Tweet Not only was it a brutal month for the economy, but for print media as well. As October drew to a close, the Christian Science Monitor announced that it was discontinuing its daily paper edition, changing it to a weekly paper edition and publishing daily updates to its website. In addition, PaidContent.org announced that my former company, Time Inc, would be restructuring a number of major titles into the News Business Unit, while the NYTime.com forecast that Time Inc would shed 600 jobs because

Tweet One great thing about blogging and the web overall is that well-written content can continue being read and discussed long after it originally appeared in print or was first published online. The New Yorker’s Innovation issue is a case in point, especially the profile of Pascal Dangin, the master of retouching fashion photos, entitled Pixel Perfect. One thing that writer Lauren Collins did very well in the article was objectively describe Mr. Dangin’s successful career in building his digital photo retouching company, Box Studios,

Tweet My friend Fernando Bravo at Grupo Editorial Expansion introduced me to the folks at Quo España via email, so I stopped by for a visit. Interesting to hear about what they are doing compared to what Quo Mexico is doing. Our web sites are especially different. Quo Mexico’s site hasn’t been redesigned in a while. Quo España’s site is currently part of France Telecom’s network – Orange – although they indicated that they may take it back and build up a business on their

Tweet Here is something that is totally foreign to North American travelers: on-train magazines. That’s right…just like in-flight magazines but on the train. I neglected to mention on my previous post that when I took the high-speed train from Madrid to Barcelona that I read my first on-train magazine: Pasajes, which is produced by the editorial company COMFERSA here in Spain. In addition to the magazine for Renfe’s AVE (high-speed) train, they also have a magazine for their regular trains called En Punto. Will Amtrak