Daily Archives: Monday, April 12, 2004

Time marches on: Perhaps my favorite unanticipated benefit from maintaining this weblog is the “memory well” it provides me when I “recollect” something from the past that is connected to something “new.” For example, the Advertising Age article that I … Continue reading →

Scary Nashville news: Speaking of BoingBoing, we’re it not for that weblog, I would not know about this priceless collection of country music wax figures up for sale on eBay. (Warning, the eBay page includes a really bad MIDI version … Continue reading →

The whole money & weblogs thing: This week I’ll be posting a few more items than usual about blogging as a business. (I know: I can no longer claim I don’t blog about bloggin.) On Saturday, I’ll be attending Bloggercon … Continue reading →

Detritus Magazine: Gee. This New Yorker Talk of the Town piece about the editorial process used by Stanford students producing the annual parody issue of The Stanford Chaparral sounds like a typical week at Hammock Publishing. This year, those whacky … Continue reading →

Bang-up good time I’m trying to imagine one of the attendees of this magazine-sponsored event informing her husband and kids know why she’s coming to Nashville for Easter weekend.

Product placement: I’ll be commenting later today about this article in Advertising Age about how advertisers are trying to influence the editorial decisions of magazines (is this new?) and how magazines are agreeing to do so (is this new?). Quote: … Continue reading →

This land’s name is our name: The NYT’s David Carr has a story in today’s paper about two magazines that use a form of America in their names. He doesn’t mention that the very first magazine in America was called … Continue reading →