Monthly Archives: July 2004

Pulling together

Pulling together: National Country Market, an ad rep firm representing a network of magazines read by consumers of electric cooperatives is marking its 10th anniversary today. Quote from the press release: NCM… represents one of the largest circulating magazine groups … Continue reading

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Right branding

Right branding: The official magazine of the organization USA Hockey will be getting a new name this month. It will now be called USA Hockey Magazine instead of American Hockey Magazine. According to the press release, the magazine is distributed … Continue reading

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This resource is your resource, this resource is my resource

This resource is your resource, this resource is my resource: The Music Library Association’s “Copyright for Music Librarians” resource, especially the “Socratic FAQs: “Scenarios and guidance about general copyright provisions, reserves, preservation, performance rights, issues for composers and authors, and … Continue reading

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Delayed

Delayed: I’d like to thank the fine folks at the Newark International Airport for providing wi-fi. While it cost $7 a day, it’s worth it when your flight is delayed for four hours due to the fact that someone heard … Continue reading

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Market share of what?

Market share of what? According to the NYPost, a Time Inc. spokeswoman says that a free preview issue of All You now slated to start landing in Wal-Mart stores today is only a “a sample issue” designed to build market … Continue reading

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An upscale Lucky?

An upscale Lucky? According to the NYPost’s Keith Kelly, Conde Nast is considering starting a culture magazine and would like to purchase Forbes (but they can’t get anyone at Forbes to say, “hi.”)

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Another blog-lite day:

Another blog-lite day: I am enjoying a gathering of my colleagues from the world of custom publishing today and then head back to Nashville so I doubt I’ll be blogging much. Or, who knows: perhaps the wi-fi gods will embrace … Continue reading

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Identity crisis

Identity crisis: This press release announcing a vaporzine in Canada called “Q” makes for some entertaining reading. It sounds like it was issued after the partaking of mushrooms.

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JFKs

JFKs: I try. I try really hard. I try really hard to eschew the political comments on this weblog as there is more than enough weblog server space devoted to that topic. But there was just something about that salute … Continue reading

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Make mook

Make mook: Mark Frauenfelder, one of the BoingBoing gang announced today that Make, a magazine/book (or Mook, as the Japanese — and now, the rexblog — call it), will launch in January. Mark will be editor-in-chief. O’Reilly is the publisher … Continue reading

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Finally. A magazine blog

Finally. A magazine blog: I was just thinking to myself: There needs to be a weblog about magazines. And what do you know? I see that MediaBistro is about to launch one. Great idea. It should save me a lot … Continue reading

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Up in smoke

Up in smoke: Favorite quote of the day about Ricky Williams (from The Sports Network): Williams, who suffers from social-anxiety disorder and was a former spokesperson for the anti-depressant Paxil, claimed marijuana helped him once he had to stop using … Continue reading

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Did we say ‘decline’? We meant sublime!

Did we say ‘decline’? We meant sublime! Favorite editor’s update note on a news story today, from fool.com: “Editor’s note: In the first version of this article published on July 27, McGraw-Hill’s Education Unit was characterized as “very much in … Continue reading

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Travel morning.

Travel morning: Blogging lite today…and via Treo.

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Jupiter Research’s Fuzzy Math

Jupiter Research’s Fuzzy Math: Since the Jupiter Research online ad do-over prediction is getting picked up by every newsite on the planet, I’ve decided to rant on it some more. You’ll recall the prediction: Online advertising to overtake magazine advertising … Continue reading

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