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The etnies.com site is running a couple of my Brett Simpson photos from the 2010 US Open of Surfing right here. Kind of cool to see my images up on someone else’s homepage for a change.

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Tired of huffing dead media around for pennies, the US Postal Service has decided that they are going to increase magazine postal rates by 8 percent, according to a story on Media Post. And the old media titans are not happy. In response magazine publishers and industry organizations, including Conde Nast, Time Inc., Bonnier Corp., [...]

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I’m reminded of something I said 16 years ago. . . [Link: BusinessInsider]

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Do old-media titans Ann Moore, Charles Townsend, Jann Wenner, Cathie Black honestly believe that a Youtube.com video of them sitting in their huge corner offices talking about how important magazines are is going to change the media consuming habits of the world? Let it go already. The sooner all these CEOs move on, the sooner [...]

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The possible arrival of Apple’s long-rumored iTablet has old media companies scrambling. They all seem to believe that because the tablet is similar in shape to a magazine that it is going to save the magazine business. A few weeks ago Conde Nast’s Wired magazine presented their vision of what this digital magazine could look [...]

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In a letter to his readers, URB magazine’s founder and publisher Raymond Roker announced that the magazine is taking a break from the print media world. Roker, who has kept URB independent through out its history, explained his reasons for the change than most: To simply blame the prevailing conditions on the financial markets is [...]

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Julius Shulman, amazing mid-century photographer and example for a working life lived right, died on July 15, 2009. He was 98 and still taking pictures. Shulman produced images of buildings — by pioneering architects like Richard Neutra, John Lautner and Pierre Koenig — that defined the postwar architecture of Southern California, among other places. The [...]

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On Thursday night June 4, 2009 I participated in a panel discussion on Social Media and the Social Web presented by Nemo Design and Group Y at the Nemo offices in Portland, Oregon. The panel was titled Who Killed Social Media? Reputation, Community Management, and the Future of Branding and included four other industry professionals: [...]

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Got this tweet today from Circe Wallace at @CirceSnow. It appears that she is not exactly happy with something someone else tweeted for her suggesting she was exhausted after snowboarding at Jackson Hole with T-Rice. I don’t know who was tweeting for Circe if those weren’t her “own words,” but it is something to think [...]

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I’ve worked in media long enough to know that a business’ best customers are often the easiest to extract money from, but in a time when tracking ROI is so simple I would think that customers who are easily retained should get the best deals. Because, quite literally, they cost less. Unfortunately, that idea has [...]

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