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Author: Abe Sleestak

 

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Recent Domain Registrations

Domains Registered September 12, 2022 Some recent domain name registrations. Alternative top-level domains are increasingly in-use, and are becoming more widely recognized and valued by consumers and businesses alike. For instance, the .MEDIA domain was created to represent advertising, marketing, public relations, ...
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Magazine Discount Center acquired

Magazine Discount Center Acquired By Synapse Group

When browsing through my LinkedIn contacts, I recently noticed that several who had previously worked for Magazine Discount Center now had Synapse Group, Inc. listed as their employer as of late 2016. Knowing the industry, I read this as a likely sign of ...
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Time Breastfeeding Cover Image - by Martin Schoeller

Time Features Mother Breastfeeding Cover

In May, Time magazine featured an eye-opening photo of a mother breastfeeding her child, with very clear mouth-to-breast exposure. The cover is reported to be controversial -- and it is. Our society continues to associate any nudity with sex, and also tends ...
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President Obama Gay Newsweek Cover

Obama As The First Gay President Newsweek Cover

I neglected to comment earlier this year on the Newsweek magazine cover featuring President Obama with a rainbow-colored halo along with the headline "The First Gay President". The cover and the headline were, of course, engineered to be highly provocative, because Obama ...
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Muslim Rage Newsweek Magazine Cover

Newsweek Shutting Down Print Operations

After 80 years on the newsstands, the venerable Newsweek is discontinuing its print version and making the shift to online-only in 2013. The final print edition will hit the stands on December 31, 2012. First published in February 1933, Newsweek has been ...
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Antique Steam Printing Press

Fewer Print Magazines Launched in 2012 Compared with 2011

BtoBonline.com reports that fewer new print magazines were started up this year compared to last. (227 versus 239) Whether good or bad, this is a trend that is very likely to continue. Even magazines which ought to be successful if managed properly ...
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NSS Magazine

NSS Magazine Captures the Fashion and Style of Naples

NSS Magazine (formerly known as Naplestreetstyle.com) is more than a fashion blog.  It's a website with a mission to reinvent the popular conception of Naples.  Since the early 20th century, the Italian city has been widely perceived as a crime-ridden haven of ...
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Tom Cruise

Vanity Fair & Scientology Brouhaha Over Tom Cruise Girlfriend Auditions

Vanity Fair has reported on how the Church of Scientology had apparently conducted auditions to find a girlfriend for their poster-boy member, Tom Cruise. Scientologists and Cruise's legal representatives have now vehemently denied the claims, calling them "tired old lies" and "hogwash" ...
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Time Warner and Newsscorp

Time Warner & News Corp. Looking to Gain Digital Marketshare

Time Warner, News Corp and other major magazine publishers are looking for ways to evolve from print publishing products to digital. Will they be successful in making the transition? ...
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TME Magazine Charge

What the &$!#* is TME Magazine?

So it was December 24, and I was doing my usual last minute Christmas shopping.  You know, where you've given up on actually buying people a gift that's thoughtful and meaningful, and all you care about at this point is making sure ...
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