More 'Zines -- part of the High-Tech Reader

More 'Zines
part of the High-Tech Reader

by Mathew
Ingram

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RAGEBOY RULES
"Ffallacies of irrelevant conclusion, reductios ad absurdum, vicious circles and... grandiloquent screeds," check out Entropy Gradient Reversals from Christopher Locke
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TWEAK THIS
Like many oddball cultural commentary sites, Tweak is kind of hard to describe
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THE FRAY
One of the premier sites that specializes in "personal" literature, the fray has an ever-changing series of personal remembrances organized into a number of categories, including "criminal," "hope," "work" and "drugs." Another good personal narrative site is afterdinner.
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ONLINE DIARIES
One of the first to start the online diary theme was Magdalena Donea or "Maggy", whose site is called moments.
Other interesting 'zines include Babel, a "multilingual, multicultural journal of culture." Alex has a very nice literary site called Themonster.net -- which just happens to be part of a site featuring "personal narrative" called Afterdinner. Another good literary site is called george jr., and Linda Richards of Smartypants Studios has a nice literary 'zine called January Magazine, with great reviews and interviews with authors. Longtime Internet commentator Robert Seidman has a sporadic 'zine/newsletter called Online Insider that shows a healthy skepticism about Web-related issues, while Nethype is a good behind-the-scenes Net 'zine. If you have any suggestions, comments or additions to make, please e-mail me.

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If you want global news, check out WorldNetDaily.Web Review, which died and then was revived as a design-related mag, and another tech-culture one called The Industry Standard. One called Mindjack has commentary on technology and pop culture -- and Slashdot is high geek and proud of it. If you're looking for a laugh or too, you could do worse than to go to Tabloid 'O The Day -- every time you reload the page it compiles clips and headlines into a new kind of melange-a-tabloid. Other 'zines worth a look include The Daily Muse, and Firehorse -- a very strange 'zine from Australia that includes a column written all in capitals by an underground band called Teknomad -- as well as one called transmit, and another called Captivated. A good feminist-oriented grrrls' site is Brillo, and an interesting 'zine for the "underemployed intellectual" is brow.
Speaking of brows, Heatwave is lowbrow -- they specialize in hardboiled fiction, hillbilly music and smut. the limit is a well-designed site that focuses on art and photography, while Popshack is more oriented towards pop culture. smug is a 'zine with some interesting sections, including "bumping uglies" and "mystery date," and The Finger is a Suck-style commentary on all kinds of stuff. Also worth a look are Razor, and for the true news junkie there's News Trolls -- which includes a column by noted Web guru Jon Katz, formerly of Hotwired. Meanwhile, Obscure Publications has a series of long feature articles about a variety of (often bizarre) subjects, and WebJournalist is a personal site set up by Bob James, devoted to his travels in Asia and other subjects. Gregory Alkaitis-Carafelli has a site with the amusing domain name So.anyway.org, which features his writing and links to various things of note. Someone else who grabbed a great domain name for a great idea is Derek Powazek -- the creator of the online literary site fray -- who also runs Kvetch, an interactive exercise in bitching and whining about various things.
Other interesting 'zine-style personal sites include 3 AM (named for F. Scott Fitzgerald's comment about the "long dark night of the soul"), the tech-oriented Jaundiced Eye, Ben Brown's bitchy and funny Flabjab, and the techy reprint site Rewired. A site called Regarding is -- somewhat oddly, given the title -- devoted primarily to audio clips of musings on a particular word, while Jason Kottke's 0sil8 (pronounced "oscillate") is devoted to whatever he's currently thinking about. Peterme is a magazine-style site devoted to Peter Meholtz and his exploits, while Impression is a 'zine devoted to popular culture and media and Anthology is a well-designed 'zine devoted to Alex. Another couple of sites with great domain names are So There, which is more or less confessional, and Fucker.com belongs to the very strange Betty Ray. John Halcyon Styn has a site he calls prehensile -- with an opening graphic that's a great, somewhat twisted takeoff on the three little characters on the Kellogg's Rice Krispies box. He also runs another personal site called Cocky Bastard.

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