News from the Magosphere 19th April ’10

As mentioned elsewhere, things have been quiet here due to unforeseen volcanic inconvenience, and entirely foreseen wedding exuberance. I’m now in Dublin, waiting, waiting for the air to clear. Meantime, some catch up.

New York magazine’s Approval Matrix becomes TV show
More signs that visual media are getting desperate for ideas. Next up: Time Out Theater Listings: The Movie!, and a Radiohead album based on Loot

ProPublica/NYT magazine investigations tie-in wins another award
Not ‘The Future Of Journalism’, but one of them

Jeremy’s guest-posting at It’s Nice That
He’s going to share five magazines that “push the boundaries of what a magazine can be”. Place your bets, ladies and gentlemen

A peek inside the new Businessweek
If nothing else, Bloomberg knows how to build up expectations

World’s biggest-circulation magazine gets Latino spinoff
Unless you count Watchtower, that is

Technology as introduced by PopSci magazine
Love that first-ever colour facsimile cover – today it’d probably be done by Esquire

The Lady puts Tracy Emin on the cover
One of those stories I had to check the date of first, to make sure it wasn’t April 1st

BBC looking for magazine partner
Partnerships to help bring more balance to the industry

Yahoo! produces style guide
Containing, one assumes, more online savvy than the AP guide

NYT’s Sunday magazine from 1910
Every week, another century-old story. Lovely contextualization from the archives

I rather like this cover
It’s not new, but it certainly grabs you. I just found it on the ever-superlative Nas Capas

HyPad links

The Six iPad Principles of Mag+
Still lauded as the best interface so far

A mag app roundup
This week’s hits and misses from Exact Editions