I, For One, Welcome Our New Blog Overlords!

The quiet launch of one of our newest experiments means that I can at last start talking a little bit more about plans in the work. Where brands like indieWIRE used to be the "new media pressure on traditional brands," those same new media brands could very well suffer if they don't embrace the power of community publishing.

I'm no stranger to community publishing models. Any of those three could easily be reborn with little more than a copy of Moveable Type, good alliance building and a super-cost-streamlined business infrastructure.

The interesting thing about this era, though, is how RSS and XML remixing make efforts that were difficult just three years ago (like real publisher syndicates of collaborator/competitors) essentially zero development ... except for that pesky alliance building. The Web, just like the kind of business I like to practice, is all about relationships.

I'll write more on what we're cooking up there in the coming weeks ... either here, or there, since I apparantly now have two blogs.

posted to Internet Publishing on April 13, 2004