On micro magazines

Yesterday, Seth Godin was making an argument for micro magazines, which he defines as digital (e.g. PDF), subscriber based (e.g. RSS or email), focussed, community and ad supported containers of well written pieces. The concept of magazine seems to revive electronically. With the launch of the iPad many publishers are rushing out electronic, slightly more interactive, equivalents of their paper based media. I don’t really mind they are doing it, it saves paper and distribution costs.But I am not excited either.The main reason that I am not excited about the electronic (micro)
magazines is because of the difficulty of ‘sharing’ in the non web
formats they use. Sharing an article from an iPad app, or from a PDF, is harder than just bookmarking it, or sending the link to a friend. Or
starting a discussion around a linked article. There is no uniform
interface.Yes, there is hardly an end to all the content that is published online. But I don’t see …