[HN Gopher] Luxury Media
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Luxury Media
Author : zdw
Score : 56 points
Date : 2022-09-22 20:00 UTC (3 hours ago)
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| yrgulation wrote:
| I used to pay for the MIT Tech Review printed magazine until i
| realised its basically useless, devoid of novelty and everything
| in it could be found online. I see no benefit in printed
| magazines, they follow the exact same trends and chase the exact
| same outrage as online.
| reidjs wrote:
| I don't think anyone is trying to claim that magazines are
| educational. They have some entertainment value and I'll take
| any excuse to not stare at a screen for a few hours.
| chazeon wrote:
| I once subscribed to a paper magazine. But since like the second
| month, I found I never read it, barely have time for it. Those
| paper just goes straight to the trash. It's luxury in the sense
| that a lot of waste is created in the process of consumption. But
| on-demand printing might solve the problem.
| bigmattystyles wrote:
| WRT to
|
| >> 11. In fact: No. Popups. Ever.
|
| Not quite for me, I do find the little subscription card inserts
| within magazines very annoying. I have to rip them out and they
| always tear awfully, bending the spine of magazine.
| seydor wrote:
| next he 'll discover that radio shows are better than podcasts
| themagician wrote:
| This is a little quip, but IMO radio shows often are much
| better than today's "podcasts."
|
| It feels like a majority of what people call podcasts today are
| just random people talking to each other, often impromptu. It's
| often by people with no interview skills and no sense for how
| to produce engaging radio. And, more often than not, it feels
| like background noise. Sometimes that's enjoyable, but honestly
| if that's what I'm looking for I'll just listen to Howard
| Stern, the BBC or NPR.
|
| What I loved about podcasts was that it was a medium which
| allowed for really great radio drama and storytelling. For the
| longest time what a podcast was, to me, was Radiolab, This
| American Life, Serial, The Moth, The Truth, etc.. Something
| with some real sound design behind it... where someone is
| trying to create something both engaging and enjoyable to
| listen to. When podcasts started to blow up after Serial I
| really hoped that we'd get more of that. But it seems like what
| we've gotten is a proliferation of random people just...
| rambling.
|
| This makes me sound pretentious AF but I really do not
| understand why people listen to some of this stuff. Every now
| and then I'll listen to something new in the top 20 list and
| well... I think I'm getting to the "back in my day we walked up
| hills both way" age now, but man... the majority of today's
| podcasts are really bad. Like, physically painful to actually
| listen to. I don't know how and why people do. It feels like
| garbage tier radio.
| reidjs wrote:
| Your local radio show will undoubtedly be better than the
| average podcast because there's no barrier to entry for
| podcasts. However, the high tier podcasts are on average way
| better than anything your local radio show can produce.
| nice_byte wrote:
| One of the main points of what people call "podcasts" (and
| streams as well) is creating parasocial relationships that
| make mind-numbing chores more pleasant by making it seem like
| you're hanging out with a group of friends in the background.
|
| To that end, stuff like interviewing skills, presentation,
| depth of discussion, is unnecessary and maybe even
| detrimental. What matters is rawness, authenticity,
| serendipity and light-heartedness. When you listen to this
| stuff, you're not deeply engaging with the content.
| exolymph wrote:
| And the Atlantic isn't even a particularly high-end magazine!
| Granted, the really fancy ones will run you more like $20.
| dnissley wrote:
| Another example is https://www.palladiummag.com/subscribe/ -- it
| costs a pretty penny at $50/mo with issues only being released
| once a quarter, so $150 per issue. But I do think of it as more
| of a "thank you" gift for a charitable donation to a project I
| support, since I believe all the articles in each one are all
| available online before the print version comes out.
| jmathai wrote:
| The older I get - the more I crave tactile experiences. I was
| glad he mentioned the experience of listening to albums (well,
| it's not the listening that's so calming after all - he is right
| on that).
|
| Everything has trade offs and as time goes on I value the
| benefits of technology less and less. I believe this has more to
| do with age than any sort of absolute value judgement.
|
| I should stop at the grocery store on the way home.
| yamtaddle wrote:
| > Everything has trade offs and as time goes on I value the
| benefits of technology less and less. I believe this has more
| to do with age than any sort of absolute value judgement.
|
| For me it's long observation of tech improvements not improving
| _happiness_ or _contentment_. More choices, more efficiency--
| just means more time trying to decide, and that you 're
| expected to do more and context-switch more in less time.
|
| I think there was probably a sweet spot somewhere along the
| line--or probably a bunch of sweet spots, for separate things--
| and in many respects we're way past it now.
| admax88qqq wrote:
| Are the tech improvements truly the cause? Or are you just
| becoming less happy/content as you age. The stereotype of a
| crotchety old person comes to mind.
|
| The Douglas Adam's quote comes to mind
| https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/39828-i-ve-come-up-with-
| a-s...
|
| _"I 've come up with a set of rules that describe our
| reactions to technologies:
|
| 1. Anything that is in the world when you're born is normal
| and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world
| works.
|
| 2. Anything that's invented between when you're fifteen and
| thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can
| probably get a career in it.
|
| 3. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the
| natural order of things."_
| ancientstraits wrote:
| Perhaps someone should make a monthly HN magazine, with the top
| articles and a "Who's Hiring?" section.
| buescher wrote:
| I would subsribe to Byte, DDJ, Creative Computing, and
| Scientific American (pre-1990 to be generous, maybe pre-1970 if
| I'm not), if their equivalents existed today.
| Lammy wrote:
| > I guess the credit-card company reported my grocery purchases
| to, well, someone
|
| More like 20-30 someones. Cash is king!
| paulhart wrote:
| Apparently Tim hasn't seen publications like Wallpaper[0] and
| Monocle[1] (both created by Tyler Brule). Ironically, those kinds
| of aspirational/luxury magazines are printed on heavy stock, and
| therefore lack a few of the traits that he enjoyed about The
| Atlantic.
|
| [0]: http://wallpaper.com/ [1]: https://monocle.com/
| macintux wrote:
| When I was in high school I was a big fan of _The Atlantic_ and
| _The Economist_. The Atlantic cost something ridiculous, I think
| it was $14 for two years. The Economist was at least 10 times
| that.
|
| So I subscribed to the former and would buy the latter whenever I
| found a copy at a store.
|
| Both were amazing experiences to read; growing up in Indiana I
| didn't have much exposure to the international and cultural
| flavor that they reveled in.
|
| And of course the tactile experience really is dramatically
| better than anything digital.
| hammock wrote:
| There are a lot of high-end niche magazines around. You just have
| to know where to find them. Some off the top of my head:
|
| Field Ethos
|
| The Modern Luxury (house,
| https://modernluxurymedia.com/Advertise#print)
|
| The Scout Guide (house)
|
| Etc
| hn_throwaway_99 wrote:
| I'm going to push back a little bit against "The Modern Luxury"
| set of magazines. It feels like (and I believe it is) those
| glossies you see in nice hotel rooms about the city where you
| are staying. The problem is that, while the pictures are
| usually nice, the content feels like the equivalent of an "SEO
| page" - that is, the content is extremely _low_ quality in my
| opinion. These days it feels like there is not a lot of
| daylight between the "articles" in those types of magazines
| and AI-generated text.
|
| This is in contrast to magazines like The Atlantic, The
| Economist, etc. where the actual articles are unique and not
| available elsewhere.
|
| Totally accept that this could just be my bias and not a
| universal feeling.
| MR4D wrote:
| Insightful take, which mirrors my reasons for buying paper
| newspapers when I travel.
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