Monthly Archives: May 2004

People-to-people solutions: Thanks to Jeff Jarvis for helping me learn more about the work of Spirit of America (You can learn more in Dan Gillmor’s Sunday column about it.} Frankly, as someone who reads a fair amount of history, especially … Continue reading →

Is Google bad for business (to business publishers)? A big chunk of Google‘s revenue is business-to-business advertising dollars. What is the dramatic growth of such online advertising expenditures doing to traditional print-based business-to-business publishers? Frankly, no one knows the answers … Continue reading →

Moon-writing: When Kate White isn’t doing editor-in-chief stuff at Cosmopolitan magazine, she writes bestselling murder mysteries in which the “spunky sleuth” is a crime writer for a Cosmo-like magazine. (via iwantmedia.com)

Give it to her, or give up: Martha Stewart will ask for community service, says Newsweek (via Bloomberg). If this weblog were the judge or prosecutor, this weblog would jump at the chance to settle in this way vs. the … Continue reading →

P&G’s new custom magazine is yellow journalism: MediaDaily News’ Michael Shields reports that Procter & Gamble is testing in the U.K. a new magazine for mothers called Mustard. (Not to be confused with this Mustard Magazine.) Quote: We are always … Continue reading →

Vaporzine weekly? In an adjective-rich story, Folio: reports that David Bradley, chairman and owner of Atlantic Media, is “actively researching the prospect of creating” a national weekly news magazine. (“Actively researching the prospect of creating.” Parse that. While I can’t … Continue reading →

Hammock man update: To answer the flood of e-mails asking me (okay, the one e-mail asking me), I will not be blogging another meeting with the President tonight. While he is currently a few blocks away from rexblog headquarters and … Continue reading →

What magazines do the candidates’ backers read? Proving once more that most research provides little insight, a recent study from a company I won’t embarass by naming, came up with this gem: the top five magazines read by the two … Continue reading →

Reminder – Nashville to honor WW II veterans: Don’t forget, if you’re in Middle-Tennessee, please spread the word about a very special event honoring World War II veterans this Saturday, May 29, at the National Guard Armory (near 100 Oaks) … Continue reading →

Friendly disagreement: Rexblog friend Buzzmachine thinks rexblog friend Micro Persuasion’s blog-only experiment is a bogus PR gimmick. It’s a good thing that rexblog friend Micro Persuasion is a PR guy and despite its bogosity, the gimmick is getting lots of, … Continue reading →

Compulsive? For some reason, people are sending me e-mails with a link to this NY Times story (subscription blah, blah) about compulsive bloggers. Okay. You can stop sending them.

When this guy talks, listen: When it comes to the whole blogging thing, this weblog considers the Washington Post’s Dan Froomkin perhaps the most “gets-it” in-the-trenches journalist employed by a print-dominated media company. (Okay. We’ll admit the fact that he’s … Continue reading →