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 | | Topic: | New diskmag, should I bother? | | | Well first of all hi to all past friends of mine - 5 years since I left the scene and somehow it is good to be back after all this time.
Though, I've been developing a diskmag engine, well designed, fast and effective text processing and some decent features for "a mag to go" - but then tonight after reading the "ressurection of Grapevine" it struck me - why bother? Why release a diskmag when most of the people use the web for information purposes?
Online chat forums like this place is the information channel number one for most people. Why create and spend time on developing a static product when the people out there want dymanic and full duplex information float? Second of all - do people really spend any time on the scene now such as during the glorious 1990s?
I guess what I really am asking for is the answer of is the scene really alive, or do we tend to hold on to that little amount of the old school spirit when Razor 1911's Voyage was top notch and Grapevine by LSD was up to number 13? Is it room for new productions on the diskmag scene, or should I, or better said we, simply not bother at all? | | |
| answering the scene is still alive question, yes, it is very well still alive.
but unless you got really commited and saviant people to back you up writting articles worth the download, dont bother. sceners can use google aswell, so your readers nowdays demand more contents out of a diskmag than what you were required to deliver 5 years ago. things that you can't read online. and most of the remaining sceners (ie, your writers) dont really know (or see it beeing worth the bother) to provide such content on a diskmag format anymore.
you need a purpose for a new mag, just starting a new one and see how it goes will get you nowhere, you need to know what you want to deliver (that isnt online) and how you're gonna do it in a way that attracts people (half a dozen partyreports and interviews might be exclusive but if the writters suck, people still wont wanna read them through), and take care of the business yourself if you can't find anyone to delegate it to.
as long as there are releases coming out and parties happening there will always be the need to write and read about it. remember that a website is something you check now and again for news, a diskmag is something that captures a timezone of the scene and how the editors perceived it at the time. there are differences, and things you can do on diskmags that websites, no matter what team of collaborator they got, will never quite reach.
what im saying is, if you got the balls and connections, go for it, new diskmags are always cool. but if you're gonna whine and wimp out at the first dozen setbacks (and there are more in 2005 than in 2000) then dont bother. :) | | |
| Thanks for your feedback - you did point out a few important issues that have to be considered.
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