Daily Archives: Monday, December 1, 2003

A Texas nouveau niche magazine: Adweek.com is reporting the launch of Brilliant Magazine, a new entry in the “super affluent” magazine category the rexblog dubbed recently, “the nouveau niche.” I didn’t realize we’d be trendspotting so quickly. Quote: DALLAS Brilliance … Continue reading →

I could live without it, really: Okay, just because I think a really, really long magazine article about the iPod makes for some great reading doesn’t mean I love mine or anything. Quote from Steve Jobs (one of the best … Continue reading →

A magazine writing life: The WP’s excellent weekly feature, “The Writing Life” (I recommend the collected essays in bookform), this week is by Walter Issacson, former Time Magazine writer, editor and CNN president, who is author of one of my … Continue reading →

Takes one to know one? Fortune magazine is running a feature which asks, Is Maxim magazine maxed out?

Have your heard? Lots of start-ups this year: Perhaps to distance himself from the belief that he doesn’t “do” articles about independent magazine start-ups, David Carr does his take on the whole 2003 magazine start-up story. Of course, he quotes … Continue reading →

Christian makeup? Remember the vaporzine, Beautiful Girl Magazine. In a press release, the mother-daughter team launching it says it will be on newsstands next week. According to subscriber Kylene Scharf, 14, of Fon du Lac, Wis, “I’m so excited to … Continue reading →