Episode #4: We need magazines!
5 August 06
An insight on the need for home grown magazines in the Middle East.
Designers, Artists, and in general technologists need better magazines that come form the region for the region. Juniors and new entrants need better support and encouragement. Yea, we are deeply in need for real magazines that actual techies write in it, not just a bunch of editors who pickup stories from other sources. We need real web techies to talk about the web, real designers showcasing and highliting an individual’s work and judge. No editors, please.
Tune in and listen to the show. Please leave your feedback which is a key point about tech/art publishings in the Middle Eeast.
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Rida Al Barazi 1312 days ago
Yes we are really in need…
One interesting thing I’ve been reading and hearing about lately is the self publishing, mainly it is for books and technical books specifically. Well I saw few magazines out there (I mean USA and Europe but not yet locally) being published online in PDF or any soft-copy formats, they started like this and then they could grow it better. I think we should start doing it; not only because I believe we “can” but also because I don’t trust that the local publishing firms “care” if they “can” in the first place.
Maybe we should encourage the experts to write, and start something up, there are many tools out there that can really help us. We can use such a tool like print-on-demand and stuff like that.. let’s brainstorm this here and see what can be done about it.
If you found such an interesting magazine available online in soft-copy format and/or hard copy format, would you be interested in buying it? What do you expect to see in it?