Category Archives: magazines

Yes, the web and mobile apps are like TV shows (and magazines)

Posted on Tuesday, April 24, 2012 by Rex Hammock

Over the weekend, the smart and successful VC Fred Wilson used the metaphor of TV shows vs. TV networks to suggest that investors (and the rest of us) sometime (often?) confuse the significance of various kinds of web-based startups. Anyone … Continue reading →

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Isn’t fumbling iPad opportunities the favorite pastime of magazine publishers?

Posted on Thursday, April 12, 2012 by Rex Hammock

From an article today, April 12, 2012, on the website, Digiday, titled, Magazines Fumble the iPad Opportunity: “I don’t think there’s anything magazine-like out there that’s really resonating or working,” said Khoi Vinh, former design director for The New York … Continue reading →

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The future of magazines should look like magazines

Posted on Tuesday, March 27, 2012 by Rex Hammock

Here’s one of those posts that seems to confuse people. They don’t understand how someone can embrace digital content as I do — but not embrace the notion that the print magazine format is endangered. Here’s a hint to understanding … Continue reading →

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It’s the words and photos, not bells and whistles, that make reading-media work

Posted on Wednesday, August 3, 2011 by Rex Hammock

If I had time, I’d write a post that would reflect on what Patricio Robles says here and what Khoi Vinh said here. Short version (and, with apologies, some inside baseball): Condé Nast’s most successful magazine iPad app is the … Continue reading →

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I wonder what young Jann Wenner would say

Posted on Monday, May 30, 2011 by Rex Hammock

When I read this Ad Age interview with Jann Wenner, I thought of all the iconic photography of him from the late 1960s and early 1970s, much of it shot by Annie Leiboviz. Click on that photo of he and … Continue reading →

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