City St Georgeās
[http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/assets_c/2014/02/jYpPBkIL10xyws71-3530.html] Iām at City University all today, working with the Magazine and Interactive Journalism MAs. At one of the workshops that follow Paul [http://onlinejournalismblog.com/]ās lectures, the students have to put up ideas for short talks on a
consumer magazines
[http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/assets_c/2014/02/country-walking-ipad-3514.html] Just came across this explanation of why hobby magazines no longer have broad appeal [http://www.walkhighlands.co.uk/news/outdoor-magazines-have-they-had-their-day/009268/] , by a former editor of various outdoor magazine titles: > So why does someone with a long-term
bath test
Dropping your Apple tablet into the bath water is a lot more expensive that dropping a magazine. Does this sleeve solve the issue?
bundling
[https://i2.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2013/07/image.jpg] Don Brown on tablet magazine editions [http://donbrownsblog.wordpress.com/2013/07/22/will-digital-save-print/]: > Where publishers are seeing interesting stats is with ābundledā subscriptions. What seems to be happening is that the digital version deepens these
Blogs
Private Frazerās Doomed Magazines is five years old [http://privatefraser.wordpress.com/2013/03/12/five-years-down/]. At this rate it might out-live the industry: > Actually, of course publishing will survive, but in five years time there will be fewer titles and fewer big companies. Magazines will continue to
commuting
[](http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/Photo 1 Nov 2012 20:43.jpg) Once upon a time, when I had time to kill in a station before catching a train, I used to browse the
feeds
[http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/assets_c/2012/08/in-my-pocket-ipad-2720.html] In 2001, when I first became aware of blogging and RSS feeds, I used to speculate about magazines of the future, built of feeds which allowed you to select the reporters, reviewers and commenters that mattered to you. In
B2B
This is an interesting move [http://www.journalism.co.uk/news/briefing-media-buys-ubm-health-and-farming-titles-for-10m/s2/a547731/] : > Business-to-business publisher United Business Media (UBM) is to sell its UK farming and medical titles to Briefing Media, the owner of TheMediaBriefing, for Ā£10 million. So, Briefing Media, an online and events business up until
farmers weekly
[http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/assets_c/2011/02/PW-4-1869.html] Iām a sucker for the history of our titles, and I often think itās a shame that we donāt do more with the vast archives some of our magazines have developed. So [this blog post](http:
apple
A couple of interesting links, that make an excellentĀ *aperitifĀ *to my last post: - [The Newsonomics of Apple/Press+/Googleās pay-for-all](http://www.niemanlab.org/2011/02/the-newsonomics-of-the-applegooglepress-pay-for-all/)Ā ā nice breakdown of the key issues around the Apple subs model, publishersā reaction to it and the relevance of the
community care
Love this simple, graphic cover on this weekās Community Care [http://www.communitycare.co.uk/Home/]: [](https://i1.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2011/02/5415130641_
covers
Lovely video of a cover illustration being created: We need more really great magazine covers. [via A Hundred Dance Moves Per Minute [http://sgrblog.blogspot.com/2011/01/bob-staake.html]]