Monthly Archives: August 2003

The skinny on diet blogs: I try not to blog about blogging, but a certain friend of mine seemed very smug when she discovered I knew nothing about one of the fastest-growing genres of weblogs, diet diaries. I think I’ll … Continue reading →

Take this magazine, please: After getting 35,000 submissions a month of really bad jokes, the editors of Readers Digest decided it was time to put out an issue on how to be funny. Which reminds me, I once sent in … Continue reading →

Deer me: A Guttenberg, Iowa, entrepreneur saw a niche opportunity in the deer hunting magazine marketplace: he discovered there was not a single one with very little advertising, a circulation of only 15,000 (in a category boasting 18 million participants) … Continue reading →

Fargone in North Dakota: The launch of “The Plains Woman,” a magazine for women who live in North Dakota (talk about your microniches) failed because, according to the mostly female staff, the employees were mistreated by management.

Not surprised: There are just too many amusing (tragic?) aspects to this “hometown-girl-appears-in-a-magazine” news story that it’s hard to choose just one quote, but here goes: “But her parent’s aren’t too surprised.” Nor should they be.