I nominate McGraw Hill to go first: BusinessWeek “Blogspotting” Stephen Baker says main-stream media should open up their historical archives to all comers.

Panopticist photoshopping: Andrew Hearst has whipped up another one of his humorous magazine covers.

Clone power: I used to have a feature called “clone covers”
that paired Time and Newsweek covers on the weeks when they looked
separated at birth. As both magazines have the same deadline, one can
argue those similarities are simply “great minds thinking alike.”

However, as the cover on the left is from the February Texas Monthly and the cover on the right is from Boston Magazine’s May cover, it’s hard to make the “coincidental great minds” argument.

(via: Romenesko)

Digital editions? This morning, I heard two presentations regarding “digital
versions” of magazines. I’ve blogged the whole “digital
version” thing for a
long time.

Basically, my response to PDF-like versions (souped up PDFs,
granted) of magazines has been, well, one of skepticism. But, hey, if readers are eager to
receive them, knock yourself out.  However, something
about them make we want to suggest their backers spend some time
reflecting on the work of Marshall McLuhan. 

That said, here is today’s “digital edition” of the ABM “show daily” from Folio:       

Bob Metcalf said (at the ABM spring meeting I’m attending): Bob Metcalfe (as in inventor of ethernet and the Metcalfe in “Metcalfe’s Law“) on blogs: “If you want to understand what’s going on with blogs, Google the name ‘Clay Shirky.’

Also, in discussing the way the Internet has “disrupted” newspapers
(surveys show readers think news and information online is more
“timley, relevant and trustworthy), Metcalf said: “Newspapers have
become abusive monopolies and probably deserve what they’re getting.”

(By the way, after he spoke, Metcalf, went to the back of the
auditorium and sat with the folks on the back row… that’s why he’s
sitting next to me to as I write this.)

Next new news search thing: Snap’s newsfilter.com
is a new way to search news allowing a variiety of filtering (date,
source). The interface (at least, to me) appears inspired by the
interface of an RSS newsreader.

A different approach from Google news and others.

(via: John Battelle)