I went to college with Monty Christo. The funnier part is, he's Monty Christo III - there were two others already! He was extremely proud/defensive about the name - no sense of humor at all.
That "publish to streams" thing exists for all settings... took me a while to find it, but should help prevent your activity from showing up on your wall.
My People rep just sent out a good-bye email today, so I'm assuming that while they offered buy-outs to the editorial staff, they just plain laid off some of the sales staff. #media
AR is great if at first you have a strong creative idea that is best expressed through AR. Otherwise, you're just using some fancy technology for the sake of, and consumers will quickly tire of holding up their magazine to a webcam. #esquire
Where Kimball goes wrong is his assumption that a lack of readership killed the magazine. This is completely false. Advertisers stopped buying pages because their own budgets were slashed. Whether Gourmet had a good internet strategy or not is neither here nor there - without the advertisers, none of these publications can make money.
@MadamButterfloozy: Agreed!
I don't really care about the contest, but Golf World will go, one of the men's mags will go, and Teen Vogue may be in trouble.