Category Archives: Debates

Remember The People’s Library

Posted on April 22, 2013 by

The news coverage about the Occupy Wall Street movement made it easy to have arguments about the rightness or wrongness of the occupiers cause. But in the middle of all of the convoluted arguments about the crimes of financial insiders, … Continue reading →

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The Shrinking SBT Iceberg

Posted on March 29, 2013 by

Last week the Alliance for Audited Media (AAM, formerly known as the Audit Bureau of Circulation), announced that it would allow for the calculation of “shrink” in determining the single copy sales of it’s audited magazines. While this wasn’t unexpected, … Continue reading →

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Things Placed In Front of The Magazine Rack: The Actors Edition

Posted on March 18, 2013 by

How many romantic comedies and television series from the 1990′s and the last decade featured characters who worked for newspapers, magazines or book publishers? We don’t see a lot of Norma Raes (or Roseannes for that matter) up on the … Continue reading →

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Why Does What Works, Work?

Posted on February 19, 2013 by

While the phrase “Disruptive Technology” has been with us since the late 1990′s, I didn’t seriously think about it until I began my adventure with Twitter several years ago. All of a sudden, my morning “In the office not traveling” routine … Continue reading →

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