Tuesday’s a travel day: Probably won’t be blogging that much.

More evidence that magazines are special: I don’t know about you, but I’m convinced one of the measures of a community’s quality of life is the pride it has in its library’s magazine shelving.

Custom publishing update: Benjamin Moore, the paint company, has announced the launch of a 50,000-circulation quarterly magazine, called Ensemble, for designers and architects, according to homechannelnews.com.

Break-through business model: Wired is reporting that publishers of a new scientific journal, Public Library of Science Biology have made a dramatic new discovery that could revolutionize the whole scientific journal business, heck, the whole magazine publishing industry, if you ask me: They believe they’ve discovererd a way to make authors pay THEM to publish their work. These guys deserve a Nobel Prize if they can pull off this one.

Custom publishing for life: While this WP article does not mention the term “custom publishing,” it describes some brand-building activities aimed at pre-schoolers and their parents which fall under the custom-publishing banner. And while my own children are past the target-demographic noted, I was, this weekend, the recipient of a custom magazine for a targeted group of high school students and their parents. It won’t be long before the dots are connected between the custom toddlerzine and the custom teenzine. (thanks to Jackie)

Stop the music: I don’t know about you, but I think there should be more music magazines, oh, no, that’s what I would think if I lived in Bizarro World. Mediapost’s Larry Dobrow has found yet another one to profile. Why are there so many magazines about contemporary music? Is it because waning female entertainers are so willing to appear nude on their covers? I have other theories but can’t think of a reason why it matters that I record them.