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Originally posted by patternBoy:


Who knows? Maybe you too could become a filthy rich web celeb riding on the coattails of the enormous traffic to come when the actual work of creativity comes out.

I have an amazing lack of talent and initiative, but I'm totally into riding coattails.

So, uh, what is this 'digital magazine' thing anyways? It doesn't have the 'pick up and read anywhere' practicality of a print magazine. It won't have the daily relevance of a newspaper. It needs to be more than just a random collection of blog entries in order to be coherent. So what is it exactly?

One idea is that it could be a series of essays that share a unifying theme. One of my favourite magazines was "Forbes ASAP's Big Issue IV: The Great Convergence" (Oct. 1999)". Forbes ASAP's Big Issue was an "annual magazine of literary essays from leading writers and thinkers tackling a single, large theme". (The 2000 issue which tackles the question 'what is true?' is here)

So, I was thinking that since this thing is called 'Node magazine' and is a figment of WG's imagination, perhaps for the inagural issue we could use nodal points (past, present and future) as a unifying theme for essays. The scope would be huge (the big bang to the singularity), allowing a lot of room for pretentious wallowing interesting stuff. And the idea of an annual magazine is kind of appealing too. What do you think?

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Originally posted by DIT:
So, uh, what is this 'digital magazine' thing anyways?

'digital magazine' is how 20th century print designers and art directors refer to what we now call 'websites'

I think this thread would have more life if it were titled Nude Magazine online.

I am applying for the position of "stuff correspondant." I see that you either forgot to mention that one or have very slyly deleted it after typing it out, but no big. I expect it pays doubly well than sports correspondant, and at least half as well as sitting around with a thumb up my ass. Mea culpa.


POPE DISCOVERS BUICK; critics are baffled
17MAR2007 Saint Petersburg, Florida

In an alarming series of events early Saturday, Pope Benedict XVI found his Buick hours before even losing it.

What started out as a seemingly normal morning quickly began to spiral into his control, Vatican officials told reporters. The '93 Skylark, whose parking position often alludes its 79-year-old owner, was exactly where he had left it the evening before. The Pope apparently found his way back by discovering a series of empty bottles of that Ol' Janx Spirit. A glass dome and fourteen tubes of Gorilla Glue were found nearby.

"Well, it, it's really something." remarked a thunderstruck Commandant Mäder.

Skeptics of Ratzinger's story have erroneously reported that the bottles were placed there by magical demons who were trying to fool the poor old guy into feeling bad about getting crunk. No hard feelings, Damascus.

During an exclusive interview with His Holiness, reporters were only able to pick up barely audible mumblings about the previous night (transcripts still in editing room) but the journey apparently "kicked righteous ass." This is in contrast to what happened earlier that day, which "totally sucked."

Here's to the Pope getting some peace of mind. He probably needed it.

- Chalibaeus Decanus
March 17, 2007

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Originally posted by shake:
I think this thread would have more life if it were titled Nude Magazine online.

That was how I [mis]read it.

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'digital magazine' is how 20th century print designers and art directors refer to what we now call 'websites'

DataMojo, you really hit my knob on that one, hah! I've been reading this thread with interest, since I had a 'webazine' going for a year or so. That was for a Virtual World, you know, back when we actually thought that that could fly. And it flew for a while (a year is a looong time in cyyyyberspace), but reality online are really about patterns thesedays. If something online are 'hype' for more than a week, then you've hit the jackpot, right? In the end of the day: what we do here (in this web-board) are the ultimate magazine. It's fast, hip and all cyber. Snapshots of toilets around the world in one corner, book-reviews in another, flame-wars somewhere else...and we are both readers and contributors. In a magazine you simple build a barrier between those two parts, and for what? Profit? To put in a CV when you're looking for a real job? Dunno...I'm asking, since I think it's great that someone have the guts to stand up and try it, but I never jump on a bandwagon unless I know where it's going, and why. Ya./Z

Can I be political correspondent? 5 in the morning is boring…


Goldwater had promised to run in 1964. However he was facing one of the most popular Republicans in the country, a man with an immense personal fortune, and the New York political base behind him not to mention his status as the front-runner: Nelson Rockefeller, the Governor of New York.

Goldwater was the man who embodied the conservative and business wing of the Republican Party—the logical continuance of Taft. Rockefeller was the epitome of the citizen wing—the people who split with Theodore Roosevelt and formed the Progressive Party all those years ago.

The citizen wing comes to the Republican Party only in presidential election years and in-between the conservative wing runs the party. In 1960 Rockefeller and the citizen wing had forced a civil rights platform on Nixon, which was one of the major reasons Nixon lost the election. This was, to say the least, only the latest series of resentments the conservatives had had to endure from the Eastern Liberals.

The establishment of the Republican Party had always resented the citizen wing coming in every 4 years, they had always grimaced and compromised—with Eisenhower and Nixon, with platform after platform but this year they wouldn't.

Goldwater had enough personnel power and enough friends to prevent a compromise this time barring some certain candidate (Lodge, who left it too late). Rockefeller was far too liberal to be that certain candidate. Furthermore Rockefeller too could carry a whole wing of the party with him.

The other candidates seemed to matter at various times; Lodge in New Hampshire but he left it too late and Oregon finished him, Scranton was too liberal without Rockefeller's appeal and waited for a draft, Nixon too wanted a draft but he wasn't about to get one and the rest of the field was nothing.

It was to be Goldwater and Rockefeller.

Goldwater was a conservative, a man who Democrats wouldn't vote for, a man who couldn't win the general election and everybody knew it. Yet. Republican's liked Goldwater and they were sick of pandering to the Eastern Liberal's and the 'progressives' who showed up once every four years and then wandered off to leave the hard business of running the party to the establishment.

Rockefeller, on the other hand, was liberal as you could be in the Republican Party spending more money in New York then just about anybody, anywhere in the United States. Yet. He could win the general. Or, rather, he had a shot at winning the general election against Johnson who was considered unbeatable and nobody else did. Not Nixon. Not Lodge. And certainly not Goldwater.

By the night of the Oregon primary it was Rockefeller's last chance. If Lodge won he was finished. Even pollsters said Lodge was going to win. Rockefeller knew it and he wore himself to the bone campaigning across the entire state. Which he had to himself, everybody else in the race elsewhere.

Just three minutes into the TV broadcast Oregon was called for Rockefeller.

It was to be that most quintessential of American battles. High Noon in the state of California, Rockefeller versus Goldwater with pistols at 20 paces and the winner, the survivor, gets all the marbles…