9 days ago
philgyford : Newspapers and magazines - Digital National library of Serbia - Scanned and browsable issues, from the avant-garde 'Zenit' to 'Advanced Beekeeping'. Awesome (especially if you read Serbian).
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Andy Baio : MagCloud, magazines printed on demand from a PDF - Derek Powazek's new venture with HP Labs; upload a PDF and you pick the markup
philgyford : MagCloud - Self-publishing, publish-on-demand magazines. Send a PDF, and they handle printing, delivery, subscriptions, etc. Seems such an obvious idea now Derek Powazek and co have done this. (via Daring Fireball)
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6 month ago
philgyford : Condé Nast set for a flurry of launches - Brand Republic News - Brand Republic - Apparently planning a UK edition of 'Wired'. Hahahahaha Boohoohoohoo. (via Haddock)
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8 month ago
philgyford : Stephanie Merritt: Small is beautiful - the best new journals | Review | The Observer - Literary journals. (via MeFi)
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11 month ago
deusx : Jim Minatel: ASP.NET, XML, CSS, Ajax Book Editor: Wrox Blox launches with Silverlight, Adobe AIR, IPhone and LINQ - "Wrox Blox are short, electronic-only, downloadable, and typically going to be on hot cutting edge topics. For short, these first few range from about 20-40 pages ... And, here's something I think you'll find cool: they're DRM free."
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11 month ago
deusx : The Changing Publishing Landscape - Introducing Wrox Blox » Chris Webb on Publishing, Media, and Technology - "Today we have launched Wrox Blox, a new product for programmers that hopefully will strike a chord with a market that often looks to the web for fast, bite-sized content."
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11 month ago
deusx : Wrox::Wrox Blox - "Excited about new technology? Stumped on a problem? Trying to keep up with new software releases but don't have time to read an entire book? Then Wrox Blox are the answer!"
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11 month ago
philgyford : Zzap Zzuperstore - Complete scanned versions of every issue of Crash!, Zzap! 64, C&VG, etc, etc. I bought Crash! and Sinclair User. Brilliant. I feel 13 again. (via Haddock)
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12 month ago
plasticbag : Via Dan Hill, I come across Jossip's list of the amount of advertising in magazines. Only 13% of Vogue's last issue was editorial. - I post this mainly to suggest that for the moment at least there's a fair amount of money in the advertising industry and that we don't have to worry too much about the Internet collapsing for lack of money in the short-term at least...
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16 month ago
jimray : 8020 Publishing has an official response to the JPG mag flap - I dunno, sounds kinda corporate-ish and wonky. Not exactly the best way to tell your side of the story to a pissed off community, upon who's support your business depends
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16 month ago
Andy Baio : Derek and Heather leave JPG Magazine - erased out of existence by the company they started [via]
jimray : Derek Powazek and Heather Champ leave JPG magazine - Their partner at 8020 decided to rewrite the history of the mag so they left. Sad, indeed, but can't wait to see what they do next.
Eric Meyer : The Real Story of JPG Magazine - Sad, sad, sad.
nelson : The real story of JPG magazine - Founder troubles mean the ouster of the original JPG magazine editors
plasticbag : Derek Powazek on "The Real Story of JPG Magazine" - Derek provides his side of the story about how he left the company that he co-founded, and the reasons behind it.
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17 month ago
jimray : Paul Ford rethinks Harpers.org - 157 years worth of archives, clever topics system, all yours for the low low price of $17/yr, plus you get a dead tree edition
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18 month ago
Khoi Vinh : New <em>Time Magazine</em> Design by Pentagram - Nicely done, thanks to their recently added partner, magazine designer extraordinaire Luke Hayman. Though does anyone read Time any longer?
jimray : New TIME design launches, rethought by Pentagram - Looks really sharp, not sharp enough to make me subscribe to TIME, though
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18 month ago
jimray : Project Red Stripe - The Economist sets up a skunkworks project to come up with a Next Big Thing by July. They've got a staff of six and $200,000
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18 month ago
jimray : New Yorker redesigns - I mostly like it, sorta Morning Newsish, but really, you just can't wait to read what Kottke thinks
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18 month ago
philgyford : GOOD Magazine | Goodmagazine - The 51 Best* Magazines Ever - Ones I liked, or wish I'd read: Wired ('93-'98), Colors, Might, The Face (1980s), Ray Gun ('92-'96).
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18 month ago
philgyford : PrintFetish - Weblog about magazines, zines, small press books, etc.
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21 month ago
jimray : Wired News: So. Many. Letters - Wired got so many responses to the athiesm piece, they're starting a blog to post every letter
deusx : Wired News: So. Many. Letters - "You all just started calmly talking. And talking. And talking. We got more responses to this article than to any piece in memory. Brimstone quotient: low."
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27 month ago
merlinmann : The Week Magazine - Subscribed on DA's recommendation. Summary of the week's news by showing how it was covered. Fast way to get up to speed on intl. and financial headlines.
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29 month ago
jkottke : Philips is paying Time Inc to put the table of contents in some of their magazines on page 1 - As part of their "simplicity" ad campaign, Philips is paying Time Inc to put the table of contents in some of their magazines on page 1 (the TOC is typically further into the magazine in a more irritating position). It's funny that there was concern about
jimray : WSJ.com - Philips and Time Inc. Agree to Keep It Simple - Philips is paying Time $5 million to put the table of contents of several magazines on page 1, where it belongs
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30 month ago
jimray : The Real Paul Jones » Geek Irony at NewsWeek - Rad
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30 month ago
jimray : Paste Magazine :: Home - I keep forgetting to subscribe to this and unsubscribe from Spin
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32 month ago
plasticbag : Time Out London's website appears to have increased in quality dramatically over the last few months - And now the site has all of the Time Out Film Guide's reviews on it as well. I'm not sure it's the most beautiful site in the world, but it's certainly now one of the most useful for Londoners...
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32 month ago
jimray : Red Letter: The Ruby Journal - $60/yr seems a bit steep (that's more than I pay for The New Yorker) but interesting all the same
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