All sorts of magazines are hurting right now. The publishing industry isn't healthy. What's my thesis?

The Web is killing publishing.

Think about it. Why would I buy a magazine on Windows development when I can read a weblog like this ... [The Scobleizer Weblog]

Though there's a few that are doing OK too. And some will be linking up with blogs, soon.

 Source: The Scobleizer Weblog; 27/04/03; 9:45:28 pm.
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Other title(s) for this story: Magazines are hurting with little advertising

"Our facilities and services are fantastic, too. They include:

• our private chef who cooks 5 dinners and 3 breakfasts every week
• a TV room with a big screen television, surround sound, and stadium seating
• a game room with pool, foosball, air hockey, and ping-pong
• our own computer cluster with 6 terminals
• a large, newly-remodeled party room"

I followed a link from NTK "first against the wall when Valenti is president" to an about me, I presume it's a speaker at the Emerging Technologies conf. Absolutely staggering when I look back to my degree level education. Beans, beans and bloody lentils. Rest of my money went on booze, and the attempt to get women. It was the young ones.

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Other title(s) for this story: Zeta Beta Tau at MIT

"Can you imagine a campsite of bloggers? ...it's hard to imagine that this won't break down into a consensual circle-jerk. Such is the world of blogdom, which relies heavily on its own, synthetic consensus." A list" blogging, looking up each other's arse holes. Been around for a long time. These new netNewsWire " encourge consensus, and clumping. Or, what appears to me to be brown-nosing.

But, there's still plenty of old goat still to come into the blogospere, yet.

Danny O'Brien (and wife) of NTK: "The sizeable British invasion sat around cackling "bollocks" if anyone even for a second tried to pull that Americanocentric ... well, bollocks." and: "From a dazed Esther Dyson, to the feral teenhackers scavenging on the sidelines, you could smell the fear: that they were about to turn up a year late and several hundred dollars short."

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Other title(s) for this story: The Register: Emerging Technology conference, (review?)

"It's important to remember that there's more than one sort of TrackBack..."

Swimming out deep in trackback land.

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"...The internal weblogs I've seen work are those that track an idea's progress from offhand notion to fully matured proposal. I have seen three such blogs, always-on virtual whiteboards that have sped development and kept the status of projects clearer than they'd been before..."

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Other title(s) for this story: Management by Blog?