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Next Big Thing: The Clapper

This week Time magazine adds its cover story What's Next to the jumble of recent magazine stories about new technologies. You can see ours here. A sidebar in Time's collection made me wonder, however. In this, technology forecaster ...READ»

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What Do You Want From A Magazine Website?

Interesting article today in today's Wall Street Journal about Time Inc. and its latest attempt at a coherent Web strategy. The piece raises some important issues about what we want from our print media's online forays. Perhaps the ...READ»

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User Generated Content Gets Kudos

On Sunday, after first hearing about Time magazine's person of the year, I thought about blogging about it. Seeing the cover, with it's iMac image with a YouTube controller, reminded me of the early '80s when the personal computer ...READ»

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Time's Printed RSS Feed Magazine Needs Debugging, Ad Blocking

The first issue of mine magazine has been released, Time Inc.'s 10-issue experimental mash-up of its different magazines into a kind of printed RSS feed, and the results are not going to put Google Reader out of business anytime ...READ»

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Time Inc.'s Mine Magazine is a Printed RSS Feed

The news just keeps getting more personal. Hyper-specialized blogs, RSS feeds, and personalized Google homepages let us focus on what we care about and tune out the rest. Thus far, personalized news has been limited to the Internet, but Time Inc. is bringing it to the printed word with mine, a five-issue, 10-week, experimental magazine...READ»

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The Most (and Least) Inventive Inventions on Time's '50 Best Inventions' List

If someone decided to do a list of innovative magazine lists, it probably wouldn't include Time magazine's "50 Best Innovations" list. The new one's out, and we've sub-selected some of the good items for you. But a broad swath of the ...READ»

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Chapter Seven: From Ecology to Economy

Big Business and the Disconnect from ValueREAD»

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A Bailout for Journalists? Just Say No!

TypePad is making news by offering laid-off journalists a free "pro" blogging account. Don't fall for it!READ»

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Flickr Removes Obama-as-Joker Photo

It's rarely a good PR move when a social Web site decides to remove a politically-charged image--the InterWebs get angry. One such case came to light today: A Photoshop mockup of President Obama as the Joker from The Dark Knight, ...READ»

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Reality Branding

There seems to be a lot of hype over sites such as Coolspotters.com, SeenOn.com and Seesmic.com.  If you haven’t already heard of these sites let me take a moment to explain their proposition. These websites feature candid ...READ»

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Major Print Publishers Gang Up to Pre-Empt Apple, Already Make Mistakes

Well, it's been recently speculated, and now it's true: Five big names in ink-and-paper magazine and newspaper publishing have ganged up in a joint venture. It's aim, despite grandiose PR? Outsmart Apple, and side-step Amazon. The ...READ»

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Cowards of the Year

They came, they saw, they caved: These antiheroes turned their backs on what they know is right.READ»

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Hip Hop History: An Interview with Vibe Magazine Publisher Len Burnett

Hip hop was king. The year was 1999. Hip hop became American pop music and it did so on the back of a willing media. The music’s ascendancy was ushered in on the back of one very important magazine, Vibe. The Source was the bible ...READ»

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Mogul Manuals

Michael Moritz has practically written the book on high-tech investment. Now he shares his all-time favorite great books with Fast Company.READ»

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iFive: Amazon's Jeff Bezos Gets to Work, Austin Shares Smart Cars, and 50 Cent Isn't Twittering? in Today's Innovation News

While you were sleeping, innovation worked a double shift, popped a couple of brewskis, and then fell asleep in his work clothes. Here's today's innovation news: The family can stop worrying: Jeff Bezos got a warehouse job in ...READ»

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The Government Can Now Track You, Sans Warrant, Via GPS

The word "Orwellian" gets tossed around a lot, which is unfortunate, because it takes power away from the things that actually are terrifyingly Orwellian--like this.READ»

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Seven Entertaining Things Online This Week

Let's face it: it's almost August, the official month of no productivity. Why not start off a week early? Here's seven bits of Internet fun stuff that topped the social news sites this week. Sit back and enjoy. Dangerous ...READ»

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Speedometer

Going fast. Going slow. Going nowhere.READ»

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Downsizing the American Dream Home

After years of hypergrowth in housing size, the average U.S. home is now getting smaller. Will Americans learn to love the post-McMansion residence? READ»

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Letter From the CEO

Handing over the keys.READ»

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A Monthly Column on Culture

Anne Here's my take on business and the natural order. Synergy was all a big mistake. Nature is hardwired for antisynergy. Do coyotes collaborate with sheep? Do fish empower dragonflies in the pond? Naturally, that brings AOL Time ...READ»

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Let’s Hear it For T. Boone Pickens

If you have cable TV, you’ve probably seen the new “energy awareness” commercial, paid-for and narrated-by T. Boone Pickens. For those of you who haven’t laid your eyes on this, watch it here. The half-scowl, ...READ»

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Freelance Friendly

Working Today's Freelancers Union recently surveyed its New York-based members about which companies treat freelancers best. Here are the top 10 results: Time Warner BBC Conde Nast Publications HBO MTV Networks Ogilvy & Mather The ...READ»

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Third Magazine Publisher Introduces Hand-Wavy Tablet PC Format

This is one very unexpected trend: Yet another magazine publisher has demonstrated how it thinks its future might look as a digital edition on a tablet PC. This time it's Swedish publisher Bonnier, and their video is clever. But wrong.READ»

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I. Finding the Right Company for You: Team, Idea, Timing

Late in 1999, Time magazine named Jeff Bezos Person of the Year for revolutionizing global commerce. Ironically, Bezos led his commercial revolution from atop Amazon.com, a global company that has yet to turn a profit. Since that ...READ»