Hunter S. Thompson Applies for a Job

As far as I'm concerned, it's a damned shame that a field as potentially dynamic and vital as journalism should be overrun with dullards, bums, and hacks, hag-ridden with myopia, apathy, and complacence, and generally stuck in a bog of stagnant mediocrity.

– From a letter of application submitted by Hunter S. Thompson to the Vancouver Sun. Read Thompson's entire application letter in the Ottawa Citizen


Via @FlyontheWall_10.

using the web right

Next week I'll share with you a few things I learned at MagNet, but for now I'd like to draw your attention to an article shown by John Clinton at Thursday's session "The Future of Publishing: The Big Players, the Big Picture."

As a supplement to Fortune's April 13 cover story, the magazine has produced a rich media version of the article. Powered by Flyp, the online version of "How to get a Job" includes video interviews, audio clips and an interactive map. It's a smart way to layer in all the information that we often try to fit into a heavily packaged service piece in print, without some of the space constraints. Love it, love it, love it.

from internet to print

With the exodus of print to online, it's nice to see an interesting twist on the movement. As posted on magCulture, duo Ben Terrett and Russell Davies have taken a selection of blog posts and Twitter feeds and published them as a tabloid newsprint publication to beautiful effect. Surely it's not a viable commercial solution, but the creative thinking about form is possibly the type of thinking that could stave off the end of print (if you in fact believe the end is nigh). Print is not the internet and the internet is not print. Put in the effort to make print enjoyable, to make it an experience unlike another, and readers will stick around.