Complete Time magazine archive now available online, and it’s free if you pay for it: I ran across this news earlier today via a Google news alert pointing me to a press release on a German website, so I decided to hold off on blogging it until I saw Gary Price point to something more official looking — something I was sure he’d do soon.

That’s impressive: 266,000 articles from over 4,200 issues of the magazine.

According to Time’s
press release, “The archive is available for free to TIME subscribers.”
I guess it is “free” in much the same way as each issue of the print
and online versions of the magazine are free to all those who pay for a
subscription.

“Free to subscribers.” My nomination for Time magazine’s marketing doublespeak of 2004.

We could do without a few things: I don’t know. There’s something about this new 102″ plasma display that reminds me of the following passage from Ray Bradbury’s Farenheit 451:

“It’ll
be even more fun when we can afford to have the fourth (wall-TV)
installed. How long you figure before we save up and get the fourth
wall torn out and fourth wall-TV put in? It’s only two thousand dollars.

“That’s one-third of my yearly pay.”

“It’s
only two thousand dollars,” she replied. “And I should think you’d
consider me sometimes. If we had a fourth wall, why it’d be just like
this room wasn’t ours at all, but all kinds of exotic people’s rooms.
We could do without a few things.”

“We’re already doing without a few things to pay for the third wall. It was put in only two months ago, remember?”

“Is that all it was?”

(via: BoingBoing)

UPDATE: Resonate-gate

Bluegrassroots citizen journalists: It may not be Rathergate, but Banjo Bob, the owner-webmaster of Cybergrass is providing a casebook example of what citizen journalism is all about. I’ve been blogging it for several days because I want folks to see a great example of citizens’ journalism that is not about politics or national policy but is about a scam in the most unexpected of places: the bluegrass music community.

Here is today’s report in which Banjo Bob reports an impressive amount of detail he’s rounded up.

Past rexblog “resonate-gate” posts: Saturday, December 18, 2004; Friday, December 17, 2004.

It’s time Banjo Bob get some link love for his efforts.

Update: Bill McCloskey of MediaPost.com, by way of a comment on this post, alerts us to a story he did on this topic last week. Great story on the e-mail angle of this scam. Coincidentally (in a very weird way), longtime readers of this blog know that I link to MediaPost.com more than any other place on the Internet. While Michael Shields is the writer to whom I link to most these days, Larry Dobrow used to cover magazines for MediaPost and once I threw in this very “inside bluegrass” remark on a post:

“Larry Dobrow (does he know Jerry Douglas?) reports…”

Upside down: Recognizing that I’m falling down on the blog today (life happens), the anonymous vaporzine scout gave up on me and sent me a link to this story about the launch of InsideOut, a new bimonthly magazine that will showcase architecture, design, furnishings, decor, gardens and entertaining throughout Florida, plus the Caribbean. No doubt it is targeted for the category we call around here, the nouveau niche.

rexblog 2005 prediction #1: In the next couple of weeks, I’ll be previewing next year with some predictions. My first one is that the folks at O, the Oprah Magazine, have decided to test their theory that if one Oprah on the cover works, then two Oprahs on the cover will double their success. In February, look for three Oprahs. And by next December, look for Oprah dressed as Santa with 11 tiny Oprah reindeer and Oprah elves surrounding her.

(via: iwantmedia.com)