In my job, every couple of weeks or so, I get unsolicited pitches from freelance journalists asking if I’d be interested in commissioning certain stories. I often am. These emails generally include social media and website links for people to show off their published work. I was really blown away in the week by someone’s personal story portfolio on a site called Jux. I haven’t really explored the platform much myself, but the presentation is breath-taking, and I bet it’s just superb on an ipad.

It’s actually amazing now that regular folk can set-up their own content platforms that look so much better than the biggest names in the news media. The web is opening incredible possibilities now, and at some point I hope to explore more. It’s like the old media is a black and white newspaper, while your free personal site is a glossy magazine. Maybe being based on an old-school institutional platform is going to become less and less important, and the new key differentiate-r will be the quality of the content.