layout: post title: "K. Scott Allen: Newsgroups, Blogs, and Magazines" created: 1077127800 categories:

• Personal Publishing

I was talking to Kevin last night and got him all excited about <acronym title="Really Simple Syndication">RSS</acronym> and reading blogs and other websites using an aggregator. He still reads newsgroups a lot, so this article is perfect for explaining some of the differences:

Blogs gives people a place to “push

left-tech magazines§

Magazines that critical evaluate current technology / propose better alternatives. That I like to read, and eventually would like to get something published in…

• [[Branch]]
• [[Compost]]
• [[Logic]]
• [[The Reboot]]

Branch§

• Repairing Our Relationship with Technology - Branch: ~800 words
  • Author: founder of charity, written plenty other blog posts
• One Vision, One World. Whose World Then? - Branch: ~2000 words
  • Authors: indigenous leader, lawyer; PhD candidate
• #Tech4Bad: When Do We Say No? - Branch: ~2000 words
  • Authors: ?

Average maybe around 1500?

Contributions: Request for Contributions - Branch

Logic§

• [[How to Make a Pencil]]: ~4000/5000 words.
  • Author: university researcher, writer of a book
• Specter in the Machine: ~3000 words
  • Author: written for The Baffler, Dissnet, The Nation, etc
• [[Informatics of the Oppressed]]: ~5000 words
  • Author: PhD candidate in Science, Technology, and Society at MIT
• Agile and the Long Crisis of Software: ~5500 words
  • Author: assistant professor in information studies and digital humanities

Rough average of 4000 words.

Compost§

No issue yet in 2022.

• COMPOST Issue 02: Uncivilizing Digital Territories by Luandro: ~4000 words
  • Author: technologist, forester, and admirer of originary cultures.
• [[Seeding the Wild]]: ~2500 words
  • Authors: members of a think and do cooperative
• COMPOST Issue 01: The Salt of the Cosmos by Tal Milovina : ~3500 words
  • Author: editor of online magazine, other articles published elsewhere

Average maybe around 3000?

The Reboot§

Not very active in 2022.