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The Inside Story of PC Magazine, PC World, and Macworld's Origins, as Told by David Bunnell
In the early 1990s, David wrote a proposal for a book about his life and adventures in publishing, covering the founding of PC Magazine, PC World, Macworld, and more. The book didn't happen, but the proposal is good reading in itself.
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The Ambitious Plan to Open Up a Treasure Trove of Black History
The Johnson Publishing Company produced iconic magazines including Ebony and Jet and its archive is regarded as one of the most significant collections of 20th century Black American culture. The archive contains around 5,000 magazines, 200 boxes of business records, 10,000 audio and visual recordings, and 4.5 million prints and negatives that chronicle Black life from the 1940s until the present day.
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Rolling Stone puts Boston bombing suspect on cover
Rolling Stone magazine's decision to put Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the accused Boston Marathon bomber, on the cover of its latest issue has ignited a firestorm of outrage online.
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70 Million People Used This Startup's Software Last Month, But You've Never Heard Of It
Unless you're plugged into the Danish startup scene, you've probably never heard of Issuu. What is weird about that: 70 million people used Issuu's software last month. Issuu is a YouTube-for-Magazines.
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Playboy: Still Sexist After All These Years
When describing their just-released 60th anniversary issue, editors at Playboy talk about celebrating “60 years of beautiful women, discerning taste, sexual emancipation, groundbreaking fiction, and world-changing journalism.” To that end, they put supermodel Kate Moss on the cover and dressed her up in traditional playmate garb: bunny ears, cottontail, and the French cuffs of a cater-waiter. Inside, she’s on all fours.
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Models Are So Thin Magazines Have To Photoshop Them Fatter
A former editor at Cosmopolitan, Leah Hardy, recently wrote an exposé about the practice of photoshopping models to hide the health and aesthetic costs of extreme thinness.
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The Anatomy of a Magazine Cover
The best design podcast around—and one of the best podcasts, period—is Roman Mars’ 99% Invisible. On it he covers design questions large and small, from his fascination with rebar to the history of slot machines to the great Los Angeles Red Car conspiracy. Here at The Eye, we cross-post his new episodes and host excerpts from the 99% Invisible blog, which offers complementary visuals for each episode.
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Playboy Must Pay $6 Million to Fired Executive in Largest Federal Whistleblower Verdict Ever
Company still faces punitive damages in ruling that also found age discrimination and “malice, fraud or oppression” Playboy Enterprises must pay $6 million to a former accounting executive who was wrongfully terminated, a federal jury in California decided Wednesday, and may have to pay more when punitive damages are decided later this week.
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This 1981 Computer Magazine Cover Explains Why We're So Bad at Tech Predictions
Thirty-three years later, artist Robert Tinney's concept smartwatch is worth at least a thousand words
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Why Every Member of Congress Gets a Monthly Porn Delivery
Congressional offices have a porn problem, but it's not exactly what you think. Since 1983, Larry Flynt has sent the monthly magazine he founded, Hustler, to each and every member of Congress. The dirty mag comes in a plain manila envelope, fairly undetectable to the poor intern or staffer tasked with opening the mail. And every month, there it is: Hustler, featuring dozens of naked or scantly dressed women, vulgar comics, and articles, some satirical, on politics, society, and sex.
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22 Incredible Images Show What the Future Looked Like 100 Years Ago
These amazing, almost 100-year old covers of the weekly French magazine Le Petite Journal are from the online collection of the french National Library. They show what were the most exciting innovations of the 1920s, and how people in Europe imagined the future of technology and science.
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How America’s Oldest Magazines Are Modernizing (And Monetizing) Their Archives
Iconic magazines have different strategies for surfacing their pasts.
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The Economist 2015 Cover is Filled With Cryptic Symbols and Dire Predictions
The magazine The Economist published an issue named “The World in 2015″. On the cover are odd images : A mushroom cloud, the Federal Reserve in a game called “Panic” and much more.
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ButtHurt Magazine - Issue 03
A fun series of videos I am putting on youTube. Covers stories of politically correct people who are devastated by the smallest of micro-aggressions.
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NSFW Juxtapoz Magazine - Classic Heavy Metal Magazine Covers
The American version of Heavy Metal Magazine began in 1977 as a magazine for adult comics, a blend of dark fantasy, science fiction and erotica. Initi...
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Why you should (almost) never believe health advice in women's magazines
The advice in their pages is too often insane, aimed at fearmongering, and totally science-free.
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10 vintage computer reviews from the dawn of technology
Before the slick Apple ads, we had these vintage ads, as seen in Byte Magazine between 1975 and 1986.
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1950s fashion from the cover of Life Magazine, 1914
In 1914, nudity was easy to imagine, but not gentlemen in public without hats... By Cory Doctorow.
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Will Dana, Rolling Stone’s Managing Editor, to Depart
The departure comes after the magazine retracted an article about a supposed rape at the University of Virginia.
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The Internet Memes the Hell Out of TIME Magazine’s Virtual Reality Cover
Oh, man. Aw, man. Let's be real: even though TIME magazine is a highly esteemed publication for which we have nothing but the upmost, their August 17th issue–which features Oculus Rift creator Palmer Luckey hovering off of the ground, barefoot, with his contraption on his face–has got to be one of the most ridiculous looking covers the magazine, or any magazine, has ever produced.
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