Comments on: Slow-Moving Magazines No Match for Fast-Moving Blogs

By: Online vs. onpaper: 1 - 0 - blogprinting 0.1 « Design for joy

Online vs. onpaper: 1 - 0 - blogprinting 0.1 « Design for joy — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 09:59:20 +0000

[...] Today, Michael Surtee’s Linkdrop of oktober 17th, 2008, inspired me (again). His link to Slow-Moving Magazines No Match for Fast-Moving Blogs ignited something I have been thinking about occasionally. Albeit when blogsurfing, or when in [...]

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Online: douze points « Tink*abell — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 05:31:51 +0000

[...] Okay, so my online vs. onpaper post, sparked initially by this post, is way too long and desparately needs editing. Who knows if I’ll get round to that? [...]

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By: First thoughts « Plenty of hard Dealings

First thoughts « Plenty of hard Dealings — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 13:18:11 +0000

[...] I’ve been thinking about the viability of periodicals, specifically magazines. Inspired partly by this post, but it’s something I’ve been thinking about since even before starting my research [...]

By: DesignNotes by Michael Surtees » Blog Archive » Link Drop for the Week Ending in Friday the 17th (October 2008)

Fri, 17 Oct 2008 11:25:53 +0000

[...] Slow-Moving Magazines No Match for Fast-Moving Blogs PSFK wrote “The argument against the magazine industry’s sustainability generally goes like this: People now want their information on-demand, in short quantities, and from hundreds rather than dozens of sources. But one very important factor contributing to the industry’s demise is not often recognized. Magazines – lumbering machines that move at a snails pace – are just not equipped to remain relevant in a world that moves at lightning pace.” [...]

By: Lisa

Lisa — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 03:35:36 +0000

I think this is an interesting perspective, however not one I completely agree with.
Magazines shouldn’t be trying to compete with blogs – they play different roles in peoples lives i.e. blogs don’t work when you want ‘me’ time (which is growing in scarcity, therefore increasingly important). Nor do they have the portability that the printed page has i.e. at the beach.
Likewise magazines in their current form shouldn’t be competing with the same stories as blogs, but investigating the reason why Top Shop’s delays occurred, the reaction and so on.
So while I agree that magazines replicating content on blogs is a slippery slope I do believe that there is a role that they can play in a complementary sense, rather than being competitive. competitive sense.