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Make Magazine Subscription Now Available
Jac_no_k writes "O'Reilly's Make magazine is now taking subscription orders. They have an offer for one bonus 'mook' by using the offer code 'M5ZXML'. Their description: 'MAKE is a new hybrid magazine/book ("mook") published quarterly by O'Reilly. MAKE brings the do-it-yourself mindset to all the technology in your life. MAKE is loaded with exciting projects that help you make the most of your technology at home and away from home. It follows in line with the Hacks books and Hardware Hacking Projects, but it takes a highly visual and personal approach.'" If the quality of the magazine is the same as their technical books, this should be a worthwhile subscription.
Yes and No.
Example, I no longer subscribe to any american magazines, they all have been dumbed down to the lowest common denominator so they become worthless for someone looking for technical information.. so I replace them with European magazines in English format.
Want an Example?
linux journal I replaced with Linux format.. I regained the technical aspect that LJ had back in the 90's. I have done the same with web development magazines and programming magazines (ok, dobbs is still useful)
unfortunately in the US magazine sucess are measured in net profits, and making a magazine that is 100% useless to the technical crowd is more profitable than making a magazine that is pretty dumbed down.
I have tried online "electronic" subscriptions, but find them a PITA. I can not save issues in a format that would be searchable (Ok PDF can be searchable if unencrypted) and still useable by myself in 10 years. Yes I have issues of Circuit Cellar that are over 10 years old, and yes they are very useful.
until they fix all that is wrong with e-texts and eliminate the paranoia that if someone has an unencrypted version of an issue than the world will be destroyed online magazines will continue to fail, and print magazines will continue to be accepted.
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
Tell me, how has the New Yorker been significantly "dumbed down" from the version of the New Yorker produced in the 90s? Please cite specific articles. Thank you.
THIS ACCOUNT IS OFFICIALLY RETIRED/RETARDED.
Not sure we need another dumb-sounding buzzword for something that has been around for more than 90 years. "Afred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, "Weird Tales", "Astounding"...all of those old anthology magazines so little different from anthology books. Especially the issues with a single novella.
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
Hmmm.. Slashdotting doesn't usually cause an instant 404.
I smell idiocy.
Never attribute to malice that which can be explained by mere idiocy.
If the Mook is cool enough with lots of ideas, then a reader with an adequate IQ should be able to adapt ideas given to applications he wants to do.
i.e. there is a mention about kite-photography, what if you have a RC plane and dont want to build a kite? is it useless information now? no, it's an idea and you adapt it to your plane.
come on, have some spunk.
Before you think different, think.
Not to sound like a dimwitted, capitalist, American pig or anything, but exactly what are magazines' successes based on in Europe?