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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
YES!! ??????? Awesome initiative! I love zines! Cheers ew0k Sent from my Nintendo Entertainment System
Dear littlejohn, > gemini://gemini.trans-neptunian.space/~smog/20201219-SmogIssue1.gmi Hilarious! Linux eh, Gemini Weekly News, sort of? :) Keep going! Cheers, Erich -- Keep it simple!
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
On Sat Dec 19, 2020 at 11:17 AM CET, wrote: > 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 This promises to be a lot of fun! Best of luck with keeping it up and running and thanks for your contribution to the community. Cheers, Solderpunk
> On Dec 19, 2020, at 11:17, littlejohn at sdf.org wrote: > > Smog is published at: > > gemini://gemini.trans-neptunian.space/~smog/ > subscribed. thanks. great start.
Great work! I look forward to reading more issues going forward. ~Gary -- GPG Key ID: 7BC158ED Use `gpg --search-keys lambdatronic' to find me Protect yourself from surveillance: https://emailselfdefense.fsf.org ======================================================================= () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments Why is HTML email a security nightmare? See https://useplaintext.email/ Please avoid sending me MS-Office attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
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