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Comment on A design critique of Publish2 by Daniel Bachhuber

Daniel Bachhuber — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 03:35:36 +0000

Good observations… stay tuned.

Comment on A design critique of Publish2 by Ryan Sholin

Ryan Sholin — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 16:39:19 +0000

Hi Andrew — Ryan from Publish2 here.

First of all, thanks for the critique!

What you’re seeing on the new homepage and related static pages around the site is the leading edge of a set of new features we’ll be rolling out a few pieces at a time along with a redesign over the next month or two. And we’ll certainly be reaching out to Publish2 users like you to beta test a revamped bookmarklet, and a streamlined user experience that will plant search and discovery high on the page. We’re certainly inspired by (and users of) Dropbox and Tumblr, among others.

To answer your other questions about the new homepage:

We’re supporting the free service for journalists by creating a separate version of Publish2 for corporate use. It should be a familiar model: Advertising supports journalism.

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A design critique of Publish2 « Andrew Spittle — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 16:05:12 +0000

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Comment on News as Software by Daniel Bachhuber

Daniel Bachhuber — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 17:22:34 +0000

Win. The biggest challenge, though, is the culture and mindset shift, which I don’t really see happening all that much. Most “newspaper” websites are stuck in a certain paradigm where only the editors know what we need to know. Which is a bit of a ridiculous notion, considering now you can just publish all of the information and float it in more effective ways.

Comment on The changing nature of work by Andrew

Andrew — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 16:57:01 +0000

Thanks DJ. I think that another similarity in the problems facing education and work is the question of agility. Both systems need to become more agile because the large-scale, cookie-cutter approaches clearly have a hard time adapting to technological and social change.

Comment on The changing nature of work by DJ Strouse

DJ Strouse — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 03:23:06 +0000

“Work must become tied to a life-long process of education and cognitive development.”

This is a very interesting insight. We have all discussed changing models of both work and education, but separately. Why?

The problems in both are similar – overly restricted cookie-cutter approaches that ignore individual goals and new technologies. The opportunities in both are the same – to provide a diverse set of lifetime experiences that will appeal to different people at different stages in life.

I’ve been rethinking the nature of work and the nature of education separately all this time, but now I wonder – as long we’re doing some rethinking, why not look at both of these as two sides of the same personal development coin?

Comment on The changing nature of work by Andrew

Andrew — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 03:22:44 +0000

I agree with the conclusion you and DJ came to about the economy. It does seem to me like that is also changing significantly but with any broad economic change I think there is an inherent change in work as well (aka, in the way individuals relate and position themselves within that economy). While the economic change is definitely the long term factor I think that individual relationships to work will change before we see the larger economic changes.

The data question is a good one. One thing that pops into my mind is tracking the positions help by people who are laid off versus those that a company is hiring for. This could, potentially, show a relationship between outmoded jobs and newly in demand ones. Another statistic that could be tracked is the number of jobs and type of positions held by people over the course of their lives. Speaking from personal experience I’ve already held 3 full time positions in three different industries (and that’s not even counting CoPress).

The data is an important part of the equation and other than the above I have a hard time conceptualizing other aspects to track (probably because my mind works in hypotheticals and isn’t as scientific as it should be).

Ultimately the idea that technology makes *all* jobs obsolete is not the case. But, like you said, I think it does provide an interesting model from which we can analyze some of the short term shifts.

Comment on News as Software by Walter

Walter — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 21:11:08 +0000

I like the idea of switching away from the consumption model. This mindset has hobbled many types of media organizations. But I’m not as clear how customization (a good thing) can meaningfully scale down. The New York times has a vast quantity of content, the Union-Bulletin does not. But even within large news organizations like NYT the content is fairly limited compared to the vast world of news that we’ve become accustomed too “consuming” day-to-day. It’s obviously a tremendous paradigm shift for publishers but I think coming up with a fair way to monetize a Google News type program would fit how I want to interact with the news. Because at the end of the day there isn’t a news organization capable of being my sole supplier of information.

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Trailblazing Web Team Moves On | Digital Journalism — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 16:27:31 +0000

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Comment on The changing nature of work by Daniel Bachhuber

Daniel Bachhuber — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 17:55:15 +0000

Another question: What data would you track in order to prove or disprove any of the hypotheses present in your post?