With the recent struggles of many of the most well-known names in print, it’s easy to jump to the conclusion that printing a magazine is a path to failure. However, for many publishers, focusing on a very specific niche has enabled them to successfully put out a publication for many years.
Asylum has a nice roundup [...]
Archive for August, 2009
Ultra-niche magazines show print’s not dead
Published by August 31st, 2009 in Design/Publishing and Print Media. 2 CommentsOlder users responsible for Twitter’s growth
Published by August 26th, 2009 in Social Media, Social Networking and Web/Internet. 0 CommentsTwitter has experienced phenomenal growth over the last couple of years. Unlike many social media sites, however Twitter’s growth hasn’t been driven by the youth – it’s us old people that are signing up in droves.
“The traditional early-adopter model would say that teenagers or college students are really important to adoption,” said Andrew Lipsman, director [...]
As I’ve posted before, I run Ubuntu Linux on my aging laptop. It’s fast, stable, looks cool, and has a lot of good, free open-source software applications available. Furthermore, for an OS that’s supposedly for geeks (guilty), I spend remarkably little time “under the hood” tinkering with settings or tweaking it to run better. As [...]
A new study in JAMA shows that taking aspirin on a regular basis can help reduce the risk of dying of colon cancer:
The improvements in outcomes were striking. Patients with colorectal cancer who regularly used aspirin before and after a diagnosis were almost one-third less likely to die of the disease than non-users. Patients who [...]
Creepy Palm Pre ads are… A raging success?
Published by August 11th, 2009 in Advertising, Gadgets and Television. 2 CommentsI was somewhat relieved to find out that I wasn’t the only one who would describe the Palm Pre commercials as odd, but neither did I think others would describe feelings of “happiness” and “inspiration” when viewing them. Surprise, surprise:
A nationwide study of 305 viewers looked at response to the new Palm Pre ads. While [...]
