Author: Mark Armstrong
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‘Slack Creep’ Is Real. Here’s How Your Company Can Avoid It
Slack can’t be both ephemeral and permanent.
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Membership, Paywalls, and Funding Journalism Without a Football Phone — Longreads Community
In the 1980s, Sports Illustrated landed on a surefire way to drive subscriptions to its magazine. A high-quality print product? Top-notch journalism? Yeah, yeah, sure — probably all of the above. But as a child sitting in front of my television every afternoon, what really sold me — and then by my constant pleading, sold […]…
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Welcome to markarms.blog!
Because what good am I if I’m not dogfooding my company’s new .blog domains? Here’s to the back-to-.blogging movement. If you’re interested in one, get in touch.
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What to Consider When the Platforms Show Up with Money
Over at Nieman Lab, Laura Hazard Owen has written an interesting breakdown of how Medium wooed five different publishers over to its platform, and how it’s going so far. Unfortunately (not Laura’s fault; blame the NDAs!), it’s missing a critical piece of the wooing, which is a financial breakdown of what each of them might…
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‘If You Bet Against Text, You Will Lose’
From the weekend reading file: I love Tim Carmody’s response to a Facebook executive’s prediction that “In five years time Facebook ‘will be definitely mobile, it will be probably all video.’” Video and audio have never threatened text and images for dominance on the internet, despite Facebook’s best efforts. Even if we set aside the high production costs…
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The Truth About Working from Home
I spoke with PSFK Labs about Automattic‘s “distributed” work model — at 430+ employees, we’re one of the world’s largest companies where everyone works from home (or anywhere they please). There are pros and cons to any work situation. How a company performs depends a lot on who it hires, how those people get along, how…
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Instructors and Community Make a Difference
WARNING, PEOPLE: The following is an exercise testimonial. A year and a half ago I was chatting with my sister in law about starting to exercise again. And by “again,” I mean I don’t think I had worked out regularly in more than 15 years.
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In Praise of Public Pitching
I spoke with Jason Fagone and Ted Genoways about the art of pitching in public.
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Twitter Still Has What Everyone Else Wants
Twitter does one thing well, and it’s more valuable and harder to replicate than Josh Topolsky gives credit.