But Don't Cry for Her, Ardent Tina

Tina Brown. That girl's got spunk! How else can you explain her ability to crash and burn the launch of a national magazine after creating one of the biggest promotional campaigns in publishing history? Not to mention that she ran up a $40 million dollar debt, and now can't even pay off the freelance writers who were putting together the next issue. Poor Tina.

What's to blame for the failure? Poor management? Saturated market? Defunct publication strategy? No, she's pretty sure it's the terrorists.

We, the editors of LostBrain, (a site with a budget that is quite honestly $15.95 per month) can't quite figure out how the terrorists had anything to do with Talk's $40 million debt, but we're going to overlook that one.

People in the industry speculate Tina will never work in magazines again. We doubt it, and we're here to make her an offer. Hell, this is the woman who dressed up Gwyneth Paltrow like Barbarella and put her on the cover of her first issue. We figure she's got some sort of publishing know-how.

And so, LostBrain has carefully researched (googled for a few minutes) the markets of four different industries that are just begging for trade journals. We're offering Tina, here and now, a budget of $15.95 per month to take one of these case studies and run with it. Here ya go Tina! We're with ya all the way! Blank check baby! Actually...it's just blank where the "notes" part is and with "Fifteen Dollars and Ninety Five Cents" where the "amount" part is.

- Travis Daub and Brandon Stahl