Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Oakland


Max about to drop into the best half pipe I have ever skated. Sadly I heard its been torn up now, what a waste


Jasin

Oakland is a great place, it reminds me very much of Ladbroke Grove in the '70s. Thats the neighborhood I grew up in in London. Good times.

Quality counts, not just in editorial, but in customers

Within recent memory, circulators were bedevilled by publishers who wanted more subscribers, period. It didn't matter who they were, or what quality; the company strategy was pinned on getting a lot of them and then charging advertisers for access to them. As a result, magazine databases became bloated with marginal customers who didn't really care about them and who had to be bribed to subscribe

Monday, September 14, 2009

London pub toilet vandalism

Events plural




So these two fall on the same day, at around the same time and quite near each other, I know, what a crazy mixed up world we live in right?
What's sweet is we get to go to both and have a really good time. Bingo.

Event



Those rather nice chaps, the Deathtrap MC are having a party in Copperopolis, Nor Cal, October 3rd. The bar is splendid, one of the oldest in CA and the roads around those there parts are some of the best California has to offer.

bikes




Justin's Vincent and Nicks pan, both from issue 28.

Better Farming magazine field editor wins two major farm writing awards

A London, Ontario journalist who is a field editor for the magazine Better Farming, has won two prestigious awards from this year’s Canadian Farm Writers’ and Broadcasters’ awards competition.Mary Baxter was awarded the Jack Cram gold award for monthly press reporting and the Dick Beamish silver award for press feature. The awards were announced at the federation's annual conference, held this