Archive for October, 2007

Curses! How does media deal?

By Phillip • Oct 30th, 2007 • Category: News, general, internet

Britain’s Guardian Unlimited launched Guardian America recently, a U.S. portal for news written about America, by Brits (mostly).
I was checking it out the other day and came upon something that surprised me. Check out this screenshot of Guardian America’s frontpage:

Did you see it? Lemme zoom in some:

This raised a few questions for me because, to [...]



BusinessWeek tries Magazine 2.0

By Phillip • Oct 26th, 2007 • Category: Featured, internet, magazine

Two weeks ago, BusinessWeek magazine announced a design “relaunch”, in which they hoped to change the subject matter of the print magazine (removing some general interest stuff, expanding global business coverage) and change the magazine’s content from the old-media magazine style they had been working with for so long into a more blog/web-inspired style mimicking [...]



Blogmills will kill save all media

By Phillip • Oct 16th, 2007 • Category: Featured, internet, newspaper

The New York Magazine has a cover story about Gawker, the blog and the blog group, this week which, if you can get past the first page and a half of insufferability, is pretty neat. There’s a lot of Gawker-hate in the article — it must have been pretty satisfying to take the piss out [...]



Evil Odometer

By Phillip • Oct 11th, 2007 • Category: News

Reached this milestone in my car the other day. It’s an old car.