‘content’ posts

Being Interesting is Not Enough: Be Useful

Posted by John Eckman on 10 Sep 2009

How to Be Useful (Photo by Robert Banh, cc-by license) I used to be fond of saying that the best advice for content-centric businesses on the web was a simple commandment: Above all, be interesting – everything else will follow from that Being interesting is still necessary, of course – if you’re trying to create [...]

Who Pays for Content? What’s in it for Me? Vote!

Posted by John Eckman on 02 Sep 2009

Pardon the brief, self-promotional nature of this post, but I just realized if I don’t get one up soon I’m going to miss the deadline – voting for SXSW Interactive 2010 ends this Friday! Photo by ehnmark, cc-by license I’ve submitted two panel proposals this year – each is described below with a voting link. [...]

Ecommerce Review: Crocs. The New Site on the Block.

Posted by Marc Osofsky on 01 Sep 2009

Crocs has launched a new site (http://www.crocs.com/) and I thought it would be interesting to take a look and talk a bit about what an ecommerce site looks like in 2009. Crocs is also a direct-to-consumer brand, and there is a lot of action in D2C ecommerce right now, so looking at this site with | View post »

Open Source and Design: Ideologies Clashing (SXSW Extended Content)

Posted by John Eckman on 17 Jun 2009

One of the panels I proposed for SXSW Interactive 2009 was on the intersection of open source and design: Thesis: Open Source and Design are fundamentally philosophically incompatible. Antithesis: Open Source and Design are profoundly similar in core beliefs and approaches. This talk works to articulate a meaningful synthesis between these two positions. The talk, [...]

Save Paste and the future of publishing?

Posted by John Eckman on 18 May 2009

I’m a big fan and subscriber of Paste, an independent U.S.-based monthly (now shifting closer to bi-monthly, with every other issue being a single-topic special edition) magazine focused on music, film, and books, with a passionate spirit. Currently, however, they are running a Campaign to Save Paste, soliciting donations to offset operating losses. What does [...]

Publishing in the Age of the Assembled Web

Posted by John Eckman on 07 May 2009

The spring of 2009 has been a difficult one for publishers – newspapers especially – in the U.S., with many sizable metropolitan papers moving to online only, closing, or facing the possibility of closing. It’s lead many to wonder (again) what the future holds for publishers – whose value has arguably been derived from information [...]

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