Chris Webb's Publishing Blog » magazines http://ckwebb.com Tue, 05 Apr 2011 03:06:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 What Magazines Can Learn from Social Media http://ckwebb.com/social-networks-and-media/what-magazines-can-learn-from-social-media/ http://ckwebb.com/social-networks-and-media/what-magazines-can-learn-from-social-media/#comments Mon, 03 Dec 2007 21:13:26 +0000 Chris http://ckwebb.com/social-networks-and-media/what-magazines-can-learn-from-social-media/ Record on turntableDan Blank has written a great post on how he has changed the way he thinks about magazines. It seems that Dan has quite an obsession (his word) with stereo equipment, and in the past he would pour over industry and trade magazines and spend time in local audio shops. Today he finds that he spends the majority of his time discussing his hobby online, and has all but abandoned magazines in particular.

In the article, Dan discusses ways in which print media might change in order to stay relevant, with a focus on community features.

So the idea of receiving a monthly issue of a magazine that only deals with the latest technology (that I can’t afford), and offers no two-way communication, is simply not as useful to me. I don’t want to be spoken to and sold to; I want a community to interact with.

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]]> http://ckwebb.com/social-networks-and-media/what-magazines-can-learn-from-social-media/feed/ 0 The Death of Computer Books http://ckwebb.com/publishing/books-and-writing/the-death-of-computer-books/ http://ckwebb.com/publishing/books-and-writing/the-death-of-computer-books/#comments Wed, 07 Nov 2007 21:15:05 +0000 Chris http://ckwebb.com/books/the-death-of-computer-books/ tombstoneI received my copy of Dr. Dobbs Journal yesterday. It’s one of the few tech magazines I actually still get in the old fashioned paper version. This month’s cover story is Computer Books: Reading Between the Lines, and is a fair assessment of the industry although it is far from complete.

The industry is definitely changing, but you could say that about the magazine industry as well, right CMP?

It was nice, however, to see that this blog was mentioned in the article.

What do you think? Have you purchased your last computer/technology book?
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