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At the World Magazine Congress in London this week, Felix Dennis, the founding publisher of Maxim who sold the lad title along with Blender and Stuff—but not The Week—to Alpha Media for a reported $240 million two years ago, said in an interview that now “everything I own is for sale,” including his beloved news magazine.

But Felix Dennis says a lot of things.

Last year, he allegedly told a reporter that he once pushed a man off a cliff, w More...

Quick programming note. FOLIO: will be covering tonight's National Magazine Awards live from Jazz @ Lincoln Center in New York. We'll be posting updates to our Twitter feed throughout the night, so follow along here.

Alternatively, you can follow all of the Twittering from FOLIO: and other members of the so-called Twitterati here.

(If you are attending and plan to Twitter, please use the More...

UPDATE: Winners Announced 

The 2009 National Magazine Awards will be doled out tonight at a ceremony in New York. This year, the normally lavish, black tie affair has been downgraded to "cocktail attire" ("We're responding to the economy," Sid Holt, the American Society of Magazine Editors CEO said yesterday during ASME's annual lunch) and, given the endless waves of layoffs and magazine closings, the vibe is expected to be subdued ("Don't be surprised if it's solemn" More...

Condé Nast announced this morning that it will shutter Portfolio, the troubled business magazine that it spent more than $100 million to launch. News of the closing first appeared on Wall Street Journal blogger Peter Kaftka’s Twitter feed, and was quickly confirmed by Jeff Bercovici, Portfolio’s own blogger.

Below, a sample of reactions from the blogosphere, Twitter and the Web:

The most interesting part of the Atlantic’s “Future of Media” conversation last night—held at Atlantic president Justin Smith’s loft in lower Manhattan—wasn’t about the death of the New York Times or newspapers (although it was talked about plenty) or magazines or traditional journalism, or about the rise of social media and Twitter (although plenty of guests were doing just that).

It was about the role of the editor in the new media fray.

“This is not publishing; this is broadcast,” Andrew Sullivan, one of the Atlantic’s star More...

Like most Americans, I’m a consumer of pop culture. Of Hollywood. Angelina. Brad. Britney. John and Jen. Madonna. The Sham-Wow guy. The subsequent bust of the Sham-Wow guy.

I’m not above any of it. And unlike perhaps some media critics, I don’t fault celebrity magazine publishers for capitalizing on the public’s fascination with celebrity. Go for it. I like my orange juice with pulp.

And I don’t claim to be holier More...

With all the talk surrounding paid content online and so-called micropayments—and publishers like Time Inc., Hearst and Rodale said to be developing models with a renewed hope that they can finally charge something for their Web content—little has been mentioned of another Web 1.0 concept making a surprise return: the online “tip jar.”

Last week, the Consumerist, the blog now owned by Consumer Reports, put one up.

When Consumer Reports bought the Consumerist back in late December, it was im More...

Ah, technology.

The first copies of “mine,” Time Inc.’s experiment in free, customized content in magazine form, hit mailboxes this week. So far, the reviews are mixed (as one commenter wrote: “good concept, poor execution”). See AD managing editor Bill Mickey’s take here.

Meanwhile, some of the magazine’s launch subscribers also received an e-mail from Time Inc. Media Group president Wayne Powers, who says that a “computer error” may have affected th More...

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Perhaps you’ve heard about Ashton Kutcher (the actor known for such Oscar-nominated films as Dude, Where’s My Car?) and his battle with CNN in the race to reach one million “followers” on Twitter. Kutcher has offered his “millionth follower” a copy of Guitar Hero and 10,000 nets to fight malaria in third world countries. Seriously. Electronic Arts, the video game producer, upped the offer to include a role i More...

Earlier today I attended the 13th annual New York Magazine Day. Here are my live Twitter updates—essentially a “liveblog” or running notes, in reverse chronological order—from the event.

Ann Moore: "I'm absolutely sure each of the Time Inc. brands I work on will be standing long after we're all gone." #nymagday about 9 hours ago from mobile web

Moore: "Winters, like recessions, do end." #nymagday about 9 hours ago from mobile web
    
Moore: Ex-TW CEO Dick Parsons is "one cool cat." #nymagday about 9 hours ago from mo More...

During her keynote at New York Magazine Day, Time Inc. CEO Ann Moore revealed more details about the publisher’s Time Inc. University, a sort of in-house adult education program for Time Inc. employees, with classes taught by its upper executives.

Here, via a company e-mail, is a list of who’s teaching what in Time Inc. University’s “Learn from a Leader” series:

A Lesson in Teamwork and Strategy

Ann Moore [Time Inc. CEO] will teach a class titled A Lesson in Teamwork More...

There are something like 10 million people using Twitter now, depending on who you believe. Small compared to Facebook, which just passed the 200 million "member" mark, but certainly not insignificant.

We're putting together a list of the 20 most essential Twitter feeds for magazine executives to follow. (Aside from FOLIO:’s essential @foliomag feed, of course.)

Got one? Send to tips [AT] foliomag.com.