Mr Barton's Place. Part 2

Satellite Of Love

How sexy is this Satellite wheel then eh?!

Vancouver arts publishing highlighted with Main Street Magazine Tour

The BC Association of Magazine Publishers is holding The Main Street Magazine Tour, a free event in Vancouver, on Thursday, August 19. BCAMP teams up with neighbourhood businesses to showcase local arts, literary and cultural magazines.Local poets Elizabeth Bachinsky and Jennica Harper lead a free series of 30-minute readings, exhibits and performances, held in various Main Street shops and

Geist and The Walrus featured in Saturday's Globe

The Walrus's September issue and Geist  summer issue are both featured in James Adams's Saturday column in the Globe and Mail about magazines. But you can read what it says now, online.

Controlling their customer data big challenge of iPad for magazine publishers

With the announcement today that Research in Motion (RIM) will be unveiling a tablet in November, the burgeoning of this form of delivery will further whet the appetites of magazine publishers, but...One of the things that magazines particularly value and cultivate is their customer data. But the business model being pushed by Apple with its iPad and its iTunes store is such that magazines who

David Bentley, co-founder of Frank magazine, feted for 50 years of feisty journalism

Bentley at his Halifax semicentennial celebration Thursday

Good to read about the celebration, in Halifax on Thursday, of David Bentley's 50 years of afflicting the comfortable, reported in Parker Donham's Contrarian blog. Bentley was the co-founder of Frank magazine (the Atlantic edition that carries on, despite the closure of the national, Ottawa-based edition) and the late Halifax Daily

This is a good -- but wholly American -- list of the best magazine articles ever

Much excitement in the Twitterverse about a list of what are said to be the "Best magazine articles ever (in English)", compiled by the website Cool Tools.  The list contains 27 articles from The New Yorker over the years, 17 from Esquire, 9 from Harper's, 8 from The Atlantic Monthly and 8 from Wired and ones and twos from more than a dozen other magazines. Nothing very surprising; these are all

Seventy Three and Seventy Seven

Shige "Mooneyes" Suganuma emailed us these photos he shot in the seventies

This is Harajyuku Tokyo, 1973, and that looks like a Kawasaki WI.



And these two other gems are California '77

Toronto theme featured in launch of New York literary journal Assembly

Editor Marek Denisiuk introduces Assembly

Speaking of Canadian magazines, I suppose it counts when a Toronto native launches a new literary journal in New York whose theme for the first issue is all things Toronto. According to a post on the Wall Street Journal blog Speakeasy, the editor and publisher of Assembly is Marek Denisiuk. Of his magazine, he says“A lot of the literary journals seem

Yep...

...hipsters rule.

Hey Nonny Nonny

Costa Mesa.

Our mate Shane Trulin has a new neighbour. His name is Bruce. We will be keeping you updated with crazy Bruce Shenanigans as they happen. He has already had a ruck with some other bloke in a doorway this morning! Not only that but he was wearing that Batman mask at the time too! Oh Bruce you are silly!

Jeremy Bievenour

is great

U.S. business press editors choose Computerworld and SC as mags of the year

The American Society of Business Publication Editors (ASBPE) has chosen IDG's Computerworld magazine as its magazine of the year in the category of titles over $2 million in revenue; and Haymarket's SC magazine for the under-$2 million category, according to a story in Folio:.Judges cited both winners for clean design, use of illustrations, easy pullout data and coverage of timely issues.

Other

Meredith magazines in U.S. increase advertising market share and are back in the black

Meredith Corp. is hoovering up a larger share of magazine industry advertising in the U.S., according to a company release which reports that the company's fiscal 2010 puts it back in the black after coming through a dismal recession.  The story says that Meredith's magazine advertising market share increased to 12.3%; it was about 9.5% two years ago. Readership of measured Meredith magazines

Kustom Lane Gallery Presents...

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Briarpatch publishes exchange between brothers separated by immigration status

The human and complex face of immigration, and particularly illegal immigration, is illustrated by an article published in Briarpatch magazine. It's an e-mail exchange between two Pakistani brothers separated by the Canada and U.S. border. The family emigrated illegally to the United States 15 years ago, but one brother was deported and came to Canada on a student visa, and now working towards

Cottage Life goes with a flapvertisement

The summer issue of Cottage Life magazine features a "peel and reveal" cover which, when so peeled, features an ad for Corona beer. According to the blog Cover Sell, quoting an unattributed staffer: “This was an idea that our sales team presented to the client about a year ago. It was expensive to produce, and required five additional days to print, glue and die cut. This is a first for Cottage

The case for editors and editing, in case one needs to be made

I've just come across an article, written originally for the blog Writing for Digital and reprinted by Digital Book World, in which James Mathewson, editor in chief of ibm.com shows pretty conclusively the value of good editors, in this case working on online marketing materials.Matthewson says that editors are sometimes seen as an extra, and unnecessary, step getting in the way of publishing on

Mr Barton's Place. Part 1.