Archive for December 21st, 2007:
Blog Indiana 2008
I just stumbled upon a campaign at The Point from a group of Hoosiers that want to start an Indiana blogging conference. I think it’s a great idea, and I’m sure there are enough Hoosier bloggers in the state that would attend if one were to happen. They just need to get the word out, so I thought I’d do my part and throw another link out there to their website.
Free Business Magazines
Similar to newspapers, magazines don’t really make their profit from subscription sales. They live or die on their advertising revenue, and to fluff those numbers and increase members of certain key demographics, they often give out free subscriptions to people who work in businesses that their advertisers are trying to reach. For about a decade now, I’ve been receiving dozens of free magazine subscriptions from websites such as Mercury Magazines or Free Biz Mags.
Some of these free magazines are trade publications that would only be of interest to webmasters or IT professionals, but they also offer me a surprising assortment of consumer magazines. Over the years I’ve received free subscriptions to magazines such as Wired, Boating, Maxim, FHM, Stuff, Car & Driver, Horses Illustrated, US News & World Report, and many more. While I hate to endorse reading magazines offline and killing more trees, sometimes it’s just nice to have a physical magazine that you can stuff in your bag and pull out whenever you have a free minute or need to kill some time. They make good bathroom reading as well, and, more importantly, they’re free. I have a hard time saying no to anything that’s free.
