“The details are not the details. They make the design.”
—Charles Eames
Monthly Archives: December 2006
No Interest Magazines
I think that general-interest magazines may well be fated to fade away. General-interest anything is probably cursed. For the truth is that interest never was as general editors and publishers thought it was, back in the mass-media age. Old media just assumed we were interested in what they told us to be interested in. But we weren’t. We’re proving that with every new choice the internet enables.
Yet special-interest magazines — community magazines, to put it another way — have a brighter prospect — if they understand how to enable that community.
Here is something I am playing with – a search of specific websites in Taiwan. For some reason it has a hard time with phpBB installations. Give it a try.
Searching Taiwan