Top 10 list of “most viewed” NYT articles of 2005: Duh? It was an election year, and so, of course the #1 most-viewed article would be about the sex-trafficking trade.

(via: ResourceShelf)

iSheep: I just bought mine. (via: The many people who have has e-mailed it to me as a joke. You can stop, now.)

Adding up: Reuters is reporting Gruner + Jahr USA is suing an independent circulation agent for providing faulty subscription data that could cause several of its titles to fall short of their guarantees to advertisers.

Quote:

G+J said it found that the subscription agent, Publishers Communication Systems Inc., did not provide sufficient documentation for subscription orders it submitted for a number of G+J titles in second-half 2003 and early 2004, causing 165,000 subscriptions to be classified as unpaid for 2003 by industry auditors.

emailless: The Hammock Publishing mail server has been down most of the day, something I can never recall happening. (Perhaps it’s because I encouraged its keeper to experiment with running it on an iPod Shuffle.) Anyway, the result is almost like a snow day here: What can one do without e-mail? It’s working now.

Brush with blogness: Guess who Robin Williams finally got to meet yesterday? Doc Searls.

Think Differently: A funny mash-up of Apple’s “Think Different” manifesto (”Here’s to the crazy ones.”) and, well, just see for yourself. (Update: Bad link fixed)

(via: Patrick Rufinni who, after reading the entire “Think Different” text, says, “a lot of it fits.”)

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Magazine-owned blogs: I’ve added some new magazine-owned-and-operated weblogs to the related blogroll category on the left of each page of the rexblog. (Also, I’m adding new Nashville blogs as Bill Hobbs discovers them.) Yesterday, BusinessWeek launched some, as blogged by Steve Rubel:

“The Tech Beat,” a blog covering the innovations, trends, and dustups in the
world of technology, is written by BusinessWeek Online’s Jim Kerstetter and
Olga Kharif, and BusinessWeek Magazine’s Stephen
Baker, Peter Burrows, Steve Hamm, and Rob Hof. “Deal Flow” is a blog where BusinessWeek Magazine’s Justin Hibbard
and Online’s Sarah Lacy comment on dealings inside the venture capital
community.

Also there’s a personal finance/investing one called Well Spent and a marketing-advertising one called Brand New Day.

While BusinessWeek offers several RSS feeds, and, I’m sure there are individual feeds to each blog, I’m having trouble easily locating them; perhaps they should add an RSS or XML icon to the page.

Quick reviews: All are great previews of “what magazines will be doing with blogs.”

Know of other magazine-owned blogs. Email me and I’ll add them to my blogroll.

Geezerzine: I was going to only add this to my link blog, but I felt some (we won’t mention who) may find the vaporzine announcement of interest:

CHICAGO, Jan. 12 /PRNewswire/ — GeezerJock Media LLC announced today that it is launching GeezerJock magazine (in March), a groundbreaking Masters sports and fitness publication that is the first to cover the broad spectrum of serious senior athletics for people 40-and-over. The quarterly magazine also has a companion Web site at www.geezerjock.com.