Oops: Don’t you just hate it when an advertiser mistakenly
prints the wrong URL in an ad it runs in your magazine and the wrong
URL just happens to belong to a kiddie porn website? Well, MediaWeek is reporting
that Fairchild will pull the remaining copies of the 680,000 of YM Your
Prom off newsstands after Studio 17, a prom-dress advertiser,
mistakenly printed such an address in two of its six ad pages.
Meanwhile, Hearst Magazines, publisher of Teen Prom, that is also
carrying the Studio 17 pages, said it will not pull its copies off
newsstands.

(via: Adrants)

Flugrass: After touting it last
week, I was disappointed not to make it to some of last weekend’s
SPBGMA convention. Now, I guess I should be thankful.

Intoxicating success: I knew I was a fan of iPodLounge…but that was before I knew they were drunk with success. Maybe Rafat Ali can explain why Apple made a magazine change its name from iPod World
while iPod Lounge can get away with their’s? Now that the secret is out
on their drunken success, will Apple lawyers go after them?

Inflation: Fortune says Forbes ad-page claims are, well, fiction. Forbes says it was a “clerical error.” Writing in Wired News, Adam Penenberg says, “This Forbes scandal, as minor as it may be, points to a larger problem in publishing: the lack of accountability. There is no independent organization entrusted with compiling data on magazine ads. Instead, companies like TNS and PIB rely on the material that the magazines provide them. It wasn’t an ombudsman or independent auditor who caught Forbes. It was a competitor.”

I say, people who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones.

Later: Today, I’m visiting some nice folks at a really cool
(as in, freezing) place and won’t be able to blog until later. Also, if
you’ve tried to e-mail me, well, there’s something about proxy servers
and configurations and, well, short version: I’ll answer you later.