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Blog postAnother interview. This one is with Lifehacker.com, as part of their series on “How I Work”, in which they ask people about their working routines and try to get them to reveal productivity tips. I was very happy to do this interview because I’ve long been interested in life hacking, but I’m quite sceptical about it; in my experience, reading life-hacking tips is what you do when you are trying to avoid doing any work. As I explain in the interview:
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Blog postEarlier this year I was interviewed by Joseph Lichterman of Nieman Lab about my approach to digital strategy at The Economist. The interview lasted a bit less than an hour, and I said essentially the same things to him that I say to everyone else when I’m asked about this. (Our strategy isn’t secret, in part because we think it would be difficult for anyone else to emulate, because it depends on historical factors that are difficult for other publications to copy.) The difference is
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Blog postTo my great surprise I won a prize at the British Media Awards:
The Pioneer of the Year Award is being given to Tom Standage in recognition of the role he has played in spearheading innovation and building new products at The Economist, expanding the brand while remaining true to its core values. Through developing products such as In Other Words and Economist Espresso, he has challenged the conventional relationship between editorial and commercial teams, and shown how powerfully edi -
Blog postOne of the things I have been grappling with lately is how to develop new digital products within a news organisation: something I’ve been doing for a while, most notably with Espresso last year. I’ve come to the conclusion that this is a particular problem in the news business because of the traditional church-state divide … Continue reading My thoughts on digital editorial product development
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Blog postThe other day I realised that I’m now more likely to express my thoughts publicly in the form of talks and interviews than articles or blog posts. (In long form, at least; short-form thoughts go on Twitter, obviously.) So I might as well post those talks and interviews on this blog. That way it will continue to serve in some way as my outboard brain. I think this approach is perhaps best described as “pseudo-blogging”. On with the pseudo-blog posts!
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Blog postToday a review of “Writing on the Wall” appeared in the New York Times. Which is great, obviously. But almost as exciting (to me, at least) is that the NYT chose to illustrate the review with an image of a Roman wax tablet, taken from the book, and juxtaposed with an image of an iPad. Thus my “Roman iPad” joke, which always gets a laugh when I talk about the book, has reached its largest audience so far.
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Blog post“Writing on the Wall: Social Media — The First 2,000 Years” was published on October 10th in Britain and Commonwealth countries, and on October 15th in the United States. (To buy the book, click the links on the right.) I’m on the road promoting it for two weeks, starting in Seattle and ending up in New York. I talked about the book at Town Hall Seattle and at Powell’s in Portland, and next week I’m speaking at Harvard (see above) at 7pm on October 21st and at Barnes & Noble Tribeca
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Blog postAs you can see, my “Share it like Cicero” tube map has expanded, with the addition of @robinsloan (who inspired me to cook up the scheme in the first place) and @magicandrew in the US; here’s a pic of the hand-over. Also, two copies of “Writing on the Wall” appeared in Canada, in the hands of @vivi0202 and @kirstinestewart. So far the most widely travelled copy is that of @kattekrab, who took it from Australia back to England and passed it to @pdjohnson. All this has required the creation of
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Blog postIn June I proposed an unusual way to distribute a box of galley copies of my forthcoming book, “Writing on the Wall”. The book is about ancient social media, so the idea was to mimic the Roman book-distribution system, which involved the passing of books along social networks. The Romans used scribes to copy books before giving them to their friends; I’ve agreed to send out signed replacement copies to participants in the scheme, to replace the ones they’re passing on. After my initial post 2
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The video of my TEDxOxbridge talk on “lessons from ancient social media”, based on my forthcoming book “Writing on the Wall” is finally available! I’m quite pleased with it, even if they did cut out my bad joke at the beginning (“Good morning everyone — It’s great to be here in the historic city of, er, Oxbridge.”) Anyway, the talk gives a good flavour of the book, with three examples of ancient social media environments (Romans, Luther, coffeehouses) and three lessons from his
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