the philosophers’ magazine has a trial issue with a special feature on Poverty and Duty
- Tony Blair’s guru
- Why we/you should be doing more about people with less
- Philosophy rocks with Mylo
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Portfolio is a big new business magazine from Conde Nast. Jeff Jarvis today has an intriguing preview on his BuzzMachine. The magazine itself is not out until next week, and there is then a big gap (advertising dictated) until the second issue in August, when the magazine will become monthly. It looks like its playing in the same general space as Monocle (blogged yesterday), but my sense is that it will be more businessy, perhaps a little less … Keep Reading
Monocle is one of the most interesting magazine launches of recent years. It is inspired by Tyler Brûlé, whose previous magazine launch was Wallpaper*
Monocle has a very strong visual design (as one would expect from a Brûlé concept). Black as a cover, which gives it a strong contrast on the news stand. It is also a very ambitious editorial project (as one would expect). It is particularly interesting in the way the web service includes broadcast and is … Keep Reading
Magazines are born and magazines die. That is part of a healthy market. Andrew Losowsky has a nostalgia piece in today’s Independent about his ten favourite magazines that have died in the last 50 years. Its a good list. I remember reading or looking at most of them, but not Sniffin’ Glue (which unsurprisingly had a short life — 1976-77) and two of them, Lilliput and Picture Post had died before I got interested in magazines. We can think … Keep Reading
PaidContent has a report on a gloomy review of the newspaper and magazine industry’s reaction to the web. There is also a link to the International Herald Tribune’s report on the Magazine 2.0 Conference — a satelite event to CEBIT.
It is quite extraordinary that some publishers are developing a digital strategy just because they feel the need to respond to advertiser’s expectations.
… Keep Reading“We are making a lot of sales online, but over all we are still making a loss,”