It’s been a tough week for print media… the bloggers have been ganging up on them again. First I stumbled across this TechCrunch piece - If “Real Journalism” Fails As A Business, Should Government Step In? It actually was an interesting read - it talked about whether the tough times print media is having now [...]

Categories: blogs · hubris · magazines · rant

This short techdirt piece is worth reading. It has always stunned me when people and organizations fight to stay out of google, or feel that google owes them something. A stunning amount of traffic is driven to sites by google, companies are fighting tooth and nail to show higher on the results pages and some [...]

Categories: magazines

As someone who works with magazines quite a bit, I was interested to read that Wikia has launched three open magazine sites. Inspired by the success of Wikipedia, these sites are designed to be a forum for people to write more editorial/opinion pieces on the subjects (the broad subjects being politics, entertainment and local community) [...]

Categories: magazines · open content · wiki