Comments on: Glad that’s over! Let’s golf! http://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/DaveDuffy/2009/05/10/glad-that%e2%80%99s-over-let%e2%80%99s-golf/ Behind the scenes of Backwoods Home Magazine with Dave Duffy. Sat, 20 Mar 2010 23:40:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Dave Duffy http://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/DaveDuffy/2009/05/10/glad-that%e2%80%99s-over-let%e2%80%99s-golf/comment-page-1/#comment-2360 Dave Duffy Thu, 21 May 2009 06:24:49 +0000 http://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/DaveDuffy/?p=923#comment-2360 Jay: Amazingly, you are the first person to ask me. The print readership and the online readership must be totally different people. We cancelled the digital issue, and I talk about the cancellation in the new issue, which just went to print. Instead we are going to do an online community section on the website, which will include a pdf version of a digital issue as an extra. It may take another month to get this part of the website up. A digital issue the way other magazines are doing it just didn't make sense after I gave it some thought. Technology is moving too fast to just put out a static digital issue. I thought of how technology took us from the horse and buggy to automobiles, and I realized back then they needed an interim stage to make the transition -- such as putting "whip sockets" in the first autos so as to ease the transition for people used to a horse and buggy. We don't need whip sockets (or a digital issue) today, but instead we need a full blown modern version of a magazine (or whatever we're going to call it) to communicate self-reliance information. This will be an interactive part of the website where readers can give and get feedback, post photos, videos, and other info, and do a lot of cool stuff that is not possible with just a digital issue. We announced a digital issue too soon in the print issue, before we had a chance to really think-through what this modern technological age called for. Dave Jay:

Amazingly, you are the first person to ask me. The print readership and the online readership must be totally different people. We cancelled the digital issue, and I talk about the cancellation in the new issue, which just went to print. Instead we are going to do an online community section on the website, which will include a pdf version of a digital issue as an extra. It may take another month to get this part of the website up.

A digital issue the way other magazines are doing it just didn’t make sense after I gave it some thought. Technology is moving too fast to just put out a static digital issue. I thought of how technology took us from the horse and buggy to automobiles, and I realized back then they needed an interim stage to make the transition — such as putting “whip sockets” in the first autos so as to ease the transition for people used to a horse and buggy. We don’t need whip sockets (or a digital issue) today, but instead we need a full blown modern version of a magazine (or whatever we’re going to call it) to communicate self-reliance information.

This will be an interactive part of the website where readers can give and get feedback, post photos, videos, and other info, and do a lot of cool stuff that is not possible with just a digital issue.

We announced a digital issue too soon in the print issue, before we had a chance to really think-through what this modern technological age called for.

Dave

]]> By: Jay from PA http://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/DaveDuffy/2009/05/10/glad-that%e2%80%99s-over-let%e2%80%99s-golf/comment-page-1/#comment-2353 Jay from PA Sat, 16 May 2009 18:38:35 +0000 http://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/DaveDuffy/?p=923#comment-2353 Dave, Any word on where the digital issue of the current issue is? My wife has been bugging me for it for days now and I can't find it anywhere on the website. Jay Dave,

Any word on where the digital issue of the current issue is? My wife has been bugging me for it for days now and I can’t find it anywhere on the website.

Jay

]]> By: Dave Duffy http://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/DaveDuffy/2009/05/10/glad-that%e2%80%99s-over-let%e2%80%99s-golf/comment-page-1/#comment-2349 Dave Duffy Wed, 13 May 2009 05:39:04 +0000 http://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/DaveDuffy/?p=923#comment-2349 We have had some of the parts and will have the rest as Eric builds. He's run short of cash for materials so we'll just wait until he's ready. I keep in touch with him and his mom, Dorothy Ainsworth, so this series will get done. We have had some of the parts and will have the rest as Eric builds. He’s run short of cash for materials so we’ll just wait until he’s ready. I keep in touch with him and his mom, Dorothy Ainsworth, so this series will get done.

]]> By: Debby Rich http://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/DaveDuffy/2009/05/10/glad-that%e2%80%99s-over-let%e2%80%99s-golf/comment-page-1/#comment-2348 Debby Rich Tue, 12 May 2009 08:09:13 +0000 http://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/DaveDuffy/?p=923#comment-2348 Dear Mr. Duffy. So sorry to hear that you were really sick. It mush have been bad. Question for you. This time last year you promised to do a four part series on the house that Eric built. How is his house comming alone and are you going to finish the series or did I miss something, Well take care and get over what ever you had. Debby Dear Mr. Duffy.
So sorry to hear that you were really
sick. It mush have been bad.
Question for you. This time last year
you promised to do a four part series
on the house that Eric built. How is
his house comming alone and are you
going to finish the series or did I miss
something,
Well take care and get over what ever
you had.
Debby

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