Who knew? apparently it happened last month. Previously Jeff Jarvis vanished as a regular spot, possibly because of budget issues around space for newspapers. I was unable to confirm the information that there was a change, let alone get a comment. But this is just a blog so why would the Guardian answer a question?
Has this "digital first" decision been mentioned anywhere else? Is there a Rusbridger tweet? I may well have missed it.
Maybe Jeff Jarvis is writing about newspapers in general. What he says makes a lot of sense and has done for a number of years. The buzzmachine blog continues with the crucial stuff but it can always be edited for cohesion and relevance in a specific context.
Buzzmachine may have included something like this before
When working in collaboration with the public – which can help news become at once more expansive and less expensive – it may be useful to help collaborators improve what they do: journalist as community organiser, journalism teacher, support system.
But of course the "digital first" decision is welcome. Especially if there is more explanation. And the space for Jeff Jarvis is well used as well. Looking forward to the next one, polished up buzzmachine with extra facts from sources close to the Guardian.
When working in collaboration with the public – which can help news become at once more expansive and less expensive – it may be useful to help collaborators improve what they do: journalist as community organiser, journalism teacher, support system.
I have been thinking about a canal walk towards the Olympic site from Regent's Park. Main issue has been the tunnel from King's Cross to beyond the Angel. But it turns out there is a route to the business Design Centre and it should be ok to find the canal again. Narrowboat Pub can be phoned.
I am still getting used to MOO and the new QR code cards. Being an affiliate seems very sensible, a way back into hard copy. I am not sure where MOO is as a print setup but I think it is near the famous silicon roundabout. Possibly not as global a challenge as sometimes claimed. There have always been services on the edge of the City. Some are technology, some are print. But the Land of MOO is the next space to explore, once I find the way back to the canal from Islington Green. Meanwhile the timing of Cross Media is an open question in my book. September 2012 may be too late. http://www.indesem.nl/?p=239A PDF article on Public Space shows how architecture of physical space now mingles with online. This map of a route round Cross Media is intended to be public. Invites to Google Docs version on request.According to Nick Craig Waller, event director at Informa, the show will "combine product and solution demonstrations with strategic and tactical insights".Craig Waller said: "Our aim with Cross Media 2011 is to bring commercial print providers and their marketing clients together so that they have a better understanding about what the other has to offer, and they can see for themselves the potential for integrating paper-based marketing with digital and online tactics such as video, social media and email.
Maybe this is more direct than claiming that there is a positive case for not having a bookshop on a modern university retail experience such as Exeter is about to relaunch when the building is completed. It would be a shame to launch a new site only to close within a few years. But I don't think the case for a campus without a bookshop has been filly explored. I still don't understand why a library is different. Why bricks? actually why have a campus at all? Yet building continues. What is "Science 2.0" ? Will it need a new set of buildings jumping the city over the motorway and into the countryside?Tim Smyth, manager of the bookshop, said the board of the university-owned bookshop took the decision to close before the shop became unprofitable, which he expected would be next year. He said: “We have always been above the line but next year we will fall below the line. I don’t know how we (independent booksellers) can do it anymore. Certainly the academic model has reached a tipping point now, it is unsustainable.
“We didn’t want to be in a position where we had to limit the range we supply and damage our reputation, which is important to us.”
Steady profits have become, in some cases, severe losses; last week, to give one example, the Guardian and Observer reported a cash loss of £33m for last year.
It sank in last week that Exeter could be the first university with a positive spin on why there is no bookshop. Overnight I can remember something on the World Service about "showoff" architecture, the sort that announces new cities in a desert. Thing is, UK universities seem to be going the same way. Both Lancaster and Exeter have been building sites for a while. Then the Express and Echo has a page one story about how a "new era for the city" will herald the dawn of knowledge-based employment as Exeter carves out a niche as a City of Science.