Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
If you came to this post from my Facebook you’ve been participating in a little not-so-scientific experiment on my behalf. For most of the month of January almost all of my Facebook shares have passed through a new site I set up with WordPress and PressForward. On Chronoto.pe I archive a copy of everything I’ve read…
CFO Publishing Receives Folio’s Notable Technologies for 2014 Award CFO recognized as a technological innovator by Folio Magazine. New York, NY (PRWEB) February 02, 2015 CFO Publishing today announced it has been recognized as a technological innovator by Folio Magazine. CFO received the Notable Technologies for 2014 award for its in-house development of an advanced…
This year marked a time when media companies began seeing themselves akin to technology companies. Media and tech have always been in lockstep, one driving innovation in the other, but in 2014 that partnership started to creep into they way some companies actually defined themselves. And technology suppliers have been all too happy to…
Let me be 100% clear on this: F*ck the ad analytics industry. These companies are nothing but bunch of exploitive bullshit operations with malfunctioning code and an overly large stake in the only operation (IAB) that polices them, to let them get away with it. Why publishers ever agreed to a measure like viewability that,…
Aram Zucker-Scharff 24 mins · Edited · Running an experiment these last two weeks with my reading and Facebook sharing. First write-up will be in the next day or two, but here are some fun preview stats about those last two weeks: I read ~286 articles (I did not share them all). Total Facebook reach:…
You know what, I’m sort of irritated at the never ending list of gifs, articles and blog posts about Obama throwing shade or giving no f*cks in his SOTU address. I understand that America loves a man who gives the finger to The Man, so we applaud say… a flight attendant who gives the finger…
Aram Zucker-Scharff Doing some personal metrics tracking lately using a semi-secret process soon to be blogged about and have uncovered this fun fact: Since January 5th I’ve read >140 articles on the internet. As of this week, I think I’ll be able to track word counts. Sadly, I can confirm that the internet is still…
Credit: Image by Thinkstock The desire to build a community and reader engagement around articles is a growing focus for publishers and organisations on the web. Community, social media or user-generated content teams have become a mainstay of digital news organisations, and further possibilities for engagement are explored regularly. Now business site CFO has thrown…
Takeaway: Zucker-Scharff has built a ‘narrative map’ of CFO’s content to better match audience preferences with digital content. At 25, Aram Zucker-Scharff is a media jack-of-all-trades. Prior to joining CFO Publishing as a full-time content strategist in August, he’d consulted for the brand, was a primary developer for PressForward—an innovative content-aggregation tool—and masterminded two…