This is the weekend edition of TheMarioBlog and will be updated as needed. The next blog post is Monday, May 11.
I wonder why the Quartz potpourri of story mixing has not caught up with newsrooms across the world.
It is, in my view, a catalog with more excitement in it than the old Sears Catalog that my mother awaited eagerly for in the 1960s.
This is a catalog that delivers the goodies that the human condition craves for: the serious stuff that we must know and become aware of, and the trendy, not so earth shattering, but, heck, fun to know and to share at that next happy hour gathering.
I have visited the Quartz newsroom, and I know that it is the type of environment that invites these obsessions.
Quartz never existed as a printed product, but, you know? There are Sundays when I crave a Sunday Quartz Mega Obsession edition with the best of the week’s obsessions that I may have missed.
Food for thought, Kevin Delaney and crew.
Take a look at this string of Quartz Tweets. The visuals, help, too.
I use Quartz as a source of inspiration and urge you to do so, too.
These front pages offer an element of surprise
And so, as I passed through the Frankfurt Airport early Monday morning, they still had some of the Sunday papers out and I caught a glimpse of front pages displaying those "invisible" stories that surprise through headlines and visuals. Indeed, the stories we did not know about via digital media the day before.
For your perusal here:
Handelsblatt, the financial daily: leads with a story about industrial espionage, a timely topic, especially with allegations that perhaps Germany has been assisting the United States with industrial espionage. Headline reads: The Bugging.
Kurier (Austria), a story about medicine and health, with a headline that reads: 15 Medical Myths: is the vegan lifestyle healthy?
Die Presse (Austria): Leads with a piece about the deterioration of the country's roads and finding the money to fix them. Headline reads: Expensive place.