Links tagged with “magazines”
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contextual dissemination Punk zines, punk fanzines
Scans of old punk zines. The excitement is so much more visceral than anything on the web. (via The Wire)
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Processed World
Archive of a magazine created by temp workers in San Francisco’s financial district in the 1980s. (via Web Curios)
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Scenario Magazine
“The magazine about tomorrow – made in collaboration with writers, thinkers, & artists from around the globe.” Quarterly. hadn’t heard of this. (via Ask MetaFilter)
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‘Les Temps Modernes’: End of an Epoch | by Mitchell Abidor | The New York Review of Books
Article from 2019 on the magazine’s 2018 closure.
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The Trade Journal Cooperative
“A niche trade journal delivered to your door, quarterly.” Sounds brilliant (if pricey), but US only. (via FaveJet)
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The Annual Register - Wikipedia
It “is a long-established reference work, written and published each year, which records and analyses the year’s major events, developments and trends throughout the world. It was first written in 1758…”
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The Real Review: a bi-monthly architecture magazine by Jack Self — Kickstarter
Sounds good: backed. I might have pledged more if the guy could have managed a smile. (via @cityofsound)
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No Rock And Roll Fun: What the pop papers say: The last NME
“If hip hop won - and that’s not an unfair suggestion - then the NME was very much the warrior who didn’t hear the war was at an end; fighting on deep in the jungle.”
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Archived Music Press | Scans from the Melody Maker and N.M.E. circa 1987-1996
Lots of blasts from the past here. The couple of copies of MM/NME that I still have are intriguing, mainly the small and unimportant bits rather than the high-profile interviews etc usually featured here.
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Subcompact Publishing — by Craig Mod
I’ve only read a third of this so far but it’s very good. There are so many opportunities for small publishing these days, while the old, slow big publishers struggle. (via @readmatter)
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Off The Page – David Hepworth on magazines and beyond: InPublishing
On how much has changed. “…you could supply the NME’s news editor with a piece of information secure in the knowledge that it would not escape into the wider world for the week it took to get through the production and publication process and actually appear on the page.” (via @matlock)
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Bookslut | WE WILL CONVERT THE KING IF POSSIBLE: The Greatness of Little Magazines
Really worth a read. “The Web, one would think, opens up all kinds of possibilities for imaginative typography or design a la BLAST, but adventurous publishing like that is rare. Why? The pageviews-for-cash, keywords-are-compulsory bottom line? Laziness? Dullness?” (via Magazine Modernisms)
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Modernist Journals Project
“Our primary mission is to produce digital editions of culturally significant magazines from around the early 20th century and make them freely available to the public on our website.” Fab.
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Magazine Modernisms | Dedicated to Modern Periodical Studies
A blog about interesting old magazines and journals.
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Delayed Gratification | The UK’s Quarterly Almanac | Last to breaking news
Sounds brilliant: “a quarterly publication from The Slow Journalism Company. Each issue distils three months of the UK’s political, cultural, scientific and sporting life into a witty magazine of record.”
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The Floodwaters Rise
Jason Scott has been busy importing loads of old computer magazines into Internet Archive. Great stuff (and a great job!).
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Ubuweb :: Dada Magazine
I love early 20th century avant-garde magazines and all that. Here, PDFs of issues 1-3 of ‘Dada’, from 1917 and 1918. All in French but still, just *feels* exciting.
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Flipboard | Beyond The Beyond
Bruce Sterling on Flipboard, magazines, etc. “Why not send me [Lady Gaga’s] Flipboard? Why not sell me that? By subscription. Then it’s magazines all over again. What fun!”
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Notes.husk.org: Incompetence, Malice and ereading
Yes, this. So many iPad magazines are focusing on the whizziness. I’d just want the easy-to-read-ness.
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Magazero |
A new online store for fairly obscure/”independent” magazines started by Ivan Pope. He plans to do Stack-style subscriptions soon. (via Warren Ellis)
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Cool Tools: The Best Magazine Articles Ever
Kevin Kelly is asking people to recommend the best magazine articles ever written. Too much good stuff to read. Excellent.
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LRB · Rosemary Hill · Keep Calm
From 2007, an article that keeps coming back to me, about the Co-operative Correspondence Club, a distributed newsletter for women that lasted most of the twentieth century.
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Hotfile.com: One click file hosting: macuser-2009-11-20-nov.pdf
Dodgy copy of an issue of MacUser (UK) from last year which includes a longer version of Leigh McMullen’s ‘Moving from Aperture to Lightroom’ article.
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The Wired Tablet App: A Video Demonstration | Epicenter | Wired.com
Wired magazine’s demo of their tablet version. We’re going to end up with a different UI for every single magazine/publisher aren’t we…? Oh dear. Also: “At the bottom we have … the scrubber.” Ha ha!
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The Online Photographer: Old TIME, New TIME
A nice comparison of two copies of Time magazine, from 1968 and today.
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Is the Magazine Dead? « Jimmy Wales
Wikipedia’s founder on small groups making their own magazines with a MagCloud/Wikia partnership.
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Warren Ellis » Paper Nets
“I keep wondering. What can a one-writer magazine look like?” Me too.
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My Cassette’s Just Like A Bazooka?
A complete discography for all the tapes/records/CDs given away by NME between 1981 and 1988. Also some good commentary on the music and the paper. All we need now is a torrent…
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Welcome, ‘Wired’. We call this land “Internet” | Boing Boing Gadgets
Interesting thread on Wired mag vs Wired.com, the relative importance and worth of each, their writers, conflicts of differing deadlines, content length, etc. No easy answers.
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Gallery of covers from the 1990s version of Wired UK | Technology | guardian.co.uk
I guess all that scanning and stitching together paid off.
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Tabbloid
Will regularly email you a PDF of your chosen RSS feeds. Couldn’t be much simpler. (via Russell Davies)
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STACK independent magazine subscription and delivery
Subscribe to a mixture of magazines. Lovely idea. The limited selection is a bit too “style” for my taste, but still. (via Russell Davies)
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Newspapers and magazines - Digital National library of Serbia
Scanned and browsable issues, from the avant-garde ‘Zenit’ to ‘Advanced Beekeeping’. Awesome (especially if you read Serbian).
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MagCloud
Self-publishing, publish-on-demand magazines. Send a PDF, and they handle printing, delivery, subscriptions, etc. Seems such an obvious idea now Derek Powazek and co have done this. (via Daring Fireball)
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Condé Nast set for a flurry of launches - Brand Republic News - Brand Republic
Apparently planning a UK edition of ‘Wired’. Hahahahaha Boohoohoohoo. (via Haddock)
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Stephanie Merritt: Small is beautiful - the best new journals | Review | The Observer
Literary journals. (via MeFi)
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Zzap Zzuperstore
Complete scanned versions of every issue of Crash!, Zzap! 64, C&VG, etc, etc. I bought Crash! and Sinclair User. Brilliant. I feel 13 again. (via Haddock)
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PrintFetish
Weblog about magazines, zines, small press books, etc.
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GOOD Magazine | Goodmagazine - The 51 Best* Magazines Ever
Ones I liked, or wish I’d read: Wired (‘93-‘98), Colors, Might, The Face (1980s), Ray Gun (‘92-‘96).
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BackHome Magazine
Started by people who left ‘Mother Earth News’ years ago.
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Ugandan Discussions: The Covers of Private Eye
Since 1961, with cover stars indexed.
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Access Magazine
“Official magazine of the University of California Transportation Center” available for download twice yearly.
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OZtrading.net - The OZ magazine trading site - Library of Issues
Archive of scanned Oz magazines.
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New AlterNet design
Lovely and clean. Uses tables, but I can’t say I blame them.
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Putting 40,000 Readers, One by One, on a Cover by David Carr (NYT, Registration required)
A magazine will customise the covers of its subscribers’ copies with a satellite photo of their individual homes.