunks”. This piece of insight surfaced during the Big Web Show #90. In this episode, Jeffrey Zeldman interviewed Paul Ford, the creator of savepublishing.com...
View ArticleGérer du contenu avec WordPress
Le 29 mai dernier, j’ai eu le plaisir de co-organiser une présentation sur la gestion de contenu avec WordPress dans le cadre du Geneva WordPress Meetup Group. J’ai d’abord présenté quelques bases...
View ArticleLet’s Pretend This Review Never Happened
While reading “Let’s Pretend This Never Happened: (A Mostly True Memoir)” I would take long pauses to laugh and ponder the strangeness of life. When the time to leave for a 3-day trip to Paris came, I...
View ArticleHappy Belated Ada Lovelace Day
I pride myself in being reasonably knowledgeable in the history of sciences (for an English major, I mean). Hence it is a little shameful and revolting not to be able to find a historical figure to...
View ArticleEditorial practices at Aol
Since I am flipping through the Yahoo! Style Guide, these days, I started wondering why Aol’s editorial practices never were the subject of publications. For example, on the Nieman Journalism Lab, we...
View ArticleGuess-work and Offensiveness
We were just the wrong people. Lads’ mags aren’t staffed by lads. They’re staffed by middle-class graduates, some from Oxbridge, struggling wildly to guess what will appeal to a 17-year-old squaddie...
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Plopping a big, fat style guide on a coworker’s desk and saying ‘memorize this and then write me something’ is only going to scare them off. Instead, make style guides available for reference only, and...
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“Blogging with WordPress” meetup
Last Tuesday, I was in a blogging workshop presented by Stephanie Booth. She first covered the basics. Her three main points were: Blogs are ante-chronological websites that don’t necessarily need a...
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In responsive web design, designers like to ensure that browsers do not request unnecessary assets such as background images which might not get displayed. Some techniques are better than others. The...
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Zucchini and diced bacon muffins
Seeing the weather getting better and dreaming of getting in shape, I suggested a Sunday afternoon walk to my parents. Around this time every year we go for ONE walk. Then the guilt of being...
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