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Not easy as ABC: “There’s no Plan B at the moment,” says the publisher of Tall Magazine in an article in the Oakland Tribune. That’s not true. I suggested a Plan B last August when I first blogged this start-up.

The consumer magazine about giving update: Perhaps fearful of the term vaporzine, a start-up magazine I blogged in Janurary has issued a press release that is similar to their first release. The first one, however, says they will launch in March and since today marks the end of that month, their new press release announces they are launching in April. However, they still say they are “the first” magazine of their kind, which, I tried to explain in a later post, is not so. But, hey, first, last, whatever, I hope they do good. At least they’re not trying to replace Martha or launching another shopping magazine for men.

Southern exposure: I’m attempting to e-mail this post to the rexblog as the news of a recall of Southern Living due to a defective recipe is too hot (sorry) to wait until finding wi-fi. I think SL should have issued a press release expressing shock that readers didn’t recognize that the exploding rolls (made from a mixture Cook’s Illustrated says is “like napalm”) were obviously an April Fools Day prank. (Note to my B’ham friends: Just kidding.)

Later (back home): Wow. My e-mail post from my Treo worked. Although my thumb typing still leaves something to be desired.

New, old friend: At dinner last night, I told Jeff Jarvis a story from a decade or so ago about how bizarre (in some ways) it was when I met for the first time “in person” some people I had come to know via an interactive listserv. My “offline” experiences with fellow bloggers, however, have all been delightful. Reading each-other’s blog for months before meeting causes the first conversation to have an inverse-shape to the typical first conversation - jumping straight to the hard questions. I quizzed Jeff (rudely, perhaps) about some the more personal, emotional experiences he’s blogged about right off the bat and waited until much later to ask those normal early questions like, “where’d you go to school?”

It will come as no surprise to anyone who reads his blog, Jeff Jarvis is a delightful, engaging individual. While our vocations mean we know dozens of the same people and have followed lots of the same news in the magazine publishing industry, I doubt we would have ever crossed paths without our weblogs. And I wouldn’t have such a great new, old friend. (Later: What he said.)