“Things would be a lot different”, muses Dave Pell, “if you had to deliver your status updates on horseback.”

“I can either be a guy who writes novels, or I can be a guy who answers email. Realizing I cannot be both, I’ve made the decision, and now I live with it.” Merlin Mann, paraphrasing Neal Stephenson, on creating the time to be creative.

“Newsweek is for sale. While sad, it’s also an amazing opportunity to reinvent what a newsweekly could be. And it got me thinking.  If I was in charge of a newsweekly, here’s what I would do…” Derek Powazek, on how to save a newsweekly.

48HR Magazine is what you get when you throw together a bunch of people who actually recognise that print and online media can work together. “48HR Magazine is an experiment to see what you can do [applying] new tools [to] old media,” says Alexis Madrigal.


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  1. That Merlin Mann link is awesome. Thanks for the heads up.