http://delicious.com/rexblog/magazines Items I think may be of interest to magazine wonks. 2008-07-09T04:31:16Z http://www.foliomag.com/2008/young-americans-business-magazines-1-wikipedia-2 rexblog Via the Edleman Trust Barometer: Americans, 24 to 35, ranked business magazines #1 and Wikipedia #2 when asked How credible is each source for information about a company... magazines 2008-07-07T11:34:19Z http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/jul/07/pressandpublishing.mediabusiness rexblog Quote - "Newspaper and magazine publishers are beginning to conceive of a future without print - but in the B2B sector, the digital future is already here." (Note: I promise I've heard of IDG.) b2b, magazines, idg 2008-07-02T11:46:00Z http://mrmagazine.wordpress.com/2008/07/01/time-to-relax-dream-it-live-it/ rexblog Samir Husni is the only person I know who posts side-by-side covers of newsstand and subscriber versions of the same issue of a magazine. At some point, I'll blog why I think their should be little difference. magazines 2008-06-30T20:12:56Z http://www.foliomag.com/2008/mother-all-online-magazine-games rexblog Good magazine sites start with the basic idea ("online games drive traffic") and then build on it in a way that fits and reinforces their brands. magazines gaming 2008-06-28T22:25:49Z http://www.cnbc.com/id/25414229 rexblog I can answer that. The magazine industry generates $30 billion in advertising revenue plus many tens of billions in subscriptions, books, data, research, events and, yes, online ad dollars. Maghound won't save it. magazines 2008-06-28T19:27:07Z http://www.foliomag.com/2008/maghound-com-set-debut-september rexblog I can think of ways the "Netflix for magazines" does not work as a good analogy, but I'm greatly supportive of any new model for fixing the broken-from-the-start U.S. mag subscription model. magazines circulation maghound 2008-06-23T15:41:11Z http://adage.com/mediaworks/article?article_id=127908 rexblog Surely Scott Donaton was winking when he said : "We're a category of one. When we cover a celebrity, it's about what they do for a living; it's not about who they're sleeping with." magazines, humor 2008-06-20T03:53:15Z http://bosacks.homestead.com/pmg1.html rexblog Quote - It is attacks and stupidity like this that will tear down the very industry that they are attempting to prop up with self-serving dogma. advertising magazines publishing 2008-06-16T23:19:30Z http://www.rexblog.com/2008/06/16/17721/ rexblog JPG magazine founder Derek Powazek has been working with HP Labs for the past year on a short-run Print-on-Demand magazine service called MagCloud. publishing powazek jpgmagazine magcloud magazines 2008-06-13T14:21:15Z http://mediapro.foliomag.com/profile/RexHammock rexblog Tagline - MediaPRO is the professional and social network for the Magazine & eMedia Publishing industry. It's running on the Ning platform so if you're registered on another Ning site, your profile will work here, as well. magazines socialmedia community media socialnetworking 2008-06-10T11:50:07Z http://seekingalpha.com/article/80651-what-magazines-dont-understand-about-the-web rexblog Quote - "You can embargo the newsstand, but you can't embargo Google, which is the new newsstand." google, magazines 2008-06-09T18:55:48Z http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/8-simple-rules-succeeding-web/story.aspx?guid=%7B4C27E792-1C60-458C-B005-6DE261AC35C9%7D&dist=msr_8 rexblog There is no excuse for magazine editors and publishers to be uneasy about the Internet. They talk as if it's some strange, exotic instrument that nobody quite understands. magazines 2008-05-27T14:03:56Z http://wwd.com/issue/article/125201?page=0 rexblog Fears that full Condé Nast ownership would turn what had been an iconic and utopian magazine into simply another shopping experience have not been borne out, (founder Louis Rossetto) said. "It's not just about gadgets." magazines wired 2008-05-27T14:00:04Z http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/05/26/DDBN10T4A2.DTL rexblog "Any human interest can become a magazine," said Halsey Minor, whose Minor Ventures is the parent of 8020 Publishing. (See also, from 3+ years ago, a rexblog post: http://www.rexblog.com/2005/01/13/13477/ ) magazines 2008-05-27T03:55:52Z http://adage.com/digital/article?article_id=127283 rexblog Quote - A combination of forces led by the broad economic slump is delivering as challenging a year as ever for traditional publishers. magazines