On Birthdays & Other Rants

What to say about Birthdays and becoming another year older? I believe I'll spare my patient readers a lot of mushy moralizing and navel-gazing. Below you'll read a rant I sent to the publishers of Webshots. Here's feedback I'm sending the publishers of Maclean's Magazine:

As honourable an endeavour as it is to celebrate the lives of ordinary Canadians as you have been doing with your series of obituaries in the end-pages of Maclean's; I believe it would be even better to recognize the achievements of Canadians whose efforts don't usually make headlines while they are yet living. In particular, featuring articles on young Canadians would present positive role-models and serve to gain you new readers of that generation. I'm not sure how you find the stories for your obituary columns, but I'm sure you could use similar methods to find living subjects.

By the way, I'm enjoying the opportunity to read my subscription copy of Maclean's in Zinio Reader; I just wish there was some way I could configure it to bypass pages that contain nothing but advertising. For sure I've solved the problem of scented pages.


Don't know if my comments to either publication will have any effect, but for sure nothing will happen if no one makes any noise.