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• Thanks!

  If your list was incomplete, now there are many people who have helped to finish it. This discussion is a convenient way for me to research new magazines - to know for sure what I don't want. So thank you!! From your list I was intrigued by "New York Times Magazine," which I might check out. From the responses, I'm interested in "Gastronomica" and "ZYZZYVA." I would like to recommend "Seed" magazine, which focuses on 'science as culture.' My list of Magazines to order (once I find about $400 on the ground) is: Seed, the Believer, Under the Radar and Vice. "Resonance" magazine recently stopped printing, and it made me wonder about the life of a magazine captain. What kind of person goes into debt putting out an obscure, if totally right-on little perspective printed. Noble Napoleons? I can relate... chocolate and wine, ya'll
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  • Date: May 14 2008
  • Posted by Sparrow

• GroundReport's on it

  GroundReport.com is a citizen journalism platform devoted to democratizing the news-- we agree with Alissa and are pursuing this strategy. And we invite all you GOOD people to do the same by publishing your stories to the worldon GroundReport.com.
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  • Date: Apr 28 2008
  • Posted by GroundReport

• I'd buy BBCNews.com

  Seems like a good opportunity to give BBCNews.com a well deserved shout out. I am a daily reader and fully aware that the news is a commodity that is bought and sold...the BBC feels like they are attempting to stay closer to objective journalism. An interesting comparison is to see what CNN.com is saying about the same story. But then I might just like what the BBC is selling more than CNN
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  • Date: Apr 21 2008
  • Posted by Davian

• Dear Black Type

  Surely the glory days of The Face were the Acid House years? Also, Smash Hits really ought to be here if any British magazine is. It summed up so many things so well, and unlike many magazines aimed at teenagers never patronised the audience or their tastes.
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  • Date: Apr 20 2008
  • Posted by mippy

• channels of resistance

  word. And no, we absolutely should not acquiesce to the commodification of public space - that's what 'spatial resistance' is all about (whether the result is any net social gain is a different debate). I'm all for formal channels of challenging this issue as well - see this interesting post from LA Weekly for example - although 'city/citizen v. corporation' is war with many battles not regularly lost by the latter. And re: China, clearly 'resistance' does not always equal something positive. sometimes its very sad and bloody and sometimes the violence of resistance is no better or worse than what it is trying to resist. And I suppose some would argue that graffiti does more violence to someone's personal property than a digital billboard does to our collective eyes and minds. But I'm not sure I buy that one is less violent or more ok just because it has been paid for.
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  • Date: Apr 05 2008
  • Posted by Neighborhoodist

• Very cool

  A pamphlet full of good information beats the hell out of some $10 blogger cramming "10 Ways to Rob Time From Your Day With Useless How-To Crap" and "Top Ten Reasons Why My Opinion Matters to You" down my throat. Power to the printing press, Johann Gutenburg!
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  • Date: Apr 11 2008
  • Posted by cicic

• Title

  Perhaps by now, as most people know fashion photographs are manipulated to the point of the model being a mere inspiration for the eventual image, we no longer have to classify this as "unnatural". The next step in this process is a fully computer generated "photograph", which interestingly enough seems not at all subject to the same criticisms that this type of image manipulation receives right now, simply because the "source person" was never born. Also think about make-up effects and image manipulation in movies... Gollum...CG actors in games...etc.
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  • Date: Apr 09 2008
  • Posted by superfamous

• Tyra Post

  It's never good when your blog post resemble Tyra Banks Show "hot and completely irrelevant" topics. How about an option for i don't give a damn.
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  • Date: Apr 09 2008
  • Posted by acc

• Invest in Media

  I really liked this article and I whole heartedly agree with the sentiment. I used to work for an online encyclopedia (not the free one everyone knows of, hence the used to work for...) and we switched from using AP wire feeds to one based in Korea to cut costs. It was very strange to see headlines poping up on breaking news at the New York Times and BBC and be told to wait for the story to be reported on in South Korea so we could spend the least amount of time on adapting the story before posting it on our site. When we did get the wire story it was often filled with sentences like "according to the New York Times," or "it was reported by the BBC" so it felt silly waiting for someone elses' report on the same article I read hours ago, but I knew they were getting the report cheaper from Korea. Any way, I agree that a lot of the news that the average American sees on TV or hears about on the radio is such a tiny fraction of what is being covered by international media groups. Many U.S. media companies don't seem to think we'll pay to find out about other parts of the world. It's not that they don't thnk we can handle too much more information. If so they wouldn't run the ticker headlines, ball game scores and stock report during an exclusive interview with whoever is big at the moment.
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  • Date: Apr 09 2008
  • Posted by kugelgirl

• a new twist

  Uh oh... what if opposing a digital billboards is simultaneously endangering the chance for a much-needed new park? This LAT article describes the ironic dilemma of a proposal for a massive new digital billboard that downtown, partial revenues from which would go towards building a new wetlands preserve in park-poor South LA! pretty crafty on somebody's part. also, yeah orion's a badass.
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  • Date: Apr 08 2008
  • Posted by Neighborhoodist