IHT: In Japan, cellphones have become a tool for writing and reading e-mail messages. Now, publishers in Japan want mobile subscribers to read more than simple text messages. Publishers like Shinchosha and Kodansha and their distribution partner have been bolstering readership for novels and comics on cellphones. According to Shinchosha, cellphone users are gravitating to authors like Mika Naito, who […]

Iconoculture: Step into liquid. Imbibe magazine covers everything from cocktails to wine to beer to juice to coffee to tea. The motto: All that’s fit to drink. The premiere issue of the bimonthly publication features hot chocolate and mezcal in Oaxaca, great hotel bars around the country, Trappist ales and organic wines. A handy guide to every imbibing opportunity will […]

DailyCandy: Q. What do the following lyrics have in common? a) I would walk 500 miles. b) Who let the dogs out? c) You oughtta know. A. There’s a really good chance they are now going to be stuck in your head all day. (Sorry.) But you can use Earworms to get them out — and learn quelque chose while […]

BizReport.com: The news menu was stuffed with the dreadful and appalling yesterday. A massive hurricane bearing down on Texas. A bus fire killing 24 elderly people near Dallas. Floods ravaging New Orleans — again. And that was before you even considered what’s happening to the economy, or in Iraq or Afghanistan, or anywhere else in this sad, wicked world. You […]

SignOnSanDiego.com: Have a great photograph of yourself you’d like the world to see? Maybe a picture that proves you really did reach the top of Mount Whitney, or catch a 50-pound King salmon in Alaska, or hang glide over a beach in Rio. Wouldn’t that photo make a perfect postage stamp? Make it happen. Now anyone can join the ranks […]

USATODAY.com: After getting a taste of the radio business in college, software designer Craig Patchett never lost his interest in broadcasting. But without a job in radio, it seemed likely to remain one of those unfulfilled passions — until something called “podcasting” came along. Now, Patchett’s creating shows and sending them out to the masses every day — not over […]

Small Business Trends: Here’s an excellent resource for small business owners and entrepreneurs: BusinessTVchannel.com. BusinessTVchannel.com is an Internet site where you can go to watch and listen to video on business topics of interest to small business owners. It’s like a cross between broadcast TV and the Internet. They offer a morning newscast. They also offer shows on topics such […]

Anyone who sells for living can read true, often tragic, often side-splitting tales of sales-pitches-gone-bad in a new comic book that shows anyone who sells for a living what behaviors to adopt and what to avoid – in order to further their success in selling. Published by Sales Autopsy Press, this colorful 24-page volume, The Sales Comic Book, contains the […]

Red Herring Blog: The media is self-organizing. Not the old fogies, such as daily newspapers, magazines, and television networks, but the legions of self-publishers and producers on the web. In recent months, the rise of podcasting has sent a flare up over the trenches of old media, key figures have abandoned their posts in old media to set out into […]

Adrants: Acknowledging the decline of people’s intelligence by saying, “People don’t read anymore, and kids in particular don’t read. This gives them content in a 5- to 7-minute package that matches their attention span,” NEWgame Communications CEO Kathleen Hessert describes her company’s online video magazine creation product, Vmag. That said, NEWgame is heading in the right direction as online video […]