Magazine Eyeballs Its Subscribers 301
No_Weak_Heart writes "Talk about 'know your customers' -- the NY Times has an interesting article about Reason Magazine's upcoming June issue. Each of the print magazine's 40,000 subscribers will receive a copy of the mag with their name and a satellite photo of their home on the cover!" Although described as a "cover stunt", the magazine's editor "said that the parlor trick could have profound implications as database and printing capabilities grow."
Wouldn't it be better... (Score:3, Funny)
Let down (Score:1, Funny)
newstand copies? (Score:5, Funny)
GF.
OMG (Score:5, Funny)
A-ha! (Score:3, Funny)
Streisand wouldn't approve (Score:3, Funny)
When will... (Score:3, Funny)
What if... (Score:3, Funny)
Facilitation of voyeurism (Score:5, Funny)
Hopefully some of the subscribers live in neighborhoods with a lot of rooftop pools--and pool parties.
It'll get ugly... (Score:0, Funny)
Whizbang! (Score:5, Funny)
Now all I need is my cardboard mooning man cut out to put in my window. Hoo ha!
PO Box (Score:4, Funny)
Re:That's a great idea (Score:2, Funny)
Either:
a. Slashdot is wilfully defrauding NYT of their free registrations; or
b. Slashdot has been taken over by Google in a deal under which the existing VA Software shareholders each get one GMail account per previously held share.
I can see her house from here! (Score:3, Funny)
- Some Architect Dude
Easier than a zip code? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:newstand copies? (Score:4, Funny)
Any subscriber in Seattle? (Score:1, Funny)
Dated photographs reduce the shock effect (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Yawn. (Score:1, Funny)
This is not paranoid conspiracy thoery, the government freely admits it can do that but of course they won't share the images.
Customized Home & Garden's Magazine (Score:5, Funny)
And they could even analyze your house & land for marketing opportunities. If the satellite veiw is oblique and the paint is peeling, they could forward your name to the local aluminum siding company or house painters.
Time to get a PO box!
Re:Hate to burst your bubble (Score:4, Funny)
I'll really be scared in the future... (Score:1, Funny)
Costs somewhat offset... (Score:4, Funny)
And what if... (Score:2, Funny)
My Mailman (Score:5, Funny)
Glad I'm not a subscriber... (Score:5, Funny)
My magazine cover would feature the goatse guy.
Re:Cusomized (Score:5, Funny)
You must not be using the same internet I'm using!
Re:newstand copies? (Score:2, Funny)
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Oh I can see it now... (Score:3, Funny)
-looks closer- Hey hun is that you? What are doing with the neighbors wife? Why is she naked??
More scary (Score:5, Funny)
John.
This is your Life.... (Score:2, Funny)
This exists already (Score:3, Funny)
It's called Maxim [maximonline.com].
Re:Facilitation of voyeurism (Score:1, Funny)
Re:My Mailman (Score:5, Funny)
As he delivers the magazines, he notices that the red circle is moving with him.
They know where you are, Mailman!! Run! Run!
Re:newstand copies? (Score:2, Funny)
Newsie: That's next month's issue, just came in.
Guy: Uh-oh.
Wouldn't it suck if (Score:4, Funny)
LK
That's NOTHING, This Is WORSE.... (Score:4, Funny)
And that's not just my copy, that's *all of them*. I hear Hugh Hefner was pissed because I dissed him on Fark.
The Lesson? Don't mess with guys who buy ink by the barrel and can photoshop a tattoo of Fabio onto your butt.
what bothers me about this isn't the privacy issue (Score:2, Funny)
But what kind of magazine would it be? People read Car and Driver, Discover, Time, whatever because, on the whole, most or all of the articles already appeal to the reader. If I only got one magazine, and that one magazine had everything I might want to read in it, it'd transcend the definition of "magazine" and go straight on to "encyclopedia". After all, I'm a guy with a lot of interests - porn^H^H^H^H art, computers, little sports, little world news, little business, etc. etc. etc.
There'd also have to be a fantastic way to keep track of my changing reading habits. I'm not reading the same thing I was a year - or even 6 months! - ago.
There'd also be no more "Did you see the article in BLAH?" If they fine-tune this thing too much, get my profile so unique, it's possible that none of my friends will read the same articles as me, and have no opportunity to do so, since their ultra-huge-personalized-magazine won't include it, and they can't get just that article or 3.99 magazine on the rack anymore.
Besides, doctor's offices would be filled with magazines that nobody would want to read
Re:newstand copies? (Score:2, Funny)
Sounds like Larry Flynt should be heading up that department.
Re:slow news day? (Score:3, Funny)
It goes something like "Oh Canada, eh?", right?
Re:newstand copies? (Score:2, Funny)
This leaves me no choice... (Score:1, Funny)
Personalized Cover Story to Boot! (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Reason (Score:1, Funny)
Hmmmm
So when I pick this up on the newstand.... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:usually, I am paranoid, this though? no. (Score:1, Funny)
they should call it "dbNation"
throw in a mulder/scully type duo and the geeks will come.
YOU FAIL IT (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Whizbang! (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Reason (Score:4, Funny)
Perhaps this is their way of illustrating just how bad an idea it is to give anyone your address...Teaching by demonstration, if you will...
Re:It's a rather easy magic trick to pull off... (Score:3, Funny)
Of course now that I've looked at the image I have this huge feeling of guilt for all the trees that got knocked down to build my house. Oh well...
Re:slow news day? (Score:1, Funny)
Indicator choice (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Customized Home & Garden's Magazine (Score:3, Funny)
"Look how nice and neat the Jones' yard is! [shuffles in front of the TV to block your view of the big game] Why doesn't ours look like that?!"
Re:slow news day? (Score:2, Funny)
Or at least make some people wonder why so many people are interested in that address.
Re:"Libertarians" are dominant faction in GOP. (Score:1, Funny)
Don't be a sheep.
Re:YOU FAIL IT (Score:3, Funny)
-fren
Re:slow news day? (Score:1, Funny)