Fast Companiontag:typepad.com,2003:weblog-3260482009-10-20T14:56:49-05:00What's the deal with Fast Company magazine?TypePadBeing Fasttag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451e1c169e20120a65f33c1970c2009-10-20T14:56:49-05:002009-10-20T14:56:49-05:00Content Decoded » POV: How to Think about Innovation in Content, 2009-Oct-20, by Rick Liebling Uncompromising. Unexpected. Unconventional. Bring these back to magazines and the readers just may come back as well. Or maybe it calls for something even more...TQhttp://qviews.typepad.com/fastco/2009/10/being-fast.htmlFast Company Stumbles on Digital, Againtag:typepad.com,2003:post-580002482008-11-04T10:09:52-06:002008-11-04T10:09:52-06:00I'm sorry to hear that Fast Company is laying off people who worked on the web site and folding their digital division into the print magazine management. But not surprised. When they launched the new community, I dutifully signed up...TQhttp://qviews.typepad.com/fastco/2008/11/fast-company-stumbles-on-digital-again.htmlRethinking Publishingtag:typepad.com,2003:post-540902762008-08-12T11:33:34-05:002008-08-12T11:33:34-05:00Wow! This article causes me to rethink many of my preconceptions about marketing communications. Employment of marketing communications professionals inside corporations seems to have declined in my perception. Now I wonder if that's really true, and if it is, if...TQhttp://qviews.typepad.com/fastco/2008/08/bosacks-heard-o.htmlSeizing the Stereotypetag:typepad.com,2003:post-526924762008-07-14T15:52:03-05:002008-07-14T15:52:03-05:00Big Wind from Texas is identified on FastCompany.com as being from the July 2008 issue of the magazine, but it's not in MY copy for July/August 2008! The article is an interview with Jerry Patterson, Commissioner of the Texas General...TQhttp://qviews.typepad.com/fastco/2008/07/seize-the-stere.htmlMissing the Rebelliontag:typepad.com,2003:post-516692382008-06-21T09:51:11-05:002008-06-21T09:51:11-05:00I just received an excellent issue of Inc. magazine. In contrast, I've been carrying Fast Company around for days, trying to get myself to read it. Inc. does a wonderful job of celebrating the individuality of entrepreneurs. No two are...TQhttp://qviews.typepad.com/fastco/2008/06/missing-the-reb.htmlEditorial Privilegetag:typepad.com,2003:post-511541642008-06-10T15:25:45-05:002008-06-10T15:25:45-05:00Some editors make a contribution, some editors are just gatekeepers, some are parasites, some are mufflers, and some are gags. We have to make them earn their keep. As media consumers, it's often hard for us to know what the...TQhttp://qviews.typepad.com/fastco/2008/06/editorial-privi.htmlI found it on the internettag:typepad.com,2003:post-502609122008-05-26T16:53:54-05:002008-05-26T16:53:54-05:00I, too, have worried about the death of "long-form" journalism. Who will pay reporters to spend months researching a story the way Woodward and Bernstein did at the Washington Post (Publisher Katharine Graham is still one of my heros) ?...TQhttp://qviews.typepad.com/fastco/2008/05/cjr-lost-media.htmlFast Company Still Doesn't Get Thistag:typepad.com,2003:post-450836582008-05-19T11:59:59-05:002008-05-19T11:59:59-05:00Publishing Executive: More than ever, the quality and quantity of your audience are crucial to your success. Here’s how you can improve your existing customer relationships and build new ones. 2007-Dec-1, by Bill Amstutz Once merely a direct-marketing operation pushing...TQhttp://qviews.typepad.com/fastco/2008/05/fast-company-st.htmlPut Up or Shut Uptag:typepad.com,2003:post-498075642008-05-13T10:42:02-05:002008-05-13T10:42:02-05:00Even in everyday conversation, we have to filter our comments with "is this really going to add to the discussion?" Too many magazines get established by one group of people and get taken over by another group of people who...TQhttp://qviews.typepad.com/fastco/2008/05/put-up-or-shut.htmlIn the Future: No View from 50,000 Feettag:typepad.com,2003:post-492783482008-05-01T10:07:32-05:002008-05-01T10:07:32-05:00If you believe as I do, that nothing is more important than a good perspective, you have to be concerned about the shrinking of the news divisions in the mainstream media. Not that they always provided a healthy perspective, but...TQhttp://qviews.typepad.com/fastco/2008/05/in-the-future-n.html