I wrote a post over at werd.io about idno, the open source publishing tool I've been building:
What decisions would I make if I was building Elgg today, in 2013? What would I do the same way, and what would I do differently?
It's still a relatively technical post - it's still very much in development, after all - but go read the whole post and let me know what you think.
Why aren't newsrooms sharing and innovating? And more.
"The problem is, if you’re optimizing a product that fundamentally isn’t working for how people get news in 2026, all you’re really doing is riding that buggy off of a cliff with style."
"Feed algorithms are widely suspected to influence political attitudes." This study shows that some do - to significant effect.
In a world where traffic is decreasing, publishers are moving more heavily into subscriptions - with very good results.
