Magazines and Delicious

Delicious: a social bookmarking site so that you can access your links from any computer, share them with your friends, or share them with the world. It’s easy to see the personal uses of Delicious, but what about other uses?

Video Content on Magazine Websites

You see it all the time on YouTube. How-to videos for applying makeup, cooking a recipe, or even build a chair frame. So why don’t magazines, which provide advice about makeup, cooking, and chairs (well, for a carpentry magazine, anyway!) have more videos on their websites to demonstrate these techniques?

Tweet on Twitter? Well, Magazines Should!

I don’t use Twitter (wow, this is sounding like my “I don’t have Facebook” post, but I don’t have any strong objects to Twitter) at present, because I don’t think I have anything worth “tweeting” about. Plus, I still find Twitter to be somewhat confusing. I do, however, read Twitters that I’m fond of– for fictional characters in a webcomic that I read on a regular basis, or for magazines. I don’t look at the Twitters of people I know because, honestly, I don’t really need to know if they’re working on a project, going to go have a shower, or … anything more personal than that.

I do, however, read about Twitter. I read the article “How magazines should use Twitter“, for example. Note that the title doesn’t question if a magazine should use Twitter, but rather, assumes that the magazine does use Twitter or, if they don’t, implies that they should hurry up and start “tweeting”.

Books and Magazines Kill Trees

It’s true, unfortunately. Books and magazines are made from paper, and paper comes from trees. The Publishing industry can be incredibly wasteful – for example, a large percentage of magazines that are printed are never sold. They’re returned to the publisher, where they’re destroyed. Even if that matter is recycled, a tree was killed once-upon-a-time for the paper to be made in the first place.