My first-day advice to new members of the team boils down to, “Don’t worry, you are going to be totally miserable in about three months.” We all know the excitement of that first day at work. There are new people to meet, new projects to learn and new roles and responsibilities to master. Part of […]
One of my favorite things about ONA is the session pitch. It is a great chance to wonder, “do I actually have anything to say?” but more importantly “what do I want to learn more about?” The suggestion box opened recently and I am still thinking about this post from October on the challenges of building great products at legacy news […]
(tldr; A product strategy is only as strong as its weakest link.) The Twitter dust-up this week ostensibly about digital having been a mistake for newspapers felt a bit like Groundhog Day (the movie.) New day, same argument, same result. Steve Buttry and Mathew Ingram both posted eloquent rebuttals: Buttry: The newspaper industry’s colossal mistake was a […]
As the old joke goes, you have three options for any project: “Quick, Cheap or Good. Pick two.” For better or worse, at least those are affirmative choices – assuming you make them well enough in advance of the deadline. But wait till you have a month or a week left and the equation changes. […]
Since it launched, Zite has been one of my favorite apps. Keying off my Twitter stream the product does an absolutely amazing job of finding stories I am 1) interested in; 2) had not seen already; 3) from sources I was unlikely to stumble across. That sort of personalization – saving time by accurately […]