Dislike:
Too many advertisements. (Actually, any, but that's not realistic.)
As William Park observed, this is the way these "rags" make money, so that their _real_ purpose is to have ads, and a bit of writing, as filler, to both fill space not sold, as well as to provide an extra reason for readers to pick it up and browse through. If you look carefully at most of the "computer monthlies," you will also notice that the 'articles' are thinly veiled ads to encourage people to buy the newest interesting products. If the desire is to recreate something akin to TCJ (The Computer Journal) <http://www.hytherion.com/tcj/>, a mostly-CP/M journal, MicroCornucopia (a really neat journal), or The Perl Journal, keep in mind, first, that these are all defunct. Remember also that they were all quite expensive because they had minimal advertising. I am unconvinced that this can "work," commercially, now, because it is so much easier to do Internet-based publishing that does not need to have geographic ties. -- wm(X,Y):-write(X),write('@'),write(Y). wm('cbbrowne','cbbrowne.com'). http://cbbrowne.com/info/lsf.html Rules of the Evil Overlord #187. "I will not hold lavish banquets in the middle of a famine. The good PR among the guests doesn't make up for the bad PR among the masses." <http://www.eviloverlord.com/> -- The Toronto Linux Users Group. Meetings: http://tlug.ss.org TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://tlug.ss.org/subscribe.shtml
Just wanted to say thanks for all the feedback I've got so far. I was a bit surprised how many people responded :) I think we're ready to start talking about a what it's going to look like and who wants to do what. To keep discussions from filling up the TLUG list, I've started up an open yahoo group at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/yyztech/ where we can hash out ideas. Naturally this is open to anyone who wants to drop in. Based on what people have said, I've come up with a list of things that the new newspaper should have. This can be considered a starting point, it's by no means fixed. --- Proposed Sections --- Letters, Editorial, Cartoon page Geek Gadgets (news on what's new in phones, toys, maybe the odd music reviews, Linux games) Magazine roundup (what other Linux magazines are covering) Free User-group announcements (guest speakers, upcoming events, new groups) Reviews (books, software) 2-3 general articles Monthly Poll (results taken from a poll done on the web site) Fave-Links (favourite links submitted to website by visitors) Weird facts (statistics, quotes, etc.) Free user group listings (group, website, ) Buy/sell classifieds with web listing as well Website: www.yyztech.ca already registered, website coming soon Only Selected articles will be online, but a full table of contents will be available (see: http://www.maisonneuve.org/ for an example) classifieds (mirror print edition) Perhaps an online Linux-skills database? Distribution: Colleges, universities, private tech schools, coffee shops, computer shops user-group subscription rate (user group gets 10-20 copies sent to one address) Individual subscription rate While I'm sure most of us are getting into holiday mode soon, lets talk about this some more so we can hit the round running in January, Zoltan YYZtech group: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/yyztech/ -- The Toronto Linux Users Group. Meetings: http://tlug.ss.org TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://tlug.ss.org/subscribe.shtml
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