Mike Butcher » Magazines http://mbites.com Wed, 08 Feb 2012 12:30:29 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Is The Standard coming back? http://mbites.com/2007/09/14/is_the_standard_coming_back/ http://mbites.com/2007/09/14/is_the_standard_coming_back/#comments Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 Mike Butcher http://dev.mbites.com/?p=147 Comingback

The Industry Standard, my former magazine, appears to be considering re-launching. Its six years since the death of the “newsmagazine of the Internet Economy�, but at least it left a good looking corpse. Many people still respect the kind of in-depth investigate coverage it brought to the Internet industry.

Quite why owners IDG are considering bringing it back is beyond me. Time-Warner pulled the plug on Business 2.0, a similar title, only last week.

A web-only format is more likely than a print magazine. And since blogs are now ‘the thing’, it would be odd not to incorporate those., We’ll see….

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]]> http://mbites.com/2007/05/23/press_gazette_relaunches_site/feed/ 0 Time magazine downsizes to meet online challenge http://mbites.com/2007/01/20/time_magazine_downsizes_to_meet_online_challenge/ http://mbites.com/2007/01/20/time_magazine_downsizes_to_meet_online_challenge/#comments Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 Mike Butcher http://dev.mbites.com/?p=152 Time magazine is among the latest large media owner to realise that the Internet is not a place where you spend a lot of money. In fact, it’s so efficient at disintermediating the income streams of traditional media companies who mainly play in print, that they are having to cut staff and put what resources they have left online. This something UK Press Gazette failed to realise and paid the price for last year.

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]]> http://mbites.com/2006/07/11/new_web_magazine_for_online_retail_boom/feed/ 0 Bespoke tailor gets 300pc sales rise out of his blog http://mbites.com/2006/03/27/bespoke_tailor_gets_300pc_sales_rise_out_of_his_blog/ http://mbites.com/2006/03/27/bespoke_tailor_gets_300pc_sales_rise_out_of_his_blog/#comments Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 Mike Butcher http://dev.mbites.com/?p=125 Hugh Macleod, spoke about how he had worked with Thomas Mahon, bespoke Savile Row tailor, to launch English Cut.

He says having a blog was much easier to "control the conversation" than going through mainstream media – especially after being strung along by some national newspaper journalists, attempting to get media profile.

Since they launched the blog, inside 6 months he saw a 300% rise in sales.

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