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A Lesson from the Digital Productivity Terrorists

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Doctorow: Productivity Terrorist? To the traditional print journalist, their new ethos of digital productivity is not just foreign, it’s al-Qaeda foreign. But his title suggests that he sees productivity not as a rare natural talent, but as the product of training. Yet we were exactly as productive as we needed to be.

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The Coming Content Marketing-Publishing Continuum

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Writing on Foliomag.com earlier this month, blogger Josh Gordon spun a comment heard at the Folio: show into a bullish prediction for print magazines. On the other is pure content marketing, where the money is entirely in sales of products and services. It’s trendy for content marketers to say that we’re all publishers.

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Digital Drudgery and Second-Stage Shovelware

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But today, without knowing he was doing it, blogger Adam Tinworth rode to my rescue. The journalists who object to liveblogging, he suggests, don’t understand that it is process-driven rather than product-driven: “Most journalists think in a goal-driven way. All they’re doing is stuffing a print-era product into an e-mail skin.

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Blog Comments: Chaos or Currency?

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But then what does for most bloggers? Certainly the comments they approve and respond to all reflect a genuine and productive engagement with the topic. In addition to a carefully targeted focus, there are probably a couple of other reasons these bloggers get such a wealth of thoughtful and useful comments. Please let me know.).

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30 Lessons from 30 Blog Posts in 30 Days

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Though no one’s going to hand me a blogger’s version of their badge, I feel something akin to the mixture of pride and relief all those successful NaNoWriMo writers must be experiencing today. In writing 30 posts, I more than doubled my previous most productive month, way back in October 2009 , and far exceeded my usual average.

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Should Journalism Schools Rethink Magazines? (Or Even Journalism Itself?)

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In Sivek’s article, Medill ’s Rachel Davis Mersey repositions the role of journalism education in brilliantly simple terms: “I object to the idea that all new products have to be digital products. I’m pushing my students to not be content-first, not platform-first, but audience-first,” Mersey said. “My

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Adam Tinworth: Journalism in a Period of Continuous Change

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If I were asked to name one active blogger that every B2B journalist should follow, I would probably suggest Adam Tinworth. Adam Tinworth. For more than eight years, the British trade press editor has blogged about journalism, social media, and much more on One Man and His Blog.