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It seems similar to the format you're imagining and was definitely successful from a quality standpoint. The people who read it, enjoyed reading it.
That's different than saying it was a huge commercial success or that there's so much good writing that you could fill a themed magazine each month.
Make it a free daily in big cities, so the content is only 24-72 hours older than when it was blogged, and it might work.
Make it a free daily in big cities, so the content is only 24-72 hours older than when it was blogged, and it might work.
I doubt it, but it's a cool enough idea that I'd like to see someone try.
Based on this sample of one, your doubts are justified: These guys went out of business in a bit less than 1 year.
Of course, there's a lot of ways to run a paper or magazine, so maybe a different approach would have worked better. I never found Boston NOW especially interesting... it was mostly wire-service filler with a sprinkling of no-name bloggers.
I'm thinking more along the lines of businesspeople - "Blogs for the rest of us" you could say. Is there a potential demand for blogs off of the internet?
1) Why does everyone think that they'll have trouble from blogs for republishing? It's huge extra exposure - I feel that you'll get tons of people interested.
2) Go away from publishing blog posts to stories about the bloggers (egos), about how they started their idea, features on getting started, new stories by bloggers, etc. The TOPIC is blogging, not the posts that they've written. Remember that and you have your focus.
3) It's simply not a topic covered by any major magazine
The bad -
1) Magazines are indeed dying. Ad revenues are down and continue to drop.
2) It's ironic to cover such a new media with such an old one and the irony will hit people as they read it.
3) You're going to need a good deal of money to start this up and do circulation.
Actually, despite its, uh, antiquity, I like this idea. Let me explain. 1) Why does everyone think that they'll have trouble from blogs for republishing? It's huge extra exposure - I feel that you'll get tons of people interested. 2) Go away from publishing blog posts to stories about the bloggers (egos), about how they started their idea, features on getting started, new stories by bloggers, etc. The TOPIC is bloggi…
I'm liking the idea of getting it in an area where the readers may not have access to the internet (specifically plane rides). If I know I'm going to be on the plane for 4 hours and I can't use my laptop for the internet, what better way to calm the panic than by having a magazine full of 10-15 or so blogs that I can read?
Why don't you publish your magazine online? There's alltop.com that does something like this already, but I can see ways to make it better.
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I doubt it, but it's a cool enough idea that I'd like to see someone try.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Now Based on this sample of one, your doubts are justified: These guys went out of business in a bit less than 1 year. Of course, there's a lot of ways to run a paper or magazine, so maybe a different approach would have worked better. I never found Boston NOW especially interesting... it was mostly wire-service filler with a sprinkling of no-name bloggers.