The Printed Blog
Written on the 27th of January. no comments
The Printed Blog, a startup by former business productivity software entrepreneur Joshua Karp, is launching a twice-daily free print newspaper in cities across the country aggregating localized blog posts. The business model is to attract advertising revenue from local advertisers.
Interesting idea: that a print publication could tap into hyperlocal content and attract advertisers who …
Web Directions North — discounts end Friday
Written on the 12th of January. no comments
A quick note to our Scroll readers that discount period for Web Directions North, which is organized by the founders of Scroll Magazine, end Friday the 17th at midnight. But, for Scroll readers, we also have a mystery discount on top of the $100 discount. So sign up by Friday to get a further significant discount (or if you …
Scroll Number 1 — full articles now online
Written on the 12th of January. 1 comment
How quickly a quarter of a year rolls by. When we first launched Scroll during Web Directions South 08 we promised that all the articles would be published in full online 3 months after the print magazine was published. Well, it’s that time already, so, here they all are for your reading pleasure.…
More musings on the death of print
Written on the 22nd of December. no comments
In the week or so that the parent company of the Chicago Tribune and LA Times, two of the world’s best known quality newspapers went into Chapter 11 bankruptcy, more folks are discussing the “death of print”.
Designer extraordinaire Jason Santa Maria argues that while the death of the word printed on paper is exaggerated, the days of its …
Magazines in Google Book Search
Written on the 10th of December. 1 comment
Google announced today the inclusion of magazines in Google Book search, making it much much easier (and in many cases possible for the first time) to access magazine articles at many major magazines going back decades. The initiative aims
to help bring more magazine archives and current magazines online, partnering with publishers to begin digitizing millions of articles from titles
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