Category Archives: blogs, magazines & journalism

Doc is showing off: Last night right after sunset, I shot a picture out my Nashville office window and posted it here. This morning, Doc Searls shot an awesome pre-dawn photo (I assume from his home). In my photo, I … Continue reading →

A rexblog technical announcement: The rexblog has been “server erroring” all day but some smart folks are doing something that should keep that from happening (I apologize for being so technical with my explanation.). However, the fix may mean some … Continue reading →

Out my window: Many years ago (April 16, 1998, to be exact), some pictures of a tornado taken from my office window ended up being viewed ’round the world by hundreds of thousands of folks. Unfortunately, those pictures are gone … Continue reading →

Magazines to help Japanese women learn english: From Knight Ridder (via the Kansas City Star), comes a story about magazines marketed in Japan for women who want to learn english. Quote: Unlike conventional magazines published for studying English that focus … Continue reading →

The last Martha vulturette update: Longtime rexblog readers (please, no oxymoron jokes) know that I used to have a recurring feature that linked to stories speculating about who the next Martha Stewart would be. (For example, here and here and … Continue reading →

Swag free? Talk about putting a damper on the holidays (second item), Fairchild’s 900 staffers can’t accept gifts from advertisers, sources or vendors this year. (P.S. The item right below it reports that my table-mate-friends (we’ve sat together twice in … Continue reading →

Nashville Mandolin Ensemble Get in the holiday spirit: If you live in Nashville, please promise me you’ll attend at least one of the following two concerts. If you don’t, you might as well live in a town where your neighbors … Continue reading →

Shocking findings! MediaPost’s Michael Shields reports a new study commissioned by the Magazine Publishers of America shows that magazines are without a doubt the most effective advertising medium ever in the entire history of the universe, or something like that. … Continue reading →

Headline of the day: From the “this just in department” comes this headline at MediaPost.com: “Interland: Online Businesses See Benefit To Web”

How magazines get started (continued): Hey, this is a grand idea. I think every city in America should follow Annapolis’ lead. “Households in Annapolis should be getting the second edition of the “City of Annapolis” magazine any day now. Mayor … Continue reading →

Anonymous sources: The anonymous vaporzine scout sends me the following item. However, the anonymous scout isn’t quite sure what the source is. Having thus cleared this blog’s rigorous fact-checking process, here’s the item: Push is a new monthly magazine launching … Continue reading →

Custom publishing, more that just a pretty face: Writing for MarketingProfs.com, Chris Scott explores something close to this blogger’s heart, custom publishing. Quote: If well planned and thought-out, a custom publishing program can go a long way toward supplementing a … Continue reading →

Is Apple ‘sirius-ly’ considering making Jeff Jarvis’ dream gadget? Were it not for the the fact that the 14-year-old in my house watches TV cable channels about video games, I would not know about the rumors flying today (and here … Continue reading →

Double jeopardy: Category: Clueless Multinational Corporations for $100. Answer: This company proved how clueless it is by threatening to sue a blogger for revealing what day Ken Jenning would lose on Jeopardy….Question: What is Sony? Jason Kottke is being threatened … Continue reading →