Some Interesting Mags on the 'Net

By Chris Marvin Editor in Chief

here is a lot competition between the different magazines on the web aimed at holding the 20 through 45 year old age group right now, it seems. I guess it is not shocking that all the content on the www is aimed at one age group(which I fall into at the young end, mind you)-- we probably make up about oh, 99% of the users. So the magazines. They are all over the place, from pop culture to anti-culture, from food to industry, and everything in between.

If I were to do a web search on, say zine I might get a response like this:

Word count: zine: 120908

Not that all of these hits are really content, or magazines at all, though.

I am always interested in seeing what most of the competition has to offer. There are a few mags on the web that really catch the eye. The bulk is crap, of course, like the rest of the web. Give Johnny a Pentium and his thoughts will flow? You really think that he is going to add the level of political or social discourse? You're correct, he won't. He will cruise over to dejanews to view this week's newest and best in bondage shots.

That is why I am so impressed with the fact that there are magazines out there at all. From the brainless slime of those who dwell on the 'net, comes something redeeming. Whether it be the acid tongue of a sly satiricist, as in Suck, or the candy coated, sickly sweet ravings of a Slate or Wired, there is something not all bad going on. Even as the major players(like NYTimes and Washington Post) threaten to go offline and begin charging, there is still hundreds of megs of interesting content on the web. I thank my stars and garters for that whenever I can't sleep.

The Internet: (n.) The best waste of time yet. ;)