Freedom mail: Wired News reports the French government is replacing the term “e-mail” with a more French word, “courriel.” I feel certain the rest of the world will follow their lead on this one.

On campus: For the next few days, I’m attending (as an “ERC,” my badge says, indicating I’m an alumni of the course) the Stanford Professional Publishing Course. While I will not be “blogging” the classes I attend (I prefer playing the role of back-row dilettant student) I will probably post a few gem snippets from a session or two. The best thing about attending the course in a “refresher” capacity is getting to skip the “case study” requirement. While it was a “wonderful experience,” I’m happy not to do it again. Warning to employees of Hammock Publishing: Get ready to be bombarded with a raft of new rexisms.

Blame it on a magazine: A teenager arrested for counterfeiting cash blames the Rolling Stone for giving him the idea and telling him how to do it. The response from the magazine: “There was an article, but it wasn’t a how-to, it was about a kid who did it (printed counterfeit money)…We would never publish a how-to.” Glad to hear that.

Up economy: Good story on the U.S. success of The Economist Magazine.

Quote:

So how has an expensive, serious, elitist publication that looks like a magazine in every way — size, format, color cover, glossy pages — but considers itself a “weekly newspaper” managed to do so well in such a shaky economy? One answer is that the rich really do get richer, and Economist readers are sufficiently well-heeled that a $100 subscription is but a drop in the Champagne bucket. Their median household income is $137,478 — more than that of the readers of Time, Newsweek, Business Week, Forbes, Fortune or the New Yorker, according to last year’s Mendelsohn Affluent Head of Household Survey.

Sorry for a blog-free day: Traveling cross country into the tech center of the world, yet I couldn’t find access. I have now found it where I was told it did not exist. Weird. More later from one of my favorite spots.