Recent Content Strategy Stuff

A A Ever since Nate Silver left his perch at the New York Times and took his FiveThirtyEight blog to ESPN, where he subsequently launched an ambitious experiment aimed at data-driven journalism, the NYT has been working on a new venture aimed in part at filling the hole he left, and also at competing with the "explanatory journalism" of Ezra Klein's recently launched Vox project.

The New York Times lost 80 million homepage visitors-half the traffic to the nytimes.com page-in two years. That's according to this graphic, taken from an internal review of Times digital strategy obtained by BuzzFeed. This is the clearest illustration of the demise of homepages I've seen.

No, the just-launched Glass isn't Quartz's foray into wearables - it's the new home for the Atlantic Media business site's "obsession" (Quartz's term for verticals) with screens: "The name is an argument: that media are best understood as a competition for attention on screens connected to the internet.

Remember the eurozone crisis? You don't hear much about it anymore, which could easily lead you to the conclusion that the problems have been solved. And to an extent they have been. Nobody thinks the eurozone is going to collapse anymore, and nobody thinks there will be a worldwide banking panic.

Museums curate works of art. We digital marketers curate blog posts. Though our link shares may not be artistic contributions, the idea of curation is at least the same at museums and online: We're all seeking only the best material to pass along to our patrons, customers, fans, or followers.

You sometimes hear what we do at Circa described as "chunkifying" - taking the news and presenting it in mobile-friendly chunks. And while on the surface this observation is correct, it misses the bigger picture. Yes, each "point" of Circa is a single unit of news - something designated as a fact, quote, statistic, event or image.

The way we find, read, share, and publish ideas and create value has changed. See more here: http://blog.list.ly/2014/05/07/alone-together-how-we-find-creat...