A perhaps unlikely pick for the annual Person of the Year by Time magazine, but Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg created a social network so large that if it was a country, it would be the world’s third largest. And he’s only 26.
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Time for a paywall?
The Time it is a’changing, with stories now cut short online, telling readers to either check out the print edition or the paid edition on their iPads. Is this a paywall without a door?
Internet hijackers: stealing content and avoiding blame
Why did Time.com and Politico, two well respected news sites, completely violate copyright and publish the infamous Rolling Stone McChrystal profile on their sites?
It’s not that Newsweek is bad — it’s that TIME is better
Ailing newsweekly Newsweek’s biggest problem is that it’s coming second in a two-horse-race with TIME magazine, says Dan McGinn. Both rags would actually be better off with more competitors.
Video of the Day: A talk with the editor of Time
An interesting interview by Katie Couric with Nancy Gibbs, the executive editor of Time magazine. Nancy talks her top cover stories, the benefits of online vs. print and the future of journalism.
What your taste in magazines says about you
Jezebel shamelessly (yet hilariously and accurately) stereotypes various magazines’ readerships. Vogue? “People who use the names of seasons as verbs”. Time? “People waiting to get a colonoscopy”.
Ben Bernanke: Time‘s Person of the Year 2009
Time magazine has named US Federal Reserve chief Ben Bernanke as its Person of the Year for 2009, lauding him as “the most powerful nerd on the planet”. Well, at least it wasn’t bloody Twitter.
Time‘s 2009 Person of the Year: the nominees
Time has revealed the 2009 nominees for its coveted title of Person of the Year. This year’s list ranged from the obvious — Obama, Bernanke — to some more left-field suggestions like the Somali Pirates and Iran Protesters.
The 2000s: Worst. Decade. Ever.
TIME’s latest cover story has slightly controversially labeled the Noughties “The Decade From Hell”, with 9/11 at one end, and financial disaster at the other. A look back at a decade of depression, disasters, despots and doom.
Rival publishers unite to create iTunes for magazines — but who’s buying?
Magazine publishers Hearst, Time Inc and Conde Nast are joining forces to create an “iTunes for magazines” — a online storefront for digital versions of their titles and articles. But they can’t sell a product that’s already free… are those paywalls we can see looming on the horizon?
What will it take to get people paying for online news?
There’s movement at the station: Rupe is dumping Google, Journalism Online has 1200 publishers on-board, and Time is creating an iTunes for magazine articles. What’s next on the path to making paywalls prosperous?
Time‘s nerdy new tech site
Time has taken a gamble by entering the already bloated market of tech sites with its new venture Techland. Can it really bring anything new to the web? It sure is purty.
Will Twitter be Time‘s Person of the Year?
Twitter is emerging as the hot favourite amongst pundits as the hot favourite to be named Time magazine’s 2009 Person of the Year. We can just see the world’s social media experts wetting themselves already.
50 years of TIME in Australia (and a few less-important islands, too)
TIME magazine is celebrating 50 years of publication in Australia (well, the “South Pacific”, but it pretty much ignores everyone else), including a tribute to its pick of most influential Aussies of the last five decades: Robert Menzies, Germaine Greer, Victor Chang, Eddie Mabo, and Tim Flannery.
TIME.com Diggs up traffic
The popularity of TIME articles on social bookmarking site Digg has seen the traffic to the magazine’s website balloon by 41% over the last year. Maybe link aggregation isn’t killing traditional news organisations after all?
Turning TIME magazine into TIME.com
A fascinating interview with Josh Tyrangiel, Managing Editor of TIME.com, who explains why some of the print magazine’s best content just doesn’t work online, and how their online journalists and editors tighten and rewrite articles in a way that does fit the medium.
TIME practises what it preaches with frugal photography
Photographer Robert Lam was excited when a stock photo he snapped made the cover of TIME magazine, until he found out the going rate for the mag’s cover shot is usually in the thousands of dollars — and he got $30. The cover story in question? “The New Frugality”.
This will hurt your brain: time is slowing down, apparently
A decade ago, measurements of the light from distant exploding stars showed the universe to be expanding at an accelerating rate.
Physicists gave it the name “dark energy”. But a new theory suggests we’ve been fooled … because time itself is slowing down.
TIME’s top 25 blogs for 2009: the good, the bad, the inexplicable
TIME magazine has once again ranked named their most and least favourite blogs for the year. We take a look at who made the cut.
The art of reel time
WH Chong stops the clock to explore how films — from State of Play to Samson & Delilah — convey time.
Death of the newsweekly?
Why is it that Time and Newsweek are faltering, while a notionally similar weekly news digest — The Economist — is thriving?
The 10 most absurd Time covers
From Satanism to Pokemon, Reason gathers 10 of the most “horrifying, silly, irresponsible, or downright ridiculous’ Time magazine covers of the last 40 years.
Time Inc publishing arm edges closer to midnight
The overall result from the huge Time Warner media conglomerate overshadowed the wrecking ball looming over Time’s publishing business.
Why Time and Newsweek will never be The Economist
“We’re going to turn things around by being like The Economist” may be the most overused magazine cliché, but trying to emulate the mag is a fool’s errand. Vanity Fair explain why.
