 Poster: A snowHead
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Hi All,
can anyone point me at a link for daily mail snow magazine, if such a think exists ?
I've tried the usual yahoo, jeeves, and searching here, but no joy...
cheers,
Toby
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Toby, they don't have a web site.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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No, they firmly believe in converting what we do into ink and paper and sending lorryloads of it around the country to people who put it on to racks for other people to browse and probably not buy.
But I bought a copy last winter and thought it had improved quite a bit. Pity about the 'Free Ski Show Tickets' which didn't exist.
The Daily Mail has an interesting attitude to the internet. The newspaper only recently went on line.
They can't be considering the internet a threat, can they?
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They can't be considering the internet a threat, can they?
They consider everything else a threat, so why not?
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David Goldsmith, they used to have a web site, but they pulled it a couple of years back cause they couldn't make enough money from it.
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You didn't send them a donation?
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i did, but they never published it
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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I wonder if they will mention snowHeads, in return for all this glowing publicity?
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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I was acutally thinking of telling them about snowHeads. Doubt if they'd turn up though.
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What was your donation about? If it's any good the committee might agree to publish it here.
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You know it makes sense.
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Jeeeez! If I've told Fuxup once, I've told him a thousand times . . . Don't send your donations in glass bottles, it gums up the works at the central sorting office.
You'd have thought that he'd've worked that out by now, he's been doing it long enough! 
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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That's uncharacteristically vulgar of you, Masque, I think he was referring to his donation of Irish Punts (no longer legal tender) and reminiscences of Whistler.
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Poster: A snowHead
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David Goldsmith, I lived in Northern Ireland, which uses GBP...
DG, I sent in two articles, and within a couple of months their editor-in-chief wrote in the magazine about the same two topics, and his comments were VERY SIMILAR to mine. I actually raised this with their editor, who told me that their EIC had written them about 6 months previous, but it was a coincidence.
One was about the "single supplement", which, I believe is a money-making form of discrimination, and the other was about skier responsibility.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Wear The Fox Hat, sorry about that. I actually knew that and was being irresponsible.
If you were plagiarised, it's regrettable. In a sport with a million dimensions, editors shouldn't be short of ideas.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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DG, not a problem.
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Vulgar . . . moi?
David, you know as well as I do that there are editors and there are bean counters and these days the beanies are in charge. I had an acquaintance who worked for the DMS&SMag and he/she/it wasn't all that complementary about the senior staff. OK it was hearsay, but it did echo Fox's thoughts. The mag itself has improved greatly over the last few years, but what it really needs is an online PDF archive of its articles and tests. Cheap and easy to do and I’m sure advertisers like Slush & Rubble could make it economically viable.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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What it needs is less cowdoo (and repetitive advertising) about their shite ski show and some real skiing journalism, a la Ski Survey and Skiing UK (RIP) magazine.
What's the betting they'll have another 'feature' on thirty things you must do on the slopes?
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Kev, perhaps they'll have "features" on whoever pays the most for them.
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Yes, I expect you're right WTFH but it's a shame their readership isn't interested in more invigorating articles that inspires one to go further in the sport. It really deals with the sport as a form of consumption which is so unambitious!
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EVERY season they have the same formats - All they do is alter content so it does not look to similiar. I got it last season as it gets me in the mood for the season, but not this time. Boring!
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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| Wear The Fox Hat wrote: |
| I was acutally thinking of telling them about snowHeads. Doubt if they'd turn up though. |
ahem...there are one or two of their writers who already are snowheads members.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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| kevin mcclean wrote: |
| What it needs is less cowdoo (and repetitive advertising) about their shite ski show and some real skiing journalism, a la Ski Survey and Skiing UK (RIP) magazine. |
It occurs to me that they must be doing something right as they have withstood the test of time and the mags you mentioned have not.
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davidof, what they have done is provided a magazine which fits. It doesn't do anything too startling, and it has good spin-offs. (the shows, and the readers holidays)
It feels "safe" and "comfortable" for skiers - I guess it's the SCGB of Brit ski mags.
Also, I believe its profitability comes, not from magazine sales, but from the advertising & spin-offs.
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You know it makes sense.
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| Wear The Fox Hat wrote: |
| I was acutally thinking of telling them about snowHeads. Doubt if they'd turn up though. |
ahem...there are one or two of their writers who already are snowheads members. |
David, that doesn't surprise me, but I was thinking more of Henry/Cat/etc - the full time magazine staff.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Wear The Fox Hat, do you have an editorial contact?
I'm writing an article about how the Vanoise Express etc is changing "sleepy little Plan Peisey", and would be keen to send it to them as well. Not bothered if they steal my work and publish it, as its all good publicity for Peisey-Vallandry!!
Thanks.
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Poster: A snowHead
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flying_squirrel, not at work, but check your PM tonight (as long as I remember)
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Grr!
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ta v much
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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FAQ
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This occured over several years and I always laughed when I saw it, last yearI do believethey actually got it the correct way round 
