I hate it when this happens: Hilarious (unless it happens to you) meme of the day, via: Joi Ito.

The FCC as marketing partner: I didn’t watch Monday Night Football, but yesterday I was on one of those airlines where you can watch 22 channels of cable TV so I channel-surfed for three hours and saw the “Desperate Housewives” towel-dropping promo repeated, on-average, once every 10 minutes on the three news channels available. Mark Cuban, who besides being a billionaire and heavily-fined NBA-basketball team-owner, is one of the wittiest bloggers I subscribe to, has coined a term for the network-planned-controversy designed to get replayed over-and-over: the “Apologevent.”

A formal explanation: Steve wants to know how I missed a vaporzine mention of the magazine TUX that is launching next February and was blogged yesterday by Doc. The answer is, I’m at a hotel on a sunny beach in south Florida and when I’m not in a conference room, I’m, well, not checking my RSS feeds. The magazine is “the one and only magazine for the new Linux user.” Unless there is something called “New Linux,” I assume the magazine is for new users of Linux. I also assume the name is a clever play on the mascot of Linux.

Search for scholars: To help balance the previous post, here’s a Google search service for scholars. (via: lots of places)

Update: Resourceshelf says, “Wow!” and explains what Google is doing.

Magazines for dummies: Here’s news about new mini-magazines for dummies. I’ll let you supply your own punch lines. (via: iwantmedia.com)

This just in: Print has a future, experts say. Whew. Thank god for those experts. (source: MediaPost.com)

Blog lite day: I’m in very interesting (no, really) meetings all day. I will be blogging, but very lightly.

Custom publishing update: ATP Deuce Magazine, the official magazine of the ATP, will be published by Portland-based Skies America.