Wow I'll definitely be reading it. Thanks! On Sat, Dec 19, 2020 at 10:17:46AM +0000, littlejohn at SDF.ORG wrote: > Dear Gemini fans, > > It is well-established that, in 2020, a technology cannot be said to > be "for hipsters" unless someone is using it to run an e-zine. Since I > don't know of anyone who does that with Gemini, and I do not wish to > Hacker News to be disappointed with us, I took it upon myself to run > an e-zine on Gemini. > > I am therefore writing to tell you about Smog: the Saturday MOrning > Gemzine. Smog is an independent, non-commercial, tech-focused but > non-tech-curious zine that seeks to encourage its readers to share > their ideas, to make new things and tinker with old ones, and to > challenge the publishing culture that's currently prevalent on the > WWW. It is likely to be labeled as either pointless or uselessly > contrarian by the Silicon Valley audience -- that was not deliberate > but we can't change it now, and Smog is too big to fail. > > Smog is published at: > > gemini://gemini.trans-neptunian.space/~smog/ > > and you can read its first issue here: > > gemini://gemini.trans-neptunian.space/~smog/20201219-SmogIssue1.gmi > > The first issue is deliberately slim and devoid of grand statements of > vision (or even tiny ones). Given the ephemeral nature of most > e-zines, I figured it's best to save those for the second issue. > > Smog is published weekly. News and announcements will be present in > every issue. Every fourth issue will be slightly bigger than the other > ones and will include more reviews, tutorials and stories. > > I will gladly publish letters from my readers, and will gladly publish > or re-publish any technical or non-technical articles that might be of > interest to the community. There are a few more details inside if > you're curious. > > As a cultural hunch/experiment of sorts, I'm also running ads in Smog, > with a few catches: ads are ran for free, they're text-only but I > encourage clever ASCII hacks, and calls for donations & co. will > always get priority. > > Please excuse any obvious hosting/server protocol compliance > problems. They will be remedied swiftly as soon as someone lets me > know about them -- if there are any, it's only because yours truly has > been lurking Gemini space for about an year and a half now but hasn't > *actually* tried hosting anything on Gemini before! > > Thank you very much for your attention, and fingers crossed that the > second issue of Smog will have more than one reader even without me > spamming this list! > > -- > Little John <littlejohn at sdf.org> > Find me on Gemini: gemini://gemini.trans-neptunian.space/~littlejohn/ > Via the SDF Public Access UNIX System - https://sdf.org -- Joseph Graham; a tech-rights advocate from England. My PGP key: 0x8cd7227da467d3ed404f6eefdb590f739e5ac458 I have three blogs: - my blog about the ethics of technology: http://www.technologicallyadvancedhuman.uk - my blog about computing and electronics: http://www.naughtycomputer.uk/ - my blog about scooters and cafe reviews: http://cafereview.xylon.me.uk I write software: https://www.suckmore.uk/ I run a public Taskenizer installation: https://taskenizer.xylon.me.uk
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