Today I clicked on an article about how Stephen Hawking says black holes don’t really exist. It attracted my attention because black holes are cool, Stephen Hawking is smart, and he’s one of the people who got everybody interested in them in the first place. Unfortunately, Hawking didn’t really say black holes don’t exist. He …
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I just got a marketing solicitation disguised to look like a letter from the Department of Motor Vehicles — demanding my immediate action. Of course if it was from the DMV I would take care of it right away, but as soon as I found out it’s a deception I wanted to find the marketer …
I have an old clothes dryer that just keeps going, although every once in a while I need to do a minor repair. Recently I had to get a new idler pulley. It’s a cheap part that’s very easy to replace. I bought it and installed it. I’m done with idler pulleys for another decade. …
I expected to like Evgeny vs. the internet a lot more than I did. Although I love technology, I am very skeptical of a lot of the pro-technology talk out there. I wanted to hear some serious take-downs of the b.s. that passes for wisdom in the technology space. Unfortunately, it was slim pickings. I …
There was a time when everybody and anybody who knew anything about publishing was hyping the tablet magazine. You simply had to be on the tablet and in Apple’s newsstand. Anything else was “old school,” print-centric thinking. Backwards. If you thought that way you probably dragged your knuckles while eating your Woolly Mammoth sandwich. The …
I’ve read that when you’re asking for donations it’s good to set a standard, like “most people donate $10.” People don’t know what’s “the right” amount, so they want to know what other people do. How much am I supposed to tip the taxi? Should I tip the mail man? Etc. I read about a …
It seems that every magazine is having the same problem. It’s the “death of print.” Something amazing has happened. Magazines no longer fail because they aren’t meeting the needs of their subscribers. They don’t fail because they have misunderstood the market, or because they are serving an interest that doesn’t exist any more. If there …
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“… because it’s not true.” So says Steve Lacy in “Our Audience Wants Print,” Says Steve Lacy, CEO of Meredith. The Breakdown: “2% Digital, 98% Still in Print.” The “digital revolution” — when everyone will be getting their subscriptions in iPads and other tablets — is always “tomorrow.” And it looks to continue that way …
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This is very cool. This Kiosk Prints Magazines and Newspapers As They’re Purchased
Here is a rather long-winded but interesting article on various predictions of the death of print, and how things look at the present time. Spoiler — print isn’t dead, nor is it likely to die any time soon. Paper Versus Pixel — Technology: The science of reading shows that print and digital experiences are complementary. …