Manzine is a quirky, DIY take on the male glossy magazine. It’s produced by a group of writers and designers who work for the likes of The Guardian and British GQ. The zine’s lo-fi materials (it looks photocopied), obscure articles and generally rough-hewn aesthetic give Manzine a distinctive quality...
Many local newspapers are struggling just now but some are showing real resilience. What’s their secret? Tindle Newspapers owns over 200 local papers and is Britain’s tenth-largest local-news publisher. It’s run by Sir Ray Tindle, an octogenarian who believes that local news should be, well, local. When...
Rupert Murdoch seems to think that you will. After the huge financial losses just announced by News Corp, Murdoch has decreed that, possibly from as soon as next year, he will charge for all his newspaper websites including The Times and The Sun. It isn't clear whether this will extend to broadcast...
How come The Economist is so successful when so many other weekly news magazines aren’t? Michael Hirschorn of The Atlantic magazine identifies several possible reasons: 1. Quality and breadth – ‘The Economist is truly a remarkable invention. This weekly newspaper, as it calls itself, canvasses the globe...
Interestingly I wrote this last week and the debate has now moved on however I felt quite strongly when I read of the recent lobbying by major media companies in the US to force Google to make them appear top of its natural search results for news stories and decided to post anyway. It is supreme arrogance...
Think like Wordia, a visual dictionary that encourages members of the public to contribute to a collective pool of video definitions. As with any online dictionary, users can search for the traditional meaning of a word, thanks to the involvement of HarperCollins, with 76,000 words and 120,000 basic...
Think like Future Me, which allows you to write an email to your future self. In a year, two years, even ten years from now, an email will pop into your inbox from your younger self. Will you be who you hoped you would be? Will you still care about the things that were important to your younger self...
