Google's blog post on the introduction of their new magazine search starts like this:
The word "magazine" is derived from the Arabic word "makhazin," meaning storehouse. Since Daniel Defoe published the world's first English magazine back in 1704, millions of magazines catering to nearly every imaginable taste have been created and consumed, passed from person to person in cafes, barber shops, libraries, and homes around the world. If you're wondering what cars people drove in the eighties or wh… Continue
Added by Irwin on December 10, 2008 at 12:12pm —
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Printed materials weigh a lot. From books to corporate brochures, these bulky materials are costly to ship and costly for the environment in terms of emissions from the planes, trains and trucks that transport them.
Normally, books are printed in one place, shipped worldwide to distributors and then forwarded to booksellers, each step of which can significantly contribute to the total volume of greenhouse gases an organization or company emits.
That opens a niche for what some organizations an… Continue
Added by Irwin on December 2, 2008 at 5:00pm —
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The TypePad Journalist Bailout Program offers recently terminated bloggers and journalists a free pro account (worth $150 annually) on the company’s popular blogging platform. In addition to the free yearly membership, the 20 to 30 journalists who are accepted will receive professional tech support, placement on the company’s blog aggregation site, Blogs.com, and automatic enrollment in the company’s advertising revenue-sharing program.
Anil Dash, a former blogger and current vice president at… Continue
Added by Irwin on November 24, 2008 at 8:02am —
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This week, the company laid off more than three dozen online staffers from its CondéNet division, which oversees its popular "destination" Web sites like Epicurious.com and Style.com (as opposed to the online versions of the company's print magazines). This follows the decision two weeks ago to cut back the print version of Portfolio to 10 times a year, fire most of the staff of Portfolio.com, and curtail most of the site's original content.
According to one report, a Portfolio.com staffer who… Continue
Added by Irwin on November 17, 2008 at 5:17pm —
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Supposedly perpetrated by the Yes Men, this fake edition of the Times, complete with web version hit the, uh, newsstands today. Too bad they got the fonts wrong.
Not me.
This is the line outside the New York Times building of people waiting to buy a copy of today's paper.
UPDATE: Who said print was dead?. The Times printed 75,000 additional copies and are now selling commemorative editions which may be ordered online or at 1-800-… Continue
Added by Irwin on November 5, 2008 at 2:00pm —
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This form of instant and global self-publishing, made possible by technology widely available only for the past decade or so, allows for no retroactive editing (apart from fixing minor typos or small glitches) and removes from the act of writing any considered or lengthy review. It is the spontaneous expression of instant thought—impermanent beyond even the ephemera of daily journalism. It is accountable in immediate and unavoidable ways to readers and other bloggers, and linked via hypertext to… Continue
Added by Irwin on October 21, 2008 at 5:27pm —
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Tiff and SaraJane (from Tuesday's section) would like everyone's help in voting for the name of their proposed publication. (See their previous post describing their idea below.)
Please go here and vote!Continue
Added by Irwin on October 19, 2008 at 1:00pm —
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The Times has begun a new series of articles on the future of reading. The questions they pose are good ones for us to think about:
How is reading a book different than reading on a screen or online?
If books are so wonderful, why don't all of us read more of them?
Is reading on the screen inherently worse or better… Continue
Added by Irwin on October 6, 2008 at 8:02am —
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Isn't it amazing that there's always exactly 60 minutes' worth of news everyday, and that, when transcribed, it fills exactly one newspaper?
Have you ever stopped to think how utterly fortuitous it is that every televisual story worth telling can be neatly broken into segments of exactly 22 minutes (plus commercials) or 48 minutes (ditto)? That every story that makes a good subject for a film takes somewhere between 90 minutes and two hours to tell? That all albums fit conveniently on one or so… Continue
Added by Irwin on September 23, 2008 at 4:26pm —
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