Blogs about magazines: I’m beginning to feel less and less lonely. Here’s a new weblog about magazines, BlogMagazine.com. (I know it sounds like a magazine about blogs, but it’s a blog about magazines.) I’ve added it to my blogroll of “weblogs about magazines, marketing and media.” Now that their numbers are growing, when I get a chance, I will break out “weblogs about magazines” into its own category.
BlogMagazine.com is a business-blog provided by Magazines.com, the oldest and largest online subscription agent.
By the way, BlogMagazine.com also gets added to my Nashville blogroll as the company’s headquarters are in Franklin (Coolsprings area).
Quote:
Our purpose is to keep consumers up to date on the latest magazines and also educate consumers on the value of subscribing to their favorite magazines.
Barking up the wrong palm tree: Gosh. This is the first time I’ve seen a list of dog names that didn’t include “Rex.”
Designer hacks: Okay, designers. Don’t say I never link to anything special just for you, because here’s a cool “designer toolbox” including a Lorem Ipsum Generator. Now I can start that new blog I’ve always wanted to. The one where every post goes something like this:
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(via: del.icio.us/merlinmann)
Magazines that are beginning to understand blogging: After being quoted in an article in this month’s Folio:
about magazines and blogging, I’ve been asked to point to some examples
of magazines that understand how to “engage in the conversation.” So,
in addition to keeping the “magazines that blog” blogroll (on the
left), when I run across them, I’ll point to examples, big and small,
of a magazine that “gets it.”
My first example is Popoular Mechanics.
First, they’re using the most prominent real estate of their homepage
for “The PM Blog.” (The format could be improved with comments on the
front page and what? no permalinks?) However, what really impressed me
was the “Welcome message” to visitors (an instalanche, for example)
from some A-List blogs that are linking to an article about 9/11 myths.
This is one of the first examples of I’ve seen where a blogger-oriented
“converation” has migrated from the magazine’s blog, to a page on which
a magazine article is posted. (However, many magazines have allowed
comments on stories for years.)
If you run across a magazine-blog nexus example or magazines that blogs to add to my blogroll, please e-mail me.
(via: instapundit.com)
Update: Gee, I’m glad I posted this on 2/15 as on 2/16 fellow Alabama native Elizabeth Spiers uses PM to make a similar point. However, in her case, she makes the point better and more than seven people are reading it.
The value of Michael Wolff’s opinion: Vanity Fair’s Michael Wolff thinks blogs “lower the value of all information.” I assume he’s referring to the rexblog.
On why he doesn’t want to blog:
“When
I look at that particular blog piece of software I react viscerally. I
said, “Oh, I don’t want this. I don’t want to be part of this.” There’s
that scene in “Doctor Zhivago” where the professionals and the
intelligentsia are reduced to having to walk with the hoi polloi, and
that’s what I feel when I’m forced into this blog stuff.
So
I want to take what I think of as a noble and principled stand in
saying that I’m not going to be part of this blog stuff. And I’m going
to insist upon this until I am washed away.”
It’s been my experience that information is nearly always without value. However, wisdom is priceless.
And wisdom is usually found when you walk with the hoi polloi.
(From: I Want Media)
Are bloggers paparatzi? Mark Cuban tells his fellow-famous that political bloggers are like paparatizi who believe this is “pay back” time for being shut out in the past:
“The bloggers are here, and they are ready to
knock down the gates and get their pound of flesh. The traditional
media has no idea what is about to hit them. In every major conference
, at every major speech, sitting at tables in restaurants, there
is going to be a blogger or podcaster with microphone, PDA, Videophone
, laptop or paper and pencil in hand. Listening. Taking notes. That
information is going to be transmitted to and from a blog entry and
placed in the hands of “the readers”.”
How to cope?
“Recognize them. Give them
respect. Celebrities cant keep photographers out of their bushes no
matter how hard they try. The gatekeepers wont be able to keep the
bloggers out either. Instead they should invite them in. Not 1. Not 2.
But several from both sides. Bring in the more popular blogs that like
you, and the same number of those that dont. Give them as much access
as you give the NY Times, Wash Post. Dont muzzle them, let them write.”
Flash backs: I’m with Rafat on news like BA Ventures raising $400 million, $150 million of which is designated for consumer digital media: everything old is new again. Please, this time around: no foosball tables.
