Monthly Archives: December 2003

The perfect year-end post: While I had decided to forego any blogging while enjoying the perfect Tampa Bay-area weather, I determined the following news item is too perfect a metaphor for the rexblog (I’ll leave it up to you to interpret … Continue reading →

Blog lite: The weather is too perfect in the Tampa Bay area. There will be little or no blogging this week.

No joy in Camelot: Utne Reader has announced its 2003 “Utne Independent Press Awards” of “the best, liveliest, wisest, most significant periodicals we’ve seen in the last year.” Utne Reader, the left-leaning Readers Digest, explains the awards: “Of the thousands … Continue reading →

Keeps getting media: Gary Price at ResourceShelf points to a story about KeepMedia. Quote: The premise of Louis Borders’s business holds that American readers will buy old magazine stories if they can pay far less than they do for research … Continue reading →

Cracked: Yolk, a “pop culture magazine for Asian Americans,” has ceased publication. You’ll have to supply your own puns.

Funny numbers: Well, while I’m blogging G+J’s fast numbers, I decided to link to David Carr’s NYT story yesterday about Conde Nast’s decision to do like everyone else, and inflate its “implied” advertising revenue numbers. Quote: P.I.B. revenue figures bear … Continue reading →

Fast numbers: No, I am not the complete and total geek implied by my posting to the rexblog on Christmas day a story about magazine circulation. However, as a couple of Santa items are computer-related (and lots of fun), I … Continue reading →

Merry Christmas: So much to be joyful for this year. And very, very grateful. I’ll be blogging lightly until after January 1. Hug your families: they’re what really matters. Jeff Jarvis has Christmas thoughts about some other men and women … Continue reading →

Equal-opportunity failure: The Village Voice explores how Vanguarde Media “drowned in red ink.” Complete with a Samir Husni quote, the writer, Ta-Nehisi Coates, says Vanguarde was “a noble mission” that “proved futile.” Quote: “The magazine world runs as much on … Continue reading →

Profundity: The next time I see one of those surveys that show more people use the Internet than read magazines, I no longer have to depend on common sense to display how ridiculous a comparison that is. I can now … Continue reading →

Back to the future: In 2003, venture capitalists poured $100 million into the “social networking” space, according to this story. Quote: “The feature set and product set of sites like Friendster is not hype – it’s a reality,” says Andrew … Continue reading →

What a coincidence: As often happens, my blogging posts are running together in a serendipitously surreal way today. For example, in my last post, I snidely implied that the purchase by Time Inc. in July 2001 of Business 2.0 was … Continue reading →

Time’s Covers of the Year: As I have been known to have fun with Time Magazine covers, it is nice to see other folks get into the act. Seeing this reminded me of the quote from Time managing editor Jim … Continue reading →