Archive for category: The print medium

The magazine’s oppressive Adobe Caslon    (2010.01.06)

Suddenly the shittily-designed and -typeset New Yorker has an “oppressive font”

Shorter Jesse Ashlock    (2010.01.06)

I.D.’s last editor is in denial

Update for Liz Spiers    (2009.12.29)

Elizabeth Spiers makes another mistake

Magazine deathwatch (2)    (2009.12.22)

Do you believe a “digital magazine” should have “pages”? Do you believe the “pages” of a “digital magazine” should “flip”?

Magazine deathwatch (1)    (2009.12.21)

First in a series on how the magazine industry is the architect of its own doom. Today: Why did Magazines Canada hand$172,500 of government money to the Americans?

Conversations with an agent    (2009.12.10)

Conversations with an agent. First of a series

Correcting the lower orders    (2009.12.08)

Correcting half a dozen Tumblr users on what they got wrong with publisher accountability

Publisher accountability (1)    (2009.12.07)

First in a series of posts documenting responses from, and misdeeds by, book publishers

Buying Tools of Change a new toolbelt    (2009.11.04)

Unfucking O’Reilly’s Tools of Change transcript