links for 2008-05-14

Quote – “Whether or not you’re personally interested in traveling in an airplane with folding wings that doubles as a road-worthy automobile, quite a few private pilots are.” [My 2008 resolution: More links to flying car items.]

Quote – The new titles illustrate not only the continuing possibilities of niche magazines but also offer a window into the lives of those who put them together.

A “how we did it piece” by Budget Travel magazine’s editor Erik Torkells on the special 10th anniversary issue. Quote – “Editing reader content for a magazine is harder than it looks.”

I rarely point to items related to the buying, selling, starting, stopping, hiring and firing of the magazine industry — unless it actually is news. This is.

Wow. I’m amazed by the simplicity of this idea. Scan all your membership cards into your iPhone to thin down your wallet. A bar code reader can read your the numbers from your iPhone. (via lifehacker.com)