Daily Archives: Thursday, December 18, 2003

How to impress the rexblog: While several vaporziners have e-mailed me since I first started using the term vaporzine, I’ve had only two phone conversations with irate proto-publishers of pre-launch magazines. Most of the people who discover via Google that … Continue reading →

The prescient professor: It must be that season. Magazines that Samir Husni predicted would fail are failing all over the place. A few weeks ago, it was Grace Magazine. And now, it’s College Magazine, about which I blogged last April. … Continue reading →

Billionaire hobbies: David Carr and Andrew Ross Sorkin try to make economic sense out of Bruce Wasserstein’s “maddeningly vague” purchase for $55 million of New York Magazine, a property that is discribed as, “financially stuggling.” The article quotes two magazine … Continue reading →

Does a demographic equal a magazine opportunity? As I mentioned Samir Husni in the previous post, I must admit that I thought of him when I saw this news item today in DM News about a vaporzine for black golf … Continue reading →

Samir quote update: Exams may be over in Oxford, but Ole Miss professor Samir Husni is never on vacation. Here’s a great quote (perhaps, however, from a recent wire feature) from Mr. Magazine appearing in today’s Relish Magazine, an insert … Continue reading →