"Holiday is a testament to the fact that some things still manage to get lost in an age when almost everything is archived, or at least mentioned, online. As far as I can tell, no one seems to care much about the legacy of Holiday, and no archive exists. By now I own some forty copies of the magazine. I may be the archive."

"It’s bordering on obstinate to think that something you care so much about can be salvaged by doing more or less the same thing that has failed magazines so consistently until now: continuing to ignore the fundamentals of digital user experience design and how they diverge from analog print design."

"And those who aren’t subscribers, well if they’re not willing to buy in for the actual magazine at like practically nothing a year, why would they pay for their iPad edition, which actually, in the case of Vanity Fair, costs $4.99 for the first issue? I mean, on the same web page that announces their $4.99 iPad app, up top they’re trumpeting their 'ONLY $1 an issue' subscription rate. How is that even happening?"

"There is no doubt that what you want in a magazine will change. We recognize that readers use our publication in different ways. Some of you read it cover to cover; others prefer to read the features and personality profiles first, while others jump straight to the graded stakes section to learn about the connections of the previous week’s stakes winners. Many of you have embraced the Web as a great supplement to the print magazine and dive right into its constant stream of news and information. As your habits change, we need to respond by shaping the design and content of our magazine to suit you."

"If Newsweek.com should cease to exist, here’s what we wonder: What will be the ramifications for Newsweek’s Web presence in terms of SEO? For branding? For our partnerships with MSNBC and MSN? What happens to Newsweek’s (still-unleveraged) archives? How do you preserve a 'national treasure' (as Harman has called it) without a Web presence bearing its name?"

"What is important is that these print version be quality — good covers, excellent paper, binding that doesn’t fall apart. Handmade, one-of-a-kind, original, limited edition, personal. The shift to digital reading is taking place rapidly, and there will be a point in the not-too-distant future where we stop thinking either/or and embrace either/and."

"The all-knowing aggregation of weekly events has become outmoded. Life, Saturday Review, and Collier’s Weekly have expired; Newsweek, Time, and U.S. News and World Report are mortally adrift, dinosaurs in the age before the meteor. What has arisen in their place is a breed of daily, Web-only news sites, updated by the hour and minute, full of logorrheic opinion and cannibalized reporting. Huffington Post, the Daily Beast, Gawker, Politico, these are our Newsweek, our Time, our Life -- for better and worse."

"Different mediums have different strengths. The web is just better than paper at delivering time-sensitive news. It’s idiotic to pretend otherwise. And paper is still good at things the web is not, especially in getting people to actually pay for it. The solution is to use each medium for what it’s good at."

... the now-former web editor of Harper's Magazine. "I could have been a respected editor instead of a huge nerd. But all the editing in the world can't compare to building little websites and mangling text and writing things and messing around in spreadsheets and figuring out what's wrong with comments. I wake up thinking about how all the pieces fit together ..."

CJR surveys 665 magazines about web site practices. Selected findings: "Magazine Web sites are most likely to be profitable when budget decisions are made by the publisher or an independent Web editor." (In other words, when sites are overseen by people without a vested interest in maintaining print dominance.) "Despite the fact that two-thirds of respondents’ staff are expected to work on the Web at least some of the time, only 26 percent of those staffers were hired with Web experience." (That's just depressing.) Much handwringing about "traditional standards" in decline on web sites, but it seems a fundamental error to assume print practices are best practices online.

Mentions MagCloud, Printcasting.

"Sassy for the intellectual set." Not Double X.

Collapse print and web departments into one; focus on content, not medium. "If the question 'Is this for print or online?' keeps coming up in your organization, you’re doing it wrong."

"Simple, pragmatic advice on the business of creativity." My model! "DBR is a quick-to-market publication, with a focus on speed and agility over high production value or glossy spreads. This means our blog is a rapidly-deployed version of Wordpress, our layout is fast-and-dirty, and there are no pictures. As our revenues increase, so will the publication grow both in substance and in style; there are plenty of publications that deal with the art side ... it’s time we got down to the business side."

On-demand magazine printing.

Slate launches a new pop-policy magazine for women.

"Context is as important today as content. It may, in fact, be the new king on the throne. That’s because the world is evolving into niche communities, organized around individual interests and passions. Keeping your audience deeply engaged in the journalism you do is necessary to induce loyalty to your brand."

"While advertisers are increasingly interested in online platforms, an Internet-ad dollar is still not the same as a print-ad dollar. The price of advertising is measured in CPM, or cost per thousand readers; one media expert estimates that online CPM is worth between one-seventh and one-tenth of a print CPM. This means that swapping out online-for-print publication right now literally amounts to trading in dollars for pennies—which is hardly an alluring prospect for publishing companies used to commanding lavish ad revenues. 'No one has figured out how to make real money from online content,' says Glynnis MacNichol, editor of Mediabistro.com's FishbowlNY. 'The print ad structure can't keep up with the technology.'" And that's the problem, this assumption that the print ad structure must be translated. A new model has to be be created, publishers have to get away from thinking in CPMs.

Redesigning the venerable Atlantic: A look at the process that led to the new nameplate (inspired by a previous incarnation of the magazine referenced on Mad Men, which is turning out to be the influence on design I predicted earlier this year) and layout.

Harper's archive of DFW work

An amazing trove of sports articles and photographs, including some fantastic racing stuff