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  • BoSacks  Michael: You couldn’t be more correct. It is arrogance peppered with a complete lack of understanding. You can’t build a business plan on a platform you don’t know about and don’t use. Senior management doesn’t use the Internet and don’t fathom the depths that it can go to. I loved your rant. It is right on, and I wish to but you a cup of coffee or a shot of tequila. Whichever seems best for an ongoing conversation. BoSacks -30-
  • • 3 months ago
    •   How magazines (the original social media) squandered their position and (almost) screwed the pooch with regard to the web.
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  • boSacks  Planning for the future is a good thing. But remember that nature abhors a vacuum. If we continue to have free commerce then somebody is going to make a living selling words. I can't say how those monitized words will be sent or recieved, but sent they will be. Where's da money? somewhere for sure. Bo -30-
  • • 5 months ago
    •   Will evolution kill the magazine?
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  • BoSacks  Michael: Yes I will stand with my original hypothesis. In the future there will be many types of reading experiences. Most will be digital some will be on dead trees. Some digital experiences will be community based development and some not. In the future not all publishing will be in a magazine format. What is the magazine Format? That would be edited, paginated, designed and dated. And if it doesn’t have these attributes, it’s not a magazine. It is….. something else… a web page, a blog, a mlog, a random compilation of thoughts, information and data. I think in the future there will be plenty of magazines. Somewhat like the format that has taken 600 years to perfect. The only thing we are missing today for excellent execution is the right mechanical platform. It is coming, but it is not here yet. And we agree, there needs to be new business plans with the new models of distribution.
  • • 5 months ago
    •   Will evolution kill the magazine?
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  • BoSacks  Michael: Very well stated and I agree. I wrote the following yesterday on my Blog and reading yours today, it seemed that they could fit together. BoSacks -30- ------------------------ The real issues facing some of my print friends and pundits, is that they seem to forget that it is actually the words, the journalism, the thinking, and the final distribution of that wisdom, that contains any meaningful importance. Why does it matter so much if it is paper or plastic? What is the difference? Who really cares? I’m on my 5th Palm ebook now and here is what I have found. The words are a transportation device. The words take you wherever a good author or journalist intended you go. It doesn’t matter to the transportation system, what the substrate is, could be paper could be plastic. Words don't know and don't care how they are read. They just want to be understood
  • • 7 months ago
    •   The Magazine and The Mobile Web
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  •   mturro  I most definitely agree with that... to a point. I still feel that the medium the words are delivered in has some impact on the nature of the reception of those words in the mind of the reader. I still think that mobile devices have a long way to go before they can deliver anything close to the same experience that reading a well designed magazine delivers. Ultimately publishers are in a holding pattern created by the uncertainty in the consumer electronics industry. When the technology stabilizes (which I think it will) and standards start to gel to the point that designers can reliably create good design for that technology, we'll start to see real traction and new life for the digital magazine.
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