1. The Printed Blog

   Written on the 27^th 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 …

2. Web Directions North — discounts end Friday

   Written on the 12^th 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 17^th 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 …

3. Scroll Number 1 — full articles now online

   Written on the 12^th 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.…

4. More musings on the death of print

   Written on the 22^nd 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 …

5. Magazines in Google Book Search

   Written on the 10^th 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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