Wednesday, 12 August 2009

Most of Politico.com's revenue comes from print

Michael Wolfe’s piece in Vanity Fair points out that Politico brings in the readers from its website but the bills are all paid by the lessor-read print version.

Bye bye Big Smoke

Time Out drops the quirky ‘Big Smoke’ front-of-the-book section.

Cheapest cinema in London

Six squatters have opened The VHS Video Basement in an old language school just off Oxford Street.

Wednesday, 27 May 2009

Illegal locker library

A girl who is now running an ‘illegal library’ from her locker because of a book ban at her private school has asked Yahoo Questions if it is moral.

Sunday, 24 May 2009

Magazines turn page to post-Internet era

The Vancouver Courier has an interesting feature story on the changing nature of Canadian media. Near the end is a short interview with me about being an online publisher.

Two thoughts on this: 1) When you read the story, remember that Only is a commune. It took a lot more people than just me to launch it. 2) This article was published three weeks ago – not a soul mentioned it to me. I looked it up today, online, when I was thinking “What happened with that interview I did last month?”

Monday, 18 May 2009

Bible bombing

Former US Secretary of Defense used to put bible quotes on his briefings to George W. Bush as a suck-up maneuver.

Neverland Ranch photos

Paul Scheer went to the the auction of the contents on Michael Jackson’s Neverland Ranch. Very weird.

Wednesday, 13 May 2009

Behold, the pizza box of the future

It seems so obvious now.

Venetia Phair Dies at 90; as a Girl, She Named Pluto

How to sum up a life in a headline

Jughead's head

If you have ever wondered, ‘What the hell is that crown-y thing that Jughead wears?’, wonder no more