Great Canadian Travel viaggio mondo | travel blog experiences Buscando, buscando La semana pasada Condé Nast anunció el cierre de Domino, su revista-guía de compras de decoración. La editorial, famosa por su paciencia con los títulos nuevos, anunció el fin del período de gracia. Un eslabón más en la cadena de cierres que perfilan al 2009 como el año negro de las publicaciones impresas. Sin embargo, el futuro podría ser muy diferente para la hermana gemela de Domino. Lucky, la revista-guía de compras sobre moda, también es propiedad de la editora. Y según reporta The NYT, hoy es el lanzamiento de Lucky at Your Service, la aplicación para el iPhone que conecta directamente con las tiendas, los inventarios y otras informaciones. Para iniciar, la aplicación mostrará sólo un contenido de zapatos que se publicará en la edición impresa de Marzo.
Roadfood.com Home Design Magazines Find No Shelter From the Economic Slump The first one to go was House & Garden. In November 2007, the 106-year-old magazine unexpectedly ceased publication. Soon after, Time Inc.'s In Style Home and Martha Stewart's Blueprint folded, and late last summer, Hachette Filipacchi Media's Home shuttered. Since November, three more home design magazines announced their demise: Time Inc.'s Cottage Living, Hearst Magazines' O at Home and Meredith Corp.' Times are tough all around, but especially so in the shelter magazine industry. Those looking to point a finger for the shuttering of their favorite home design magazines can blame the over-saturation of them in the market and the 24-hour availability of design information on TV, radio and the Internet. "It's a combination of all of those factors," says Deborah Burns, senior vice president of the Luxury Design Group, who oversees Metropolitan Home and Elle Decor magazines. Launching and maintaining a successful print magazine is difficult enough in a healthy economy.
The Vegetarian Travel Guide Yourmagz.com Marries Ning with Scribd Canadian start-up Yourmagz.com launched the closed beta version of its SaaS content distribution platform today. You can sign up to view the site. The platform – which can be described as a hybrid between social network platform Ning and web document sharing service Scribd – specializes in distributing publishers’ content across various websites, social networks, and mobile devices. So basically, a user creates a website (much like one can do on Ning), uploads print or video content and then can distribute a “virtual magazine” to Facebook and other social networks, mobile phones and websites with the click of a button. Each virtual magazine can have members who can comment and upload their own photos and videos. Yourmagz will offer “freemium” based services, allowing anyone to use the technology’s core benefits for free. Yourmagz.com is similar to an existing business. But there are definite challenges in forming such a widespread and open platform like Yourmagz.com.
The Best Travel Stories on the Internet The Root The song was composed by D'Angelo, guitarist Charlie Hunter, and Luther Archer, D'Angelo's brother. "The Root" features intricate musical arrangements and its theme concerns a vengeful lover's effect on the song's narrator whose lament is depicted in the lyrics. It was well received by music critics, who commended its music and lyrical content. Recording and production[edit] "The Root" was recorded and produced by D'Angelo at Electric Lady Studios in New York City during sessions for his sophomore funk studio album, Voodoo (2000),[1] which took place during 1998 to 1999.[2] The song was composed by D'Angelo, guitarist Charlie Hunter, and Luther Archer, D'Angelo's brother.[3] According to Voodoo's co-producer and drummer, Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson of The Roots, the track serves as part of the album's "virtuoso part", along with "Spanish Joint" and "Greatdayndamornin' / Booty".[2] It features intricate technical arrangements and no overdubbing of live instrumentation or vocals.[2]
Read for Free, Pay for Print or Stuff The discussion about micro-payments and “pay to read” goes round and round because it ignores a basic fact. Most people, most of the time, do not read newspapers. They view, scan and search newspapers. Appealing to tribes Readers can be found in tribes, in the sense used by Terry Heaton at his PoMo Blog and by Seth Godin in his most recent book Tribes: groups of people united by a common idea and inspired by a common leader. In today’s wired world, tribes can form, coalesce and disband in mere days. So readers will willingly buy words delivered in different forms, but it depends on a combination of price, convenience and timing. The New Yorker successfully employed a ‘Read for Free, Pay for Print’ model “Read for free, pay for print or stuff,” on the other hand, is a model that can, and does, deliver revenue. The New Yorker appeals to a high-brow reader niche. In the magazine’s printed version, it sells ads to help other people sell “stuff.” 2) “Give the Gift of the New Yorker.” Related
UK: Cosmopolitan.co.uk web traffic doubles after relaunch - edit Since its relaunch April 1, Cosmopolitan.co.uk's web traffic has surged. According to Journalism.co.uk, the Cosmo site has increased the number of unique users visiting the site by 136 per cent in May compared to a traffic audit from October 2007 -- the most recent information available from the Audit Bureau of Circulation Electronic. According to the Nedstat data used by Journalism.co.uk, the Hearst Digital site registered 415,165 unique visitors in May up from 176,385 users recorded by ABCE in October. Page views over this period also doubled from 2,388,532 in October to 5,131,472 in May. Hearst originally set targets of five million page views and 500,000 unique monthly visitors by the end of 2008, said Hearst Digital managing director Alex Ballantyne. "We're pretty much on track to achieve those numbers this month or next month when at the start of the year we said we'd try and achieve that by December. Sources: Journalism.co.uk, Guardian.co.uk
BusinessWeek to offer different version of website for subscribe BusinessWeek is to create a special online version of its magazine that will only be available to subscribers, reported MediaWeek. The subscriber-only view will be print-like in presentation, and the new paid/free strategy is part of a site relaunch in July. All the magazine's content will be available free on the site, but subscribers will be offered a different experience in an attempt to provide "a special privilege for print subscribers," Roger Neal, general manager of BusinessWeek.com, told MediaWeek. The relaunch will also consolidate the weekly magazine's many channels into three, focused on breaking news, analysis and community. The move to create a premium online product is presumably an attempt to up the number of subscribers. Other news weeklies such as Newsweek have also been redesigning to fight the economic downturn and subsequent falling subscriptions, offering a new website with a focus on indepth stories and user-generated content, rather than breaking news.
25 Outstanding Magazine Style Website Designs One of my favorite styles of web design to take inspiration from is the magazine style. Creating a well-designed site that looks good, allows for good usability, and features a lot of content without cramming items onto the page is a very difficult task. Blog theme designers can often put some of this inspiration into practice in their own work, as blogs often face the challenge of displaying a lot of content while still trying to look good.Here we’ll showcase 25 different websites that utilize a magazine or news style layout. Looking for hosting? WPEngine offers secure managed WordPress hosting. You’ll get expert WordPress support, automatic backups, and caching for fast page loads.