Monday, September 18, 2006

Magazines and the Web in the news This slick-covered aggregation was inspired in part by Rex Hammock... David Carr: Contemplating Time Warner Without Time. Shareholder pressure suggests that Time Inc. will either become a smaller, more profitable division of a public company or it will be in play. By David Carr. [NYT > Media and Advertising] (Plus Jeff Jarvis's comments.) Matt Kinsman, in FolioBlog, taking aim at another media stereotype: "Yes, I know, editors based in the New York-area are supposed to be either weaving baskets during Tracy Chapman concerts, queuing up outside Aer (or whatever hotspot will replace it next month), or God, help us, blogging incessantly in their spare time, but me, I like to pop off a few rounds."  The Guardian on The New Yorker: "It's a magazine that runs 10,000-word articles on African states and the pension system, has almost no pictures and is published in black and white. So how does the New Yorker sell more than a million copies a week?" (and Guardian again, on Why you should judge a magazine by its cover.) IDG Communications' president, Bob Carrigan, about magazines moving online:  [base "]We want everyone to access our content... I can[base ']t overstate the value of community enough.  They (users) find that the wisdom of the crowds is more important to them than the wisdom of a few editors."  8:38:11 PM    comment []

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