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Lipstick on an old media business model doesn’t make it new media
Regular readers of this blog know of my decade-long knee-jerk reactions to any notion that media intended to directly connect sellers and buyers is somehow: 1. Something new 2. Obviously unethical 3....
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It’s a magazine if you say it’s a magazine (me, I’m a print and screen...
Here’s something I used to care about, but don’t anymore: the word “magazine.”I still care about magazines (both professionally and personally), it’s the word I don’t care about anymore: what it is,...
View ArticleRex Live: Exploring the impact and opportunities of mobile media
During the next week, I’ll be with a group of journalists and a group of publishers who, in different ways, are exploring a similar topic: What are media creators and users learning about what works...
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It’s the words and photos, not bells and whistles, that make reading-media work
If I had time, I’d write a post that would reflect on what Patricio Robles says here and what Khoi Vinh said here.Short version (and, with apologies, some inside baseball): Condé Nast’s most successful...
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The future of magazines should look like magazines
Here’s one of those posts that seems to confuse people. They don’t understand how someone can embrace digital content as I do — but not embrace the notion that the print magazine format is...
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Isn’t fumbling iPad opportunities the favorite pastime of magazine publishers?
From an article today, April 12, 2012, on the website, Digiday, titled, Magazines Fumble the iPad Opportunity:“I don’t think there’s anything magazine-like out there that’s really resonating or...
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Yes, the web and mobile apps are like TV shows (and magazines)
Over the weekend, the smart and successful VC Fred Wilson used the metaphor of TV shows vs. TV networks to suggest that investors (and the rest of us) sometime (often?) confuse the significance of...
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Marco Arment’s Master Plan to Revolutionize the Future of Publishing
Actually, Marco, the developer of Tumblr and creator of Instapaper, says he doesn’t have a plan, nor is his new creation, The Magazine, a model for “how it’s done.”Quote:“A publication’s app should be...
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My predictions for the future of print magazines
Published in 1741, Ben Franklin’s General magazine shut-down after six issues, making it the first example in the U.S. of why there is no future in print magazines.On the Hammock blog, a post I wrote...
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On Chris Brogan’s podcast, taking about customer media, content and if living...
Recently, Chris Brogan invited me onto his very popular podcast where we talked a lot about how companies and businesses are using media and content to connect directly with their customers.It’s...
View ArticleI think my RSS news reader is smarter than your Al Gore rhythm
(Sidenote: On SmallBusiness.com, I’ve written about the new Getty embed feature like the one I’ve posted above.) The Verge has an interesting take on the acquisition earlier this week of the mobile...
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A New Yorker Cover That Magazine Wonks Will Love
Tweet “Every once in a while, there’s a perfect storm to produce an image.” Françoise Mouly New Yorker’s art editor in interview with the Washington Post The March 6, 2017, New Yorker provides a great...
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