Launched: I hope the writing in the new magazine CDK is better than that found in the press release announcing it. But then, as the press release points out: “CADKEY users are always looking for ways to ‘push the envelope.’”

Hi: Hi Magazine launches this week in the Middle East. It is a custom published magazine from a fellow member of the Custom Publishing Council, the Magazine Group, for the U.S. State Department. Oh yeah, and my friend and hero, Samir Husni played a role in its development.

rexournal: The rexblog is not noted for lively discussions, so I thought I should point to one that’s taking place about the news yesterday regarding “AOL Journals” and my declaration that AOL has no chance of getting even its customers to use the term “web journaling” to describe what they will be doing on the platform.

I hope: I don’t think I’ll be linking to any more feature stories about Bonnie Fuller after this one. Of course, I said that about Martha Stewart a couple years ago.

Impressive: If your magazine had an essay contest, how many readers would enter? At Glamour, 10,000 did. (Note: this story is from MINs, but as their links die untimely deaths, I’ve linked it to the Google cache page. I’ll be commenting on Google cache pages later.)