Another...

...Sara Ray petrol tank.

Tablet market may be growing, but it's "nascent", says Nielsen study

Survey results released by The Nielsen Company is a sharp reminder of how small the tablet market is right now, though holding out some promise. A story published by Folio: says the study was an attempt to review how people are using their mobile devices such as smartphones, e-readers, iPads and the like. The survey found, when it polled 5,000 device owners, that only 4 per cent owned tablet

Canadian Art retains veteran ad rep Nicola Clayton to sell to U.S. advertisers

Canadian Art magazine has hired Nicola Clayton to represent it in U.S. advertising sales. Clayton, who is managing director of the New York-based Luxury Media Sales, has been for some years representing  Maclean's and L’Actualité and other Rogers titles to New York agencies and advertisers. She also represents Zoomer magazine among other Canadian titles.

Tricks and treats of the makeup trade

In honour of Hallowe'en, a friend directed us to the New York Times women's fashion blog, Model-Morphosis, which shows some awesomely attractive models before and after the makeup artists are through with them. Photographer Greg Kessler captured the transformation during Paris Fashion Week. When you go to the Flash images, move the orange bar to see the before and after. Most of the befores look

Quote, unquote: All hands on deck to push the Blue Jays, says Rogers Media boss

"One of the areas will be on Sportsnet.ca, where we will have a far larger Toronto Blue Jays presence. The Jays also have 81 dates for us to communicate some of our other brands. So not only will we utilize everything from The Shopping Channel, the FAN 590, Sportsnet to even some of our publication divisions to grow and build the Blue Jays brand, vice versa, the Blue Jays will be utilized as a

Michael Arndt - Toy Story 3

Senior Editor Jeff Goldsmith interviews Michael Arndt about Toy Story 3

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The Hockey News shucks newsprint pages and goes all-glossy November 8

New look on stands Nov. 8
Transcontinental Media's The Hockey News is giving up its long-time newsprint tabloid format and becoming a glossy magazine, in part to satisfy and attract more advertisers. According to a story in Marketing magazine, publisher Caroline Andrews has wanted to convert THN since arriving in 2007. First there was a glossy cover; now it will be glossy throughout."I think

"Come and run this magazine for nothing"

Time was that unpaid editorial internships were justified (unreasonably) by publishing companies on the basis that these weren't jobs, but an extension of a student's learning. However a friend points out that an internship posting on the Masthead job board by Totem, the custom media company, takes this to a whole new level. In return for bus fare, the sweeping job description for an "editorial

Winter

Well the first snows are already falling on the mountains of Utah and the Bolts Action chaps, our good friends in Salt Lake City, could not be happier. Yes, it is their fav time of year.










I'm really looking forward to getting back there this winter for a bit of board time, you guys are the best.

Panhead Finned Covers.

Keith Weesner.

The Boys.

Old Man Bill.

...From Issue 23.

Quote, unquote: "Huh???"

""We all read it and have no idea what he was talking about. It’s the kind of communication where there are no verbs and every other word is some kind of buzzy techno jargon."-- a Conde Naste employee, quoted by David Carr in the New York Times Media Decoder blog about a memo circulated by CN CEO Charles Townsend to explain the company's "realignment". (We reported the import of the memo on

Paladin's Notebook

Iron Horse. December 1980

Fast Times At Ridgemont High.

Our mate Michael Barragan with 'The Dragon.'
EVIL SPIRIT!

1975

JM.

"I am a nightmare walkin',
Psychopath talkin',
I'm Jimmy Monk,
And I come from new malden."

'Nuff Said.

Brilliant.

Do Me A Favour.

Kobo service offering two-week free trial of Canadian and U.S titles, but no Canadian magazines

Kobo, the e-reading service controlled by Indigo Books & Music, is offering a two-week free trial download of a menu of popular Canadian and American newspapers, and U.S. but, curiously not one Canadian, magazines.  This offer includes digital editions of the following Canadian newspapers :Calgary Herald 
Edmonton Journal 
Montreal Gazette 
National Post 
Ottawa Citizen 
Regina

EnRoute will have to be printed elsewhere, as Transcon shuts down Boucherville plant

Boucherville R.I.P.
Transcontinental Inc., Canada's largest consumer magazine publisher and one of the continent's largest printers, is closing its Boucherville, Quebec printing plant, one of 36 it has across the country. The plant, where enRoute magazine is printed for Spafax Inc. on behalf of Air Canada, is but the latest casualty in a restructuring of the company and an overcapacity in

Gak Attack.

Meredith Corporation circulation revenue slips by 4% in 1st quarter

From a report in Audience Development   we learn that Meredith Corporation (Better Homes & Gardens etc.)  saw circulation sales revenue decline by 4 per cent during the fiscal first quarter, at least in part due to the scaling back the number of special interest publications from 150 last year to 90 this year. First quarter circulation sales were $268.3 million, down from $271.6 million in the

Street Machine.

Odax

I bought this deck jacket off a geezer in London quite some years ago now. It gets worn a lot for winter riding, it's warm and toasty. Ok so nothing really interesting about that, except I have always been intrigued about the writing on the back. So after some exhaustive detective work, which meant typing the name into Google, I discovered it belonged to a crew member of the USS Odax submarine that was commisioned in 1945. They have a website, I sent some emails to the contacts on the site but no one has ever got back to me. It's kinda basic but they do have some great old crew member pics on there.

Condé Nast re-realigns and combines digital and print advertising sales, by product

In what is another indicator of a continuing trend in the magazines business, Condé Nast has announced it is merging (it used the term realigning) its digital and print advertising sales operations into one, multi-platform, multi-brand unit. According to a story in MediaPost,  Condé Nast Digital and the Condé Nast Media Group will now be combined at the individual brand level, under chief

Best. Shirt. Ever.

Del Taco.

OMG OMG OMG!