Election prediction: As it is one week to go before the election, I wanted to place into the rexblog record my prediction for the results next Tuesday. I’m not doing this to debate the potential outcome or to defend my prediction, rather it is a public declaration insuring that I can crow, or eat crow, eight nights from now.

Popular vote: Bush 52%, Kerry 48%
Electoral vote: Bush 291, Kerry 247

Chances I’ll be glad this election is over no matter who wins: 100%

Off the what? Sorry I’m not attending the MPA meeting to prove personally what a silly notion it is to think Bill Clinton could speak to a magazine group and want to keep it “off the record.”

Frank Barnako’s channeling Dvorak: Until I figured out that John Dvorak’s columns were merely flame-bait attempts to get noticed, I would actually let them steam me. Now, apparently Frank Barnako at cbs.marketwatch.com (sorry, I’m not going to link-love the registration-walled article) is flame-baiting in-bound references by slamming iPodding (he can’t get the software to work) and Steve Rubel (he’s presumptuous for endorsing a candidate — I don’t think he was presumptuous, just wrong in his choice), both in one column. Lighten up on the caffine, Frank.

(via: Jeff Jarvis)

Ahhhh. That explains it: Mary Hodder has figured out why a link to the rexblog is blogrolled on the earlier referenced new weblog, Monolo’s Shoe Blog. Rex says, that Monolo blogger is one super fantastic (and funny) in-link strategist for pinging the referral-log-obsessed folks on Doc Searls’ blogroll. For kicks, watch what happens in the coming days to the Technorati in-bound links numbers for the weblog: At this posting (10/25/04, 12:10 eastern) Technorati reports 12 links from 12 sources for the blog.

Custom publishing update? This article reports that Avon is launching a 16-page catalog called, “M-The Men’s Catalog,” But all references in the article and the headline refer to it as a magazine. I tried to Google it to link directly to the new magazine, however, the closest I could get is a review of the catalog from a columnist at a local paper in New Jersey.

Polishing the resume: It’s sad, I guess, when a former magazine editor is reduced to taking a job waxing floors. As I don’t really have time to read it, I’m assuming that’s what this story in the NY Post is about as it has the headline: “MACY’S HIRES FOLEY TO BUFF HOME STORE.”

How magazines get started, classic: Today, I get to point to a story that’s a variation of the How magazines get started (continued) feature I’ve started posting recently, however we get to go back into time and learn how Sports Illustrated got started. The format is the same, however: local newspaper feature story, etc. (P.S. It’s in one of those sites that require you to register, however, for educational purposes only, you may want to experiment with a certain website to learn how certain consumers are trying to respond to certain registration requirements.)

Quote:

Bob Cowin of Stuart was working in the Time Inc. circulation department more than half a century ago when he sent a three-page document suggesting that the company start a national sports magazine. Four years later, Sports Illustrated was born. Cowin, 81, still has a copy of the memo in a photo album at his home. He recently was interviewed for a documentary on the 50th anniversary of Sports Illustrated airing at 9 tonight on ESPN.