Zines
Wordle Tag Cloud of CCCC09 talk
“What’s in a Zine? A Public Ancestry of Blogs”:
some random stuff akin to notes to you the reader
• I went to New York City last weekend, as I mentioned in my previous post. State College leaves me unfulfilled in so many ways, but mostly it has to do with the lack of people, diversity, good food, interesting architecture, the carnival — you know, city life. The trip was rejuvenating in ways I couldn’t [...]
notes from the interblags
• Ira Socol calls for 2009 to be the year of universal access
• New York Magazine has a brief story on gay-related zines out of New York. Towleroad includes links to various zines. I might have to make a trip to NYC sometime soon to visit Printed Matter.
• Aaron Bady at The Valve has an [...]
zines v. the internet
Thanks to my friend Eric for sending me this link. Rita Flórez at Good Magazine has an article title “Why Zines Won’t Die”, which I found pretty interesting, and relates to my thesis (which, alas, is done, but the research continues!). The final paragraphs of Flórez’s article:
There’s also the “Can I read it on the [...]
blog as zine
In the third chapter of my thesis I argued that it was productive to view the zine (independently produced magazine) as a genealogical ancestor of the blog. For me, I was a zinester years before I was a blogger, and I found quite a few connections between zines and blogs. I’ve known for a [...]
