The Digital Wedding Forum blog – not a site I frequent, mind you – revealed that third party applications were being allowed to print your Facebook photos. That meant that anyone with access to your photos on Facebook could print them at Walmart, Walgreens, Target, Shutterfly, Pixable, and Kodak Easy Share.

An updated entry on the DWF blog highlighted the offending Facebook photo apps. As they noted, the fix is quite simple, but annoyingly, you must take action to opt-out of having your Facebook photos printed.

Opting Out of Facebook Photo Apps

Step 1: Go to Application

First make sure you’re logged in to Facebook. Then click on a Facebook application link from the list below.

• Walmart Facebook App
• Walgreens Facebook App
• Target Facebook App
• Shutterfly Facebook App
• Pixable Facebook App
• Kodak Facebook App

Step 2: Block Application

On the app’s Facebook page, find the link that says Block Application. Click on that link and confirm your choice. That’s it! You’ll now be opted out of allowing that Facebook application to print your photos.

The Tennessean had an interesting article this morning about where to eat late in Nashville. I’ve always wondered which restaurants were open late – other than Waffle House – and now I know! Here are ten yummy restaurants you can go to after a late night game or concert.

10 Places to Eat Late in Nashville

1. Athens Family Restaurant
   Open 24 Hours
2. Cafe Coco
   Open 24 Hours
3. Cabana
   Open until 2AM
4. The Goldrush Restaurant and Bar
   Open until 1:30AM
5. The Hermitage Cafe
   Open until 1:30AM
6. Paradise Park Trailer Resort
   Open until 4AM
7. The Patterson House
   Open until 2:15AM Tuesday-Sunday
8. Prince’s Hot Chicken Shack
   Open until 4AM Friday-Saturday
9. Sunset Grill
   Open until Midnight Monday-Thursday, 1:30AM Friday-Saturday
10. Suzy Wong’s House of Yum
    Open until 2AM Monday, 11PM Sunday-Tuesday, 4AM Wednesday- Saturday

I wanted each page to communicate its true purpose. That meant replacing the site name from the H1 heading element, and replacing it with the actual page or blog entry title. It doesn’t mean I got rid of the site name altogether on sub-pages. Instead, I relegated it to the top of the sidebar.

The HTML is maximumly optimized. The sidebar and navigation is now secondary to the content. Semantic elements, like header, footer, section, nav, and article, are also more properly implemented.

There are still key elements from the first version of the Modest WordPress theme that I kept. For example, the general layout is still the same, and the attention to forcing a minimal list of categories and pages remains (thanks to the fixed position used in the CSS).

The CSS is greatly reduced, and as always, I gave some attention to the print stylesheet.

Moving to the internet made sense not just to reduce distribution costs but because publishers could still collect the demographic information necessary to tailor content and provide relevant advertising. The problem with the iPad is Jobs et. al. are very unwilling to share this information and in many ways prohibit a publications relationship with its readers, the real essence to success.

Someone will eventually get the magazine subscription model down (probably as an app, instead of via iBooks), and once that happens, every other publisher will follow suit. I also think that an application, versus a website, will provide much more user data than site analytics. Just because it doesn’t exist now, doesn’t mean it can’t or won’t exist very soon. Apple will either provide the necessary calls, or someone will develop a workaround.

The core issue is that we are a still a tangible society. We like to see and feel things. Why do you think so many web magazines fail? Yes many made that transition with music but magazines are different. Most magazines sit on a coffee table and we browse through them when we have a few minutes (the same can not be said for news consumption). Not only is the iPad trying to change distribution but the fundamental way in which we consume magazine content. I’m not sure if the masses are ready for this change and, even if they are, publishers will have lost that relationship and lose either way.

Tangible is what we know, it’s what we’re familiar with. It’s only a matter of time, not a matter of “it won’t happen” when digital magazines replace physical magazines. iPads (and iPad alternatives) will replace paper. It may take a generation before it fully happens, but it will happen. Even paper companies know this, which is why they’re expanding into different areas, like trying to convince other countries that don’t use toilet paper, to use toilet paper (I’m not kidding).

The iPad is a game changer. Once a company gets digital magazine subscriptions right – the right pricing, interactivity, and delivery – digital magazines will be the obvious choice for consuming that type of media. Also, although it’s not the perfect example, vinyl records and CDs with artwork, provide an example of users changing over to a digital medium. It took a generation to make the conversion from tangible to digital music, just like I’m predicting will happen with magazines (if not much sooner). The majority of music lovers are perfectly content with digital artwork and having their songs exist in an intangible and highly portable space.

Digital magazines will remain unique enough from websites, mainly because of their linear structure. Unlike a typical website that is designed for task oriented navigation, magazines have a start and finish. Digital magazines will continue to walk the user through a carefully woven experience. I can only imagine that this linear path will be even more enhanced when publishers include interactive experiences along the way.