DISQUS

Sam Nam · 1 year ago

Wow, this really demonstrates the amazing ability of a blog to convey information quickly and effortlesly.

I wonder if there would be a profitable business model in aggregating the articles from all the publications out there and making a searchable database. Like a subscription fee based service?

Andrew Meyer · 1 year ago

Yeah I wonder if magazines fall out of copyright like books do. You know how Google is trying to scan all books that have fallen out of copyright.

Sam Nam · 1 year ago

really? I didn't know that. I do know that google is taking over the world! LOL

jason · 1 year ago

Great post!

I have been wondering all my life when we will actually start to see the inevitable death of print magazines. So far, it seems like there's more and more of them each day though!

I like Sam's idea of a possible database of all such print articles in one place. Internet Archive are you listening?

All responsible magazine's existing at this point SHOULD be archiving all of their back content and making it available on the web. Unfortunately a lot of them are not.

prkswllflwr · 1 year ago

Newspapers are even worse. Daily! Ha! I worked for a huge paper for a couple of months before I felt utterly worthless. At least it's used in animal shelters to soak up urine in cages, right?

Andrew Meyer · 1 year ago

Internet archives would be awesome, especially for magazines like National Geographic.

Dara, haha yeah lets not even get started with newspapers.