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It’s no secret that the publishing industry has had a rough few years—a rough decade, really. Stephen Colbert acknowledged as much when he started a segment on his show last night by sharing with his viewers Time‘s latest (fake) cover story: “For the Love of God, Please Buy This Magazine: Why Editors’ Children Need to Eat, Too.” Some magazines, though, are thriving, even expanding—like Cosmopolitan, which just launched a long-awaited Mongolian edition. Colbert took this as a positive sign, using it as the basis for some sage advice for print media.

Dylan Stableford of The Wrap’s Media Alley blog looked around on Twitter to find out which national magazines had the most Twitter followers. After analyzing his findings, Stableford was surprised to find that “the biggest magazines in terms of print circulation have a shockingly puny presence on Twitter.” For example, Good Housekeeping (4.4 million circulation, 4,683 followers) didn’t break the Top 25. Neither did AARP The Magazine (24 million circ., 358 followers), which, really, should shock nobody. Meanwhile, Time (3.4 million circ., 2.2 million followers) and the embattled Newsweek (1.9 million circ., 1.2 million followers) both placed in the top ten.

There’s been lot’s of nicely ironic, hullabaloo these last few days regarding Chris Anderson being cited for plagiarism in his new book Free: The Future of a Radical Price. The trickiness of using Wikipedia as a source was given as one of the reasons the attributions had been left out. Anderson said he publishers were “uncomfortable with the changing nature of Wikipedia,” and wanted him to note the date he had viewed the page, which Anderson felt was “clumsy and archaic.” In actuality this entire episode feels “clumsy and archaic”, much like the medium of the printed word!