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An architect restores her own century-old house, consulting vintage photos to see the way it was before modern "improvements."
Architect Leah Ryan opened up the floor plan of her century-old home in Minneapolis to better accommodate modern living. Salvaged columns help to define the space.
Photo: JOEL KOYAMA, Star Tribune
When Leah Ryan first encountered her future home, she could see it had fallen victim to a series of well-intentioned but unfortunate makeovers.
The 1906 foursquare was wrapped in beige vinyl siding. Heavy maroon awnings and black shutters buried the windows. The original porch had been torn off years ago, replaced with a stoop. A rickety carport clung to the side of the house.
But Ryan, an architect who specializes in restoring historic homes, could see the house's potential. Peel back all those "improvements," and many of the house's original features had been preserved.
"They were all things that were easy to remove without damaging the house," she said. Better still, the woman selling the house had lived there for 47 years. She happily shared old photos and stories that served as a road map for Ryan's renovation.
Ryan meticulously restored the house's best original features, including ornate woodwork and Palladian windows, to create a space that captures the grace and elegance of times past. But she didn't want to live in a stodgy time capsule. So she also tore down walls and reworked the closed-in kitchen and tight bedrooms so the home feels comfortable for modern living.
"Obviously in these older homes, the rooms were more segmented. They probably had maids or servants," Ryan said. "But creating an open floor plan is just more in keeping with how people live today."
The right neighborhood
Ryan and her husband, Mike, also an architect, moved from New York City to Minneapolis in 2010. They combed Minneapolis' historic neighborhoods for more than a year looking for their first house.
"I wanted a walking neighborhood … that felt like a community and had a sense of place, of character," Ryan explained.
They finally selected the foursquare ripe for renovation in the Lynnhurst neighborhood of southwest Minneapolis. The house had 2,200 square feet on three levels, plus an unfinished basement.
They closed on the house in August, moved to Minnesota in September and began construction just a few weeks later — "as quickly as we could get drawings together," she said.
Ryan pored over old photographs of the house, reveling in the historical detective aspects of her project. One photo, taken shortly after the house was built, shows it surrounded by pasture.
"You can see there are cows in the picture," she said. One great discovery was the house's original cedar siding, underneath the vinyl, which Ryan restored.
She also rebuilt the front porch, complete with a swing, relying on the old photos for reference.
Finally, she added a two-stall garage at the rear of the house, using modern materials, including fiber-cement siding, but making sure the overall look was compatible with the home's vintage character.
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Inside, modern conveniences are disguised throughout the house.
The first surprise is in the living room. A vintage map over the fireplace slides back to reveal a flat-screen TV. The fireplace hearth and mantel look original to the house but were added by Ryan to provide a warming focal point. Ryan also matched all the carved details in the mantel to woodwork along the stairway.


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New York-based Jewish Daily Forward has appointed three new staffers to its management team.
Dave Goldiner has been with the Forward since last summer, as a temporary maternity replacement for the director of digital media, Gabrielle Birkner. In the new position of deputy director of digital media, Goldiner will report directly to Birkner.
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Windows in God mode? On first instance this looks joke but it is true and NOT A JOKE. God mode makes you true Windows God allowing you to access all Windows settings without having to click or hop between different dialog windows. You can open God Mode in Windows 7, Vista 32 bit and Windows Server 2008 (32 bit) operating systems.
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It is now a well-established fact that the competence of a preschool curriculum has a significant impact during the child's early developmental years. It is this segment of Early Childhood Learning and Development that BACHPAN.. a play school caters to.
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Why not release them back to their own country?
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Hypertensive heart disease
Hypertensive heart disease refers to heart problems that occur because of high blood pressure. These problems include:
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Causes, incidence, and risk factors
High blood pressure means the pressure inside the blood vessels (called arteries) is too high. As the heart pumps against this pressure, it must work harder. Over time, this causes the heart muscle to thicken.
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- Do not stop or change high blood pressure medications, except on the advice of your health care provider.
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Massie BM. Heart failure: pathophysiology and diagnosis. In: Goldman L, Schafer AI, eds. Cecil Medicine. 24th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier; 2011:chap 58.
Victor RG. Arterial hypertension. In: Goldman L, Schafer AI, eds. Cecil Medicine. 24th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier; 2011:chap 67.
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Can You Lay Tile Directly Over a Plywood Subfloor?By: Danny Lipford
I'm tiling an upstairs bathroom. The floor is plywood, and I'm hesitant about using Hardie backer board because the height of the floor will be too high. Can you tile directly to plywood with thinset? -Chris
Hi Chris,
While you can lay tile directly over a concrete slab using thin-set adhesive, don't make the mistake of applying tile directly to a plywood subfloor. No matter how firm the subfloor; the plywood will expand and contract at a different rate as the tile, causing cracks to develop in the grout lines or tiles over time.
On a plywood subfloor, you need either a layer of cement backer board or an underlayment membrane, like Schluter-Ditra, between the subfloor and tile for the thin-set adhesive to achieve a good bond.
While I prefer using 1/2" cement backer board over a plywood subfloor, you may be able to get by with 1/4" backer board instead. Even if you use a waterproof underlayment membrane, such as Ditra, the floor will still be either 1/4″ or 1/2" higher than the subfloor, plus the thickness of the tile and adhesive.
When applying cement backer board over a plywood subfloor, be sure to adhere the two surfaces together with thin-set adhesive; and screw the cement backer board down with special screws that countersink into the backer board, such as Backer-On screws available at The Home Depot.
Good luck with your project,
Further Information
- Installing Tile Over a Wood Subfloor (article)
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- How to Lay a Tile Floor (article)
- How to Lay Tile Over an Existing Vinyl Floor (video/article)
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December 7th, 2011 at 8:47 pm
I've discovered an area of rot in my plywood subfloor between my bath tub and toilet. To my surprise, the marble tiles were laid directly on top of this plywood without cementboard (probably because the toilet drain calls for a rear flush model, and cementboard would have disrupted where the toilet and drain met).
If I had the time to be meticulous, I'd open pandora's box and do the whole thing right- But I dont.
My question is whether or not I can replace the rotted subfloor with a thinner plywood and then cementboard to meet the current subfloor height, or am I in over my head with this fix?
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May 10th, 2012 at 6:27 pm
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Vogueãs Wintour Gets ASMEãs Hall of Fame NodJason Fell
Vogueãs high pharaoh of fashion, the prickly Anna Wintour, has received a high honor from the American Society of Magazine Editors. No, itãs not a new pair of her signature sunglasses. The group has elected the devilish editrix to its Magazine Editorãs Hall of Fame.
Wintour [pictured] officially will be honored at the annual National Magazine Awards ceremony scheduled for April 22 in New York City.
Her election to the Hall is no big shocker, really. Sheãs easily one of the most recognizable magazine editorsãif not by name then by appearanceãand has steered one of the industryãs biggest brands for more than two decades.
Wintour began her fashion career in London in 1970 and launched into magazines six years later at Harperãs Bazaar. She later served as a senior editor at New York before transitioning to Vogue in 1983 as creative director. After a stint as editor-in-chief at British Vogue and as editor at HG, Wintour returned to the U.S. brand of Vogue as editor-in-chief in July 1988, where she currently resides, serving as editorial director.
Sure, sheãs been the target of some criticism and jokes and movies over the years, but that comes with the territory. Itãs about time ASME recognized Wintour. She joins fellow Hall of Fame inductees including Hugh Hefner, Martha Stewart, Tina Brown and Jann Wenner.
A Look At Wiredãs Tablet Application ProjectJason Fell
The stampede of iPad application unveilings has begun.
Time Inc.ãs Sports Illustrated was the first, that I recall, to roll out a video demo of the splashy app itãs been developing for Appleãs iPad device. Now comes Condûˋ Nastãs Wired, which on Tuesday posted a video to its Web site promoting its new ãWired Readerã app. Back in November, Wired said it was working with Adobe to build a magazine application that will enable the publisher to deploy its magazines on a number of digital devices, including computers, smartphones and color e-readersãincluding the iPad. They were using Adobeãs Air free cross-platform runtimeãa piece of foundation software that can run different programs on top of it.
See the Wired video below.
In the post yesterday, Wired editor Chris Anderson called the iPad tablet a ãgroundbreaking opportunity for magazines such as ours.ã ãThe point here is that we are entering a new era of media, where we finally have a digital platform that allows us to retain all the rich visual features of high-gloss print, from lavish design to glorious photography, while augmenting it with video, animations, additional content and full interactivity.ã
Anderson noted that although the Wired Reader starts as an Air app, Adobe has created tools that allow publishers to convert it for tablet and mobile platforms. The project was officially unveiled last week at the Technology, Entertainment and Design conference.
In Wiredãs four-minute video, Anderson called the project an ãopportunity to reset the economics. For the first time, people may value this experience so much that theyãll pay for it.ã Presumably heãs talking not only about readers but advertisers, too.
From watching the video, it appears that Wired is doing a pretty impressive job of bringing the printed, glossy page to life in a digital platform with video, scrolling, zoom and other spiffy navigation features. The app also incorporates social media functionality like story sharing and Twitter/Facebook access.
Kudos to Wired. The video doesnãt explain away a lot of the issues publishers are grappling withãR&D costs, design, pricing, etc.ãbut I wouldnãt expect it to. As Condûˋ Nast continues to develop iPad apps for GQ and Vanity Fair, this looks like a solid step in the right direction.
SI.comãs Swimsuit Package Draws Siteãs Second-Biggest Traffic DayJason Fell
For the third straight year, Time Inc.ãs Sports Illustrated unveiled its highly anticipated franchise powerhouse, the Swimsuit Issue, Monday night on CBSã Late Show with David Letterman. For those of you living under rocks, this yearãs sultry cover model is Brooklyn Decker, wife of tennis star Andy Roddick.
Wasting no time, SI posted the behemoth 2010 swimsuit package online, packed with more than 1,400 photos and 100 videos of all the scantily-clan models taken during their lush/exotic/(add suggestive adjective here) photo shoots. Sounds like a recipe for some server-testing traffic. And it was.
SI.com said the package drew 42.2 million page views, an increase of 14 percent over 37 million last year. Meanwhile, the number of unique visitors during the first day soared 85 percent to 2.3 million. Video views totaled 7.1 million, a 126 percent bump from 2009.
Overall, SI.com said Tuesday was the siteãs second-highest trafficked day (behind the February 15, 2007 Swimsuit Issue unveiling), with 3.633 million unique visitors.
With all the attention SIãs Swimsuit Issue gets, the magazineãs online success isn't overly suprising. (What is surprising is that I still havenãt made it through the whole thing yet.) Whatãs important here is the continued success the issue has had monetarily. The overall franchiseãwhich I assume generates a sizable chunk of the brandãs annual revenuesãthis year was up 15 percent in revenues over 2009. The magazine carried 67 ads, which was roughly flat over last year.
Thatãs pretty good considering how bad the ad market has been.
For now, we can only wait and see if Decker and her bikini-clad ladies can move issues off the newsstands and on mobile in record-setting numbers.
Busted! Media Gets Burned on iPad Unveiling PrankJason Fell
The technology and publishing worlds held their collective breaths last Wednesday, awaiting Appleãs unveiling of its iPad tablet device. However, according to his Twitter feed, outspoken Weblogs Inc. founder and Mahalo.com CEO Jason Calacanis had beaten us all to the chase. On the eve of the unveiling, he informed his more than 90,000 followers that he already had the tablet device and had been beta testing it for 10 days.
ãYes, itãs trueãÎ Iãve been beta testing the Apple tablet for the past two weeks and itãs amazingã read one of Calacanisã tweets. Here are two more:
@Jason: the apple tablet is running an iphone oc flavor with ability to have multiple apps running at same time (ie pandora, browser
@Jason: Ok, Iãm going to bed (with apple tablet after reading nytimes + Vanity Fair on it!), steve jobs outdid himself, its greatest device ever!!!
He also claimed the device includes wireless charging, face recognition and an ãinsaneã Farmville app.
Wait, what? First of all, Iãm pretty sure Apple doesnãt hand out forthcoming devices to beta testers. And, as we found out when Apple CEO Steve Jobs unveiled the device, a lot of the functions Calacanis tweeted about donãt in fact exist on the iPad.
It was all a prank. A joke. Calacanis squashed any speculation about the validity of his tweets the following day by linking to a YouTube video called ãJason Calacanis Destroys Tech ãJournalism.ãã
But, of course, not everyone in media got the joke. The Wall Street Journal, BusinessInsiderãeven TechCrunchãran items the morning of the big unveiling about Calacanisã claims.
ãMainstream media journalists are so on tilt because of bloggers scooping them that I think that at one in the morning, two in the morning, maybe they lost a little bit of common sense to get a jump on the story to get the pages, to get up on Techmeme, to get the tweet out first,ã Calacanis [pictured] said in a recent video interview with All Things Digitalãs Kara Swisher. ãI think the people who made the mistakes should say they screwed up and that Jason was obviously joking.ã
When Swisher asked Calacanis if he should have pulled the prank in the first place, he replied: ãWell, it has been a pretty amusing 48 hours, and I did add 10,000 more Twitter followers. It will only make my reputation more controversial, which I love. And, there were 732 more inbound links to Mahalo.ã
Clearly, this goes to show that journalists need to fact-check their stories before posting them (uh, duh). This also goes to show that as more and more journalists become dependent on social media for tips and background for stories, they should be far more skeptical of the information they find there if they donãt want to get burned.
[Image via All Things Digital]
Reaction to Appleãs iPad UnveilingJason Fell
The anticipation today ran thick. I almost passed out at my desk awaiting the news.
Wednesday afternoon, at an event in San Francisco, Apple co-founder/CEO Steve Jobs unveiled the companyãs much hyped tablet device. Called the iPad, it enables users to browse the Web, read e-books, watch videos, listen to music and play games, among other things. The iPad has a multi-touch screen with a virtual keyboard and is available with 16, 32, or 64 GB of SSD storage. (The device will sell for $499 for 16GB of memory, $599 for 32GB and $699 for 64GB.)
At the event, Jobs said the Wi-Fi version will be available in 60 days, while the 3G version will be available in 90 days.
So far, the iPad has major book publishers on board and a version of the New York Times has been adapted for the device.
OK, so maybe I didnãt really almost pass out at my desk, but I did follow some live blogging about the unveiling. I thought it strange that as much talk as there had been about the device being a ãgame changerã for newspaper and magazine publishers that Jobs made no mention of magazine clients at the unveiling.
Sure, Apple got some things right, and some things wrong. But, either way, will consumers want it? Will it in fact change the way they consume magazines and newspapers?
I reached out over Twitter to get some initial feedback from our followers. Hereãs a sampling of the responses weãve received so far. Leave yours in the comment section below.
@mattrett: Worst name ever = 1st thought.
@pacificweddings: awesome! I want one.
@givingcity: Are they really calling it iPad? Seriously? Did they ask any women at all before they came up with this clever mark?
@breizh2008: Awesome !
@marcusgrimm: Priced to make an impact. Given the large format, though, publishers will need to think how an app is different than the website.
@mcnamdave: Surprised by the low price, lack of multitasking and camera etc... Underwhelmed on the whole.. Game changer? NO, Player, YES
@Ana_P_Rodrigues: I want an i-Pad! I want an i-Pad! I want an i-Pad! I want an i-Pad!
@henrydonahue: why no mags on #ipad? 1) limits of rich media on 3G 2) pubs want customer info 3) expense ($629 + $30/mo.?)= lack of ubiquity
What Happens If (When) Big Trade Publishers Stop Publishing Magazines?Jason Fell
Some recent events have pointed to the acceleration of two trade publishing giants leaving the magazine publishing industry.
After a failed auction in 2008 and closing all but one of the magazines published under its Associated Construction Publications group last spring, Reed Business Information in July said it was putting its portfolio of U.S.-based titles back on the block. Last month, it sold Broadcasting & Cable, Multichannel News and This Week in Consumer Electronics (TWICE) to Wicks Group-owned NewBay Media. And this month it ceased publication of Video Business, Manufacturing Business Technology and Industrial Distribution.
When it said it was putting its U.S.-based titles back on the block, RBI said it would retain its Reed Construction Data, RSMeans, Variety, MarketCast, LA411 and BuyerZone properties. Now, it seems even flagship Variety could be sold off.
Last month, Nielsen Business Media caused a stir when it agreed to sell eight of its media/entertainment brandsãincluding Billboard and The Hollywood Reporterãto e5 Global Media, a new company formed by private equity firm Pluribus Capital Management and financial services firm Guggenheim Partners. The publisher then decided to shutter heralded newspaper industry magazine Editor & Publisher, along with sister publication Kirkus Reviews. (E&P has since been sold to a new owner.)
Now, president Greg Farrar is leaving the company and Nielsen said it does not have plans to name a replacement. After a "transition period," senior vice president Andy Bilbao will oversee Nielsen's magazines that are not associated with trade shows, while the company evaluates "strategic alternatives."
As of today, Nielsen still publishes 19 magazines.
Nielsenãwhose parent company has been focused on its ratings businessãfor years has reportedly been looking for a buyer(s) for its trade magazines. Itãs no wonder. Through the first nine months of 2009, Nielsen reported a $151 million operating loss for its business media segment, compared to an $85 million operating income during the same period in 2008. Revenues for the segment through the third quarter were $258 million, down more than 30 percent from $371 million during the same period last year.
Shortly before the New Year, FOLIO: spoke to a source with knowledge of Nielsen who said that insiders were saying the company was working on a deal to sell its three-magazine food group and said Nielsenãs travel group might also be on the block. The source said Nielsen most likely would use the proceeds from the e5 deal and any subsequent asset sale to either reposition or shut down its other magazine properties.
ãWhen business was good, publishing was not strategic to the Nielsen Company. When business is bad, they want the hell out,ã another knowledgeable source, who also wished to remain anonymous, told me this week. ãIf Nielsen sold its crown jewels, namely Billboard, THR, Adweek, etc., then why wouldnãt it sell off the remainder of its publishing assets?ã
I asked Nielsenãs spokesperson Wednesday if the company was working on additional divestitures and if it is attempting to exit the trade magazine publishing business altogether. Her response, not surprisingly, was more of the same: ãWe are continuing to access the strategic fit of the remaining publications, but there are no immediate plans at this time.ã
Itãs no secret that trade magazine publishing is hurting right now and that revenues, especially from print, probably wonãt rebound to levels seen before the economic fallout. Perhaps the bigger issue here is if major players like Nielsen and RBI are moving away from magazine publishing, then what, if anything, does that say about the sustainability and the future of the business for the rest of us?
New Owner: Editor & Publisher 'More Vital Than Ever'Jason Fell
The fate of 126-year-old Editor & Publisher is no longer drifting in uncertain waters. The shuttered newspaper magazine was acquired Thursday evening by Duncan McIntosh Co. Inc., the Irvine, California-based publisher of Boating World, Sea Magazine and The Log newspaper.
Wait, what? Why in the world would the publisher of boating magazines want to buy a big-name property that covers the newspaper industry?
"I published newspapers when I first got into this business and have been reading Editor & Publisher on and off for more than 30 years," Duncan McIntosh told me over the phone today. "I heard about its closing and thought to myself, 'That can't be.' I started sending e-mails to Nielsen until someone would finally talk to us. And, now, here we are."
Nielsen closed E&P, along with sister publications Kirkus Reviews, last month after it announced the sale of eight media/entertainment brandsãincluding Billboard and The Hollywood Reporterãto e5 Global Media, a new company formed by private equity firm Pluribus Capital Management and financial services firm Guggenheim Partners.
The newspaper industry's dramatic decline, Duncan said, is what made saving E&P so important. "When do you need a magazine like Editor & Publisher more? When everything is going great or in a tie of crisis,"he said. "It's more vital now than ever."
OK. But how is a newspaper magazine going to mesh with his stable of boating publications?ô "Maybe I'm not cerebral enough to worry about things like that, but I don't think it will be a problem," said Duncan."The back end, in terms of production, IT and Web, is the same regardless of the publication. As long as I have separate ad staffs and separate editorial staffs, everything else is the same. We think we can supply all the support services for it, we can bring it into a structure with a much lower overhead, and make it viable."
In terms of editorial direction, Duncan said E&P is and has been right on course, producing best practice-type content for publishers. He said he has no immediate plans to change the magazine's monthly frequency or circulation.
"The magazine has a great staff and we were lucky enough to keep about 80 percent of them," he said. E&P's former editor-at-large, Mark Fitzgerald, will now serve as editor, replacing former editor Greg Mitchell, who is no longer with the magazine. Charles McKeown will continue as publisher.
This isn't the first time we've seen a big b-to-b player shutter a magazine, only to be contacted by a smaller publisher who wants to acquire it. Last April, Reed Business Information shuttered all but one of the magazines published under its Associated Construction Publications Group, which consisted of 14 regional construction titles. John White, the original co-owner of the ACP titles, then reaquired the licenses and relaunched them gradually before the end of the year.
Only 18 Consumer Magazines Grew Ad Pages in 2009Jason Fell
Magazine advertising revenue is down. Way down. We know this. Do we need any more reminders?
Needed or not, the Publishers Information Bureau Tuesday released its 2009 year-end magazine advertising report. It revealed that ad pages for 2009 were down 25.6 percent, while estimated revenues closed at $19.45 billion, a drop of 18.1 percent.
While anyone could have guessed that it would spell yet another quarterly decline (the 10th out of 11 since PIB began reporting on a quarterly basis in mid-2007, to be exact) I couldnãt have projected (or perhaps didnãt want to) that a mere 18 magazines would post ad page gains for the 12-month period.
Thatãs right. Only 18.
The biggest gainers among them were Time Inc.ãs fashion product title People Style Watch (+24.4 percent), OK! (+20.7) and Bonnierãs Saveur (+12.6). Not far behind were Family Circle (+11.5 percent), Scholastic Parent & Child (+9.6), The Week (+9.5) and Fitness (+9.1). Kudos to all of them.
Then, unfortunately, come the yearãs biggest decliners, many of which are from the boating sector. The reported losses are deeper than I can grasp while writing this: Boating Life (-65.8 percent), Power & Motoryacht (-53.2), Boating (-53.1) and Architectural Digest (-49.8). A TON of titles followed closely, losing well more than 40 percent of their ad pages last year compared to 2008.
But according to Magazine Publishers of Americaãs Ellen Oppenheim, magazine spending showed improvement during the fourth quarter compared to the same period in 2008. Ad pages during the period slipped 21.6 percent compared to the prior year fourth quarter while revenues dropped only 12.4 percent. ãMagazines experienced an uptick in food spending and relative improvement in other areas, especially in automotive.ã
Hopefully this means the market has bottomed. Hopefully, this means that weãll begin to see gains (or gradually less severe losses) in the quarters to come.
But letãs keep a perspective. The advertising pullback of 2009 was so severe that many of the surviving publishers have migrated away (in varying degrees) from dependence on advertising revenues. Theyãre charging more for content in print and online. Theyãre diversifying their product portfolio so much that print is arguably a second-tier player in the overall mix. Some are dropping print and/or print advertising altogether.
Moving forward, I wonder how accurate a barometer PIBãs quarterly reports will be about the health of the consumer magazine publishing business.
In the meantime, hereãs a look at how a number of categories performed in terms of ad pages, title-by-title.
|Car and Driver
|Hot Rod
|Motor Trend
|Road & Track
|Fast Company
|Harvard Business Review
|The Week
|Entertainment Weekly
|In Touch Weekly
|Life & Style
|Us Weekly
Multichannel-Bent Publishers Give Longtime Print Staffers the Cold ShoulderJason Fell
The irony here is thick.
F+W Media recently let go Emily Gordon as editor-in-chief of Print magazine. Now, the publisher is looking for a content director to replace herãsomeone it says will head content development strategy across media platforms, including digital, social media, e-commerce, books, events as well as the print magazine.
When I spoke with F+W president David Blansfield about the change, he declined to speak directly about Gordonãs departure but did have this to say: ãA lot of publishers are facing the challenge of how to inspire legacy editors to think and act on building value across platforms beyond only print.ã
So, was the editor of a magazine called Print ousted for being too print-focused? Gordonãwho founded New Yorker fan/media/culture blog Emdashes.comãdoesnãt seem to think so.
"Earlier this year, I got a raise and a bonus for my overall performance and positive attitude, and for keeping the magazine running with a scant five staffers," she told me. "We relaunched the Web site and launched full sail into social networking, extremely thrifty video production and viral marketing, which became some of the most enjoyable and rewarding new projects I've embarked on in a long time."
Pointed fingers aside, I donãt think anyone needs to explain F+Wãs logic in wanting a content director (be it Gordon or someone else) to manage the brand across multiple channels. Print magazines no longer are the center of a publishing companyãs universe, as F+Wãs CEO recently reiterated during the 2009 FOLIO: Show. Itãs one piece of the overall content distribution pie. In fact, one could argue that itãs a secondary piece to online, social media, etc.
Weãre seeing lot of ãlegacyã magazine staffers being shown the door now. In this market, publishers are turning their backs on people who are unwilling or considered unable to adapt to selling/producing a brand beyond the printed page. Itãs a cold fact.
Forecast: 2010Jason Fell
FOLIOmag.com recently posted its annual round up of magazine and media predictions for the coming year, collected from a wide cross section of industry professionals. All in all, we came up with roughly 115 predictions from more than 20 people.
Until we posted it, that is.
Since Thursday morning, Iãve received e-mails and phone calls from another small army of wanna-be fortune tellersãall wanting to add their illuminations about 2010. And, of course, I couldnãt resist. Below are the additional predictions Iãve collected so far.
Do you have a prediction(s) about whatãs in store for 2010? Will print advertising evaporate completely? Will mobile applications take over? Will Jan Wenner ever tend bar at his Rolling Stone-themed restaurant?
Let me know. Send your predictions to jfell(at)red7media(dot)com, or leave them in the comments section below.
NAME: Kirk Cheyfitz
TITLE: CEO, Story Worldwide
PREDICTION(S): Late in the year, one major magazineãprobably one of Meredithãs, since Meredith actually owns a digital marketing agencyãwill wake from the publishing industryãs self-induced coma and re-invent itself as a content marketing agency specializing in reaching the niche audience that reads the magazine. From then on, that lone magazine will make tons of money creating content for brand marketersãthe kind of valuable entertaining, informative content that is taking the place of advertising.
NAME: Rob Haggart
TITLE: photo editor, formerly of Men's Journal, Outside
PREDICTION(S): We will see fire sale buyouts (û la BusinessWeek) of a few big titles rather than shuttering (û la Gourmet).
More photographers will get into the workshop, book writing and teaching side of the photography business. This is proving by all appearances to be super lucrative, but will get very crowded and competitive as people with an impressive oeuvre enter the market.
Photographers who market with ideas and innovation will be snapped up by marketers who need fresh ideas and innovation.
Product photography will heat up as companies realize products online need great photography to convert online shoppers into buyers.
Local markets will go red hot as local online markets get competitive and companies that normally needed no photos for a yellowpage ad now need lots of photography for a nice looking Web site.
Video goes nuclear, because nothing is commissioned anymore without video and hey, ãdoesnãt that camera shoot video too.ã
NAME: Gordon T. Hughes
TITLE: president and CEO, American Business Media
PREDICTION(S): Weãre calling print flat to down 3 percent in 2010 after a year (2009) that it was down 30 percent.
Digital, which was down probably 3 percent in 2009, weãre calling up between 3 and 6 percent next year.
Custom, which was up probably in the 6 percent range, weãre saying will be about the same, up another 3 to 6 percent off of that in 2010.
We believe that rich data has excellent potent for member to take their intellectual properties, their content and be able to monetize it without talking about ad revenues. We see that as a continuing growing sector for our members.
Finally, one area we believe will be disappointing will be face-to-face. 2010 will probably worse than 2009, so weãre saying itãll be down about 20 percent.
NAME: Paul Conley
TITLE: owner, Paul Conley Consulting
PREDICTION(S): This will be the year of the tierãin which poor rates for online advertising will split the b-to-b publishing game into three distinct levels. (And since thereãs very, very little room for ad-supported, mid to high quality models in this three-tier system, I expect more bankruptcies and closures in 2010.)
1. Content mills like Associated Content and Demand Media already dominate the lower tier in b-to-cãdumbing down the market and pushing costs so low that professional writers are fleeing and professional publishers are abandoning ãevergreenã stories, how-to articles and similar search-driven, long-tail tactics.
In b-to-b, watch for a rise in such crappy-but-cheap competitors (an e-mail newsletter company approached me a few weeks ago looking for help finding b-to-b journalists who would write for $15 per 600-word story!)
2. The middle tier will be most notable for its absence of middle men! No aspect of publishing is better positioned for growth in 2010 than content marketingãas marketers continue to learn they can get better results if they produce their own content.
In b-to-b, look for content marketing to produce extraordinary levels of sophistication and quality (like IBMãs avian flu site or Boeing and GMãs early forays in this space a few years ago.) Watch also for a shift in staffing as the best journalists find they can make more money (and face fewer ethical pressures from unscrupulous bosses) by moving into content marketing.
3. The top tier, as always, will be reserved for high-end, paid-subscription products. And, as always, the top tier will be dominated by data, pricing, trading and credit products in b-to-b.
But in 2010, increasingly desperate publishers will talk loudly and often about forcing users to pay for additional forms of online content. Delusions will grow commonplace, as companies insist that the poor quality stuff theyãve always given away is actually high quality material that can now be sold.
NAME: Gordon Plutsky
TITLE: director of marketing, King Fish Media
PREDICTION(S): Here are four.
1. More and more pure play online companies will discover multi-channel media and marketing paired with content drives customer engagement. Look for more online retailers to create ãmagalogsã pairing content and offers in an appealing environment using both print and digital formats.
2. Broadcasters (network and cable) will create more integrated online custom and advertising programs for the so called ãsecond screen.ã According to Reuters, Nielsenãs research shows that ã57 percent of TV viewers in the U.S. who have Internet access use both mediums at the same time at least once a month. That translates to more than 128 million U.S. consumers.ã
This opens the door to endless ties in for deeper content, social media connections and games/contests to extend a marketing campaign.
3. Consumers will slowly begin to accept that they will have to pay for some premium content online. The decline of print advertising means that online content can no longer be subsidized. It will only be successful with unique, relevant content such as hyper local news or brands such as the New York Times or Variety. Garden variety news and opinion found in places such as Newsweek and BusinessWeek stand little chance of collecting a fee for content because there are so many other sources for that information.
4. Twitter is already leveling off as many people quit or abandon it after a short time. I see that trend continuing, though the idea if micro blogging is here to stay. Itãs too effective a communications tools not to have a purpose. It makes more sense integrated into something else rather than a standalone since it is still a mystery how Twitter will make a profit. The whole ãsocial mediaã frenzy will slow down considerably as it becomes just another marketing tactic and media channel for marketers. The cottage industry of social media experts, consultants and dedicated agencies will wane. Itãs like when ãeã was finally dropped from e-commerce and it just became another commerce channel.ô We can now drop the ãSocialã and recognize itãs just another media channel.
NAME: Colin Crawford
TITLE: founder and CEO, Media7
PREDICTION(S): In 2010, successful publishers will:
Adapt to the world of "mobility"ãthe consumption and creation of content on smart mobile devices - smartphones, smartbooks, smartpads and smart e-readers.
Focus on the user experience each medium offersãonline is not a print replica and mobile is not an online replica.
Show users that their brand delivers real value across mediaãthey will appreciate mobile has the potential to reset the brand/audience relationship that has been put under pressure by the internet.
Develop a series of revenue streams rather than just expecting the CPM advertising model to work in the digital world.
Engage audiencesãas defensible competitive barrier to entryãnurturing and developing audiences will be key to success.
Think of themselves as database/ data services and integrated marketing solutions companies and not just content creation companies.
Link together their three critical databasesãcontent, audience and marketers.
NAME: Bob Sacks
TITLE: president/publisher, Precision Media Group
2009 PREDICTION(S): 2010 is the year of the great publishing realignment where our industry retrenches, rebuilds and looks forward to a bright and prosperous future.
2010 is the year that our senior management intellectually turns the corner and follows the money instead of waiting for its errant return.
This is the year that some print magazines realize that they can make plenty of money being just what they areãfocused, idea driven, information cult clubs. ô
This is also the year that some other print magazines realize that they canãt/donãt/wonãt deliver the focused information narrow enough to pay for the product and move onwards.
2010 is the year that flat economics seems pretty damn good. This will be the year when the surviving franchises reach out past the traditional and seek the screenagers at their home base.
From a historical perspective, next year will be noted as the launching date of magazines designed for the new substrates, which translates into anything that connects to the Web. We will realize that size doesnãt matter, while performance and functionality does.
And finally, this is the year that Samir Husni calls BoSacks to say that he finally understands that publishing is not confined to just paper and that electronic communication is not such a bad thing. He does this from his Blackberry.
Twitterversy Over Publishers Weekly ãAfro Picksã CoverJason Fell
If attention is what it wanted, Publishers Weekly succeeded.
For its December 14 issue cover, the Reed Business Information title used a photo entitled ãPickinã,ã shot by photographer Lauren Kelly for a new book by Deborah Willis called, "Posing Beauty: African American Images from the 1890s to the Present." Willis, an African-American, is the head of New York Universityãs photography and imaging department.
The cover [pictured] caused a firestorm on Twitter. Publishers Weekly senior editor Calvin Reid, who is African-American, chimed in over the magazineãs feed, claiming he and the magazineãs creative director chose the cover photo and wrote the cover line. Here are some of Reidãs tweets:
@PublishersWkly: I admit that I love afro picks! In the 1970s I had many just like them also stuck in my massive afro. . .
@PublishersWkly: . . and itãs a story about ãpickingã books. I love dumb jokes.
@PublishersWkly: While I respect everyone who may be offended, I think the photo is a delightful and wry expression of historical Afro Americana.
Even Felicia Pride, the cover storyãs author, admitted via Twitter that the cover was, well, a bit shocking:
@feliciapride: I too saw PW cover yesterday. Mouth dropped. Still, I hope you can read my article
What do you think? Is the cover offensive? Funny? Outdated? Ignorant? Poorly executed?
Hereãs a select sampling of the comments that have flooded Twitter. Feel free to leave your comment directly to this post.
@yasminhamidi: Ya, I'm not feelin this Publishers Weekly 'Afro Picks' cover. Agree that it's 'artful but out of context'
@Gripemaster: Why are we suprised? This is the same mag and editors who couldn't find 1 good novel from a female writer for Top 10 of 2009.
@ChristineTB: Calvin - I owned "Afro Picks" too. But your photo selection, given the current climate which marginalizes AA writers, was poor.
@ActsofFaithblog: Hipster Racism FTW @PublishersWkly #afropw --And when you go under like so many other publications you'll know why. Cheap shots = FAIL!!
@charabbott: Beyond PW's cover (which I found fresh & funny), what's disturbing is the ARTICLE: e.g. less serious black fiction is being pubbed.
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Reminder: Magazines Just One Element of the Overall BrandJason Fell
Crain Communications on Thursday announced that Jonah Bloom, longtime editor of trade publication Advertising Age, was leaving the company to serve as CEO and editor-in-chief of budding blogging network Breaking Mediaãhome to Above the Law and Dealbreaker. Following Bloom is Ad Age senior editor Matt Creamer, who will take the executive editor post at Breaking Media.
When I heard the news, I shot Bloom an e-mail to get his take on his departureãwhat about the opportunity at Breaking Media lured him away from Ad Age. Another question I asked was: Looking back at your time at Ad Age, what are your thoughts about the magazine? The industry?
The first part of Bloomãs response was, well, somewhat snippy: Without meaning to sound defensive, Ad Age isn't a magazine. Sure, that's one way in which it delivers weekly analysisãa way that's still valued by many senior executivesãbut a huge proportion of what it does today it does digitally.
And of course, heãs right. Magazines and newspapers, once the center of our publishing universe, now are only one part of the bigger branded experience. This isnãt a new concept but it becomes a more solid reality every day.
Coming from an online editor, perhaps I should have rephrased the question, especially when asking the former top editor of a magazine for marketers. Duh, Jason.
Anyway, for those of you who actually were wondering what Bloomãs thoughts are on his Ad Age experience and on the industry, hereãs what he wrote:
I feel proud to have been part of the team that took it from being a newspaper to a genuinely multi-faceted publication. As to the marketing and media business, there's almost too much to say to sum up my thoughts in a sentence or two, but we all know it's going through a massive transition. Marketers are going to keep shifting to more direct, engaging and measurable ways of conversing with their audience and they're going to need to deliver things audiences really want or even needãas I've said before the marketing is going to become a service, and in some ways even a product. The media owners and agencies who are going to succeed will be the ones that help them figure out how best to do thatãand how to charge for all their work on that challenge.


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ATLANTA -- Former Atlanta Braves star Chipper Jones committed an error in retirement, starting a fire when he dumped some ashes in the woods near his suburban home after cleaning out his fireplace.
Jones tweeted about the fire, which broke out Wednesday evening. It was quickly extinguished by the Roswell fire department and caused no serious damage.
Said Jones, "Tried to do my daily chores and cleaned out the fireplace. Went and dumped the ashes. All's good right? Nope. Set the woods on fire! Ugh." He thanked firefighters for responding quickly to put out the blaze.
Jones played with the Braves for 19 seasons, hitting 468 homers and winning the MVP award in 1999. He retired in 2012.
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ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. – May 7 – The Erie Community College lacrosse team placed three individuals on the All-Region III team, announced today. ECC finished the season 7-6 and was ranked 10th in the NJCAA.
Sophomore attack Melanie Sterlace (West Seneca, N.Y./West Seneca East) and freshman midfielder Destiny Sampson (Irving, N.Y./Gowanda) were named to the first team while sophomore midfielder Miranda Schultz (Angola, N.Y./Lake Shore) was a second-team selection. Schultz was also a second-team selection in 2011.
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Get into the spotlight of being the freshest looking dude in your crew. The Shadow Boardshort by Analog has an engineered retro blocked sublimation print with a contrast waistband. It also features a signature selvedge denim loop and patch detail. Zip fly with a cotton drawcord. Anti rash lycra at the front, fly, and rise. 21" outseam. 100% polyester (peached microfiber). Imported.
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