Background - from online to print: My earlier post regarding the blogging-to-print plans of alwayson-network.com has generated some comments regarding the web-to-print phenomenon (notably, Jeff Jarvis who’s humbling me with his link-kindness on another topic.).

As I’ve blogged this topic in the past. (I am, after all the Boswell of slick print), let me refer folks to an article written by my Hammock Publishing colleague Jackie Ross. “From Online to Print: Web Companies Make the Connection.” It offers some background on the history of web-based properties that have attempted to cross over to the tree-killing side.

Also, here’s a link to a long-ago Doc Searls post on the topic. Also related is this post about Swish magazine and this post about Worthwhile Magazine.

Bottom line: The web-to-print-back-to-web-and-then-again-to-print is not new. It even has a name.

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Breath of new vapor: I e-mailed my anonymous vaporzine scout a thanks for the Red Hat Society news in the previous post and challenged him-or-her to send me another vaporzine I was not aware of, and, just like that, he-or-she sends me a link to Breathe Magazine.

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More from B’ham: Just the other day, I blogged a vaporzine radar ping about a new title from Birmingham-based publisher, Hoffman Media. Now comes news (thanks to a vaporzine spotter who wishes to remain anonymous) that the publisher will launch a subscription-newsstand magazine for the women’s organization Red Hat Society

Quote from press release:

“We are delighted to spread the message that 50 and over is an exciting time in a woman’s life,” says Barbara Cockerham, editor of the new publication. “We believe that Red Hat Society Lifestyle, highlighting the fun, is the ideal platform for that message.”

(Note to my geek friends: You may find it surprising that the Red Hat Society has nothing to do with Linux.)