Geez magazine blogger says buy a Bible from Murdoch, but pay 10% to a worthy cause

Will Braun, the former co-editor of Geez magazine, has a new blog at the magazine and has an intriguing post about Rupert Murdoch (I know, you think you're "Murdoched-out", but bear with me.) The post highlights News Corporation's Bible-publishing business through its ownership of HarperCollins. One of HarperCollins's divisions is Zondervan, the world's largest publisher of Bibles. Among other

Unmediated Guardian science blogs a new model for publishing

The continuing evolution of the relationship between publication and informed readers is illustrated by a network of blogs on science launched by the Guardian newspaper in Britain. According to a post on Nieman Journalism Lab, the four collaborative blogs blend hosted content and contributions from scientists who are the blogs' target audience. “This network of blogs is not just for other science

Fire. Ready. Aim. Blogger gives the magazine industry some tough love, we think

Whatever the strategy, getting annoyed with the public for being indifferent to the printed word is the quickest way for a magazine to have its own funeral.This was the way blogger Marc Weisblott (Mondoville) concluded his swingeing column  about magazines. It was hard to understand quite what he was getting at as he rummages through the history of five magazines to reach his dubious conclusion

Pay up, said Spacing blogger, and the Toronto Sun did

Magazine bloggers sticking up for themselves department:When the Toronto Sun recently appropriated the entire contents of a blog posting, plus the accompanying picture, from Spacing magazine's blog, the writer took a firm but unequivocal stance: pay me the standard rate for this. And you know what? They did.Blogger Sean Marshall wrote an item about and posted a picture of an old TTC subway car

Transcon launches ad network for blogs in Québec

Transcontinental Media, the newspaper, magazine and new media arm of Transcontinental Inc., is launching a local ad network in Québec that will allow advertising on 20 of what are said to be the most influential Québec-based blogs, according to an item on Montreal Tech Watch. The network will launch on Friday.The idea grew out of Yulbiz, a local event started by Michel Leblanc and Phillipe