Hammock Builds Social Network for SNAP Conference | FolioMag.com It's great to see Folio: Magazine publishing the kind of story I'm sure its audience can't get enough of — a case study about a recent Hammock project. (Filed under: Shameless linkage to article quoting me.) (tags: magazines hammock publising)

Nick Bradbury(credit: Will Pate) My friend, Nick Bradbury, writes about the discontinuation of HomeSite, an HTML editing software he developed before most people ever heard of HTML. He created the software in 1995 and sold it in 1997, so it has been a while since he’s been involved with the product. (After a few sales and [...]

Seth says Malcolm is wrong, Chris is right | Seth Godin In the Free vs. Paid debate, Seth is clearly on the Free side. (tags: magazines)

The company producing Michael Jackson’s concert tour has announced those who have purchased tickets can get a refund or receive “souvenir tickets.” In the old days, before electronic ticket ordering, the tickets would have been issued upon purchase. I assume the “souvenir tickets” are going to be printed up and authenticated in some way to [...]

One of those intangibles about working on a magazine — an intangalbe that one doesn’t often experience when working primarily on the web — is a sense that something can have a beginning, a middle and an end — and then it starts all over again. But sometimes, those of us who are immersed in [...]

I’m taking part in an online book-reading-club-support-group-community-project* called Infinite Summer, a group-read of the 1,000+ page novel Infinite Jest by the late David Foster Wallace. I’ll admit, I got a bit of a head-start on the project because a couple of months ago, I purchased the Kindle version of the book after reading Aaron Pressman’s [...]

Free (thebook’s name,not its price) The New Yorker’s Malcolm Gladwell has a review (preview?) of his fellow Conde Naster, Wired’s editor-in-chief Chris Anderson’s new book Free: The Future of a Radical Price. Like Anderson’s previous blockbuster book, The Long Tail, the new book started out as a Wired magazine cover story — so the ideas he [...]

Will Hotel Guests Like Free Digital Magazines? | Springwise Question: Will we get to see what percentage of Starwood guests download more than five magazines? Why five? I think 2-3 magazines would be a trial — 5 would mean they like it. (tags: magazines)

Helpful hack: Google will now text you a password Note to self: To set up password recovery via your mobile phone, just sign in to your account and click Change Password Recovery Options. Enter your mobile phone number and current password and then click Save. If you lose access to your account for any reason, you'll [...]

Michael Jackson, the year I graduated from high school. It’s a little before 6:00 a.m. CST as I write this and I’ve been listening to the BBC World News stream on WPLN.org. I’ve been struck by how the world is reacting to the news that Michael Jackson died. Not only is it the dominate story on the [...]