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Ask Slashdot: What Good Print Media Is Left?
guises writes: "A recent story discussing the cover of Byte Magazine reminded me of just how much we've lost with the death of print media. The Internet isn't what took down Byte, but a lot of other really excellent publications have fallen by the wayside as a result of the shift away from the printed page. We're not quite there yet, though. There seem to still be some holdouts, so I'm asking Slashdot: what magazines (or zines, or newsletters, or newspapers) are still hanging around that are worth subscribing to?"
The Economist. Still worth reading.
funnytimes.com
All I need.
Very good photography, good enough writing.
Good print media?
Really. Local newspaper provides enough to wrap up stuff to ship, and a few sheets to use to light charcoal.
Other than that, who cares?
Don't take life too seriously; it isn't permanent.
They haven't started making digital toilet paper yet.
Nowhere else will you find detailed reporting regarding events and issues that may actually impact your life. Some have said that social media will kill local newspapers but I find that real news is still better covered by a reporter than by hearsay on my Facebook wall. Local reporters work hard to produce a paper every day (or every week, depending on your community), the least we can do is subscribe to their publication to help foot the bill of good reporting.
http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/ is still putting out amazing topic-oriented journals printed on comfortable paper. Their current issue is about Revolutions and their previous issue was Comedy. The subscription cost is worth every penny.
I like my tech magazines and news digital. I like my Muscle & Fitness and Popular Science in print. It's personal preference really.
Lots of good stuff. Byte could have morphed itself into this magazine.
the growth in cynicism and rebellion has not been without cause
You won't get the US centric perspective that you get from the economist.
http://www.paecon.net/
P0RN is will always be a good niche for certain type of clientele. Leaves no electronic trace also, does not require electricity and information in such type of magazines will rarely result in additional search in internets.
The Guardian is always worth a read.
TFA has it all wrong from the start.
The problem is, from a cybernetic perspective, the internet is just words, pictures and video at the presentation layer...
**its not inherently different** The **channel** for the information is different, but it's the same type of information
both a print & digital news requires a *reporter* and *editor*
a blog can never be the "paper of record"...it has to be an institutional entity with accountability
yes, of course the transition to digital formats was **mismanaged** by the non-journalism side of most news operations, but that is because the businesspeople made the same mistake TFA makes...thinking a digital news story is somehow inherently different b/c the channel is different
Thank you Dave Raggett
Disclaimer: I've worked for 2 newspapers, and currently work for a media company (in the online division).
Why? Because a local newspaper is going to cover more relevant info, with more details, than numerous other mediums. It's an at-your-leisure consumption device, too.
I get the Sat. & Sun. local papers here. The Sat. for general weekend news, and the Sun. for big feature stories. Our paper frequently has some amazing local content; I recall a great 2 page spread on a local barbershop, and when one of the historic buildings burned down, they had almost daily coverage on the progress.
Plus, it's great for information on important city council stuff. Our city has been having the Great Trash Debate for some time, and now it's finally coming to a close (trying to figure out if trash pickup should be privatized, or if they should increase the cost of trash stickers to cover rising costs of maintenance for the trucks).
If you live in a major metro area, seek out the smaller hyper-local publications for your area.
"Better to be vulgar than non-existent" -Bev Henson
For .Net developers:
Code Magazine
MSDN Magazine
DNC Magazine(Not a print magazine, but it is a PDF that you can print out.)
General Computing:
CPU Magazine (not as good as it used to be, but still not bad)
Maximum PC
My local bookstore carries quite a few Linux magazines imported from Great Britain.
Coder's Stone: The programming language quick ref for iPad
The Economist, and
The Christian Science Monitor
If you read this everyday, you'll be amazed at how informed you will be.
Definitely still worth a subscription today, as it has been for decades. Last I checked, the cost of a print subscription was the same as an electronic subscription; difference is, my kids are more likely to be able to read the print version in a decade.
i just renewed my WIRED subscription. it's still dirt cheap, is entertaining to read, and has a nice cover. yeah, it's about half ads, but whatevs. if you're not used to blocking ads, you're some sort of time-traveler from... hmm, when did we not have advertising?
That's all we get in the mail. My wife got Mother Jones for a while.
I like Archaeology, it's pretty old school, even has classifieds in the back.
The last of the general interest genre.
A year ago almost to the day a very similar question was discussed here: http://ask.slashdot.org/story/... But I'll respond the same way I did there: Science News!
I subscribe to all three, they are fantastic. Music print media is still alive and strong in my opinion.
I write for and read a niche publication related to an obscure hobby of mine (related to model trains) and it actually sells very well and they still pay well for contributions. Mostly because the target audience is retirees who are of a generation that are used to and comfortable reading the printed page, and are happy to pay for it. Many of these people also supplement their subscription with online forum discussions, which has changed the nature of the magazine. The primary focus is on lengthy how-to articles that people would not normally compile for free and post online due to the time and effort involved, but are happy to put into print because they (and I) are being paid for it. Club announcements and updates and stuff are less needed thanks to online forums.
The one thing the magazine has not done is embraced a digital version and made their archives available digitally. One magazine that has done this to great effect is Model Railroader. Rather than collect stacks of back issues, you can now get the whole set online or on discs. One of the main issues depends on what the original contract with the writers looked like. If it did not have a 'and all future media' type clause, you would have to seek individual permission from each contributor to make the back issues available digitally. That has been one of the things holding back the particular magazine I write for. I myself am all in favor of making back issues available digitally. At the very least they could sell a digital edition beginning with new issues, with a new contract for the writers that includes it.
As far as mainstream periodicals, I occasionally like to pick up a Wall Street Journal or a New York Times when at an Airport, but 99.9% of my current news intake happens online these days. Financial Times of London is a good one, but again can be had online.
what I do read exclusively in printed form is books. I just like them, and I like to keep the best ones for re-reading later. Mine will be among the last generation to prefer this most likely.
Make and WIRED are my two current print subscriptions. (W.I.R.E.D. is fantastically infuriating to type)
"Long read" periodicals, which rely on research or expertise are still worth reading. The Economist and Foreign Policy are tow that stick out in my mind.
Local news may or may not be good. When national coverage dominates, you're basically getting a watered down version of last week's CNN. When local coverage dominates, at least you know there was was probably no other source for that information.
Industry Journals probably cover esoteric topic no one else will, so those count if your are actually interested in the esoteric topics.
Sadly, the niche, hobby magazine is pretty much dead. Big players release news and content directly to the web, and the best commentary is spread around blogs and web-zines. In fact, if the bulk of a magazine can be described as "news about X", or a "a community newsletter for Y", then it's dead.
What good media exists at all.
I say none.
---- Booth was a patriot ----
Easy enough to leaf through, colorful enough to justify printing. I keep one in the map pocket of my car for waiting at airports.
yep
Well they are available either print or digital but the Circuit Cellar / Elektor mags are good.
I would classify New Scientist (http://www.newscientist.com) as an excellent subscription magazine. The quality of the printed pictures and graphs is a great addition to nice science articles.
At least according to Rush.
Saveur
http://www.infowarsshop.com/-Infowars-Magazine_c_65.html
Unbelievable well-done mag.
"What good print media is left?"
Yes.
Print is a medium, so yes, it is still there. A newspaper, or magazine, it's a publication, not a medium.
You mean "What good print publications are left?"
Two magazines I still read in print are Lucky Peach and Archaeology.
Lucky Peach is a bit of insanity: Food travel, recipes, and steam of consciousness weirdness. Not cheap, and so far as I can tell, not all of it is available online.
Archaeology is great because you get to see real science actually in use -- unlike the pap most newspapers post, where the big words are all left out. It does have digital subscriptions, but because most of its articles are short, I'm happy to take this into the (ahem) powder room, where I really don't want to bring a screen.
Design for Use, not Construction!
As I get older, font sizes seem to get smaller (I'm already planning to get a new pair of glasses with a higher magnification on the progressive part). So I am very happy to use my tablet to read books and magazines because I can change the font size to something suitable for my inner Magoo.
Case in point: this year's spring issue of 2600 will be the last hard copy version I buy - I can hardly read the tiny type. Hereafter, I'll be buying the electronic version.
. . . the last time I checked, the Economist was not a US publication. Does the BBC World News have a, "US centric perspective," too?
You mean, like, the "Print" command in my programs?
Foreign Affairs, Harper's, NY Review of Books, Lapham's Quarterly, Washington Monthly, Democracy Journal, The Baffler, and many, many more!
I still take home books from our local small-town library (it's an original Carnegie Library) and read them in the bathtub and on the toilet and in bed and with The Simpsons on mute in our living room.
Doh.
High Times is still available in print, bro. What more do you need?
it pays for itself with the first delivery. saved $8 this week. but i blew it all of it on a flash drive.
The Jamaica Gleaner has excellent writing, actually employs professional reporters and fact checkers, and keeps an NPOV. The problem is, it only covers Jamaica.
Definitely National Geographic....Though I think the iOS digital edition is superior to the actual magazine. Higher res photos, updated content, and more engaging interactivity in the articles.
There's a digital edition too, but I presume that doesn't exclude the print edition, or your list will be empty.
I swore off of magazines simply due to prices. In 1985 I spent about $35. per week on magazines to satisfy my interests. Today I can go an entire year without buying a magazine. And as for books Project Gutenberg pretty much handles 100% of my book needs as well. Frankly i find that the use of English has declined in quality to the point that I rarely want to read books published after 1930 and the savings are substantial as well. I am aware that I could drive to a library but there again is the expense of driving compared to the ease of downloading literature on a PC.
QST, Nuts & Volts, Air & Space, maybe Circuit Cellar, although CC seems to be changing and not necessarily for the better.
Arizona Highways has, very sadly, fallen from a great height. I couldn't recommend it to new readers.
Circle the wagons and fire inward. Entropy increases without bounds.
Excellent, sometimes stunning, photography. Thought-provoking, impartial and balanced writing that prompts you to ask questions instead of telling you what to think.
The Economist
Harper's Magazine
The Atlantic
Lapham's Quarterly
Foreign Affairs
http://www.funnytimes.com/
They're sometimes too far radically left leaning but still lots of good stuff. At least they're funny (most of the) times. :)
Here is my current list:
Analog
The New Yorker
American Rifleman
Shotgun News
Practical Sailor
Cruising World
Good Old Boat
Shortest of these subscriptions ? 7 years
Longest ? 25 years (Analog)
Do they have websites ? Sure, but the print media is what I seriously read.
American Rifleman
The New Yorker website is quite good, but many of their articles can only be found in the real print magazine. They don't appear online. Plus, there's something *better* about the print version of the New Yorker with its classic very readable three column layout, its well designed typeface, inimitable New Yorker cartoons sprinkled about each issue, and even the tiny little illustrations that dot the articles and follow some clever theme in each issue. I know there's an iPad/Tablet version of the New Yorker (which I have never read) but the print magazine is still pretty nice. And I have not even mentioned the expensive ads.
It is a good read, calling it a bit hawkish might be lenient.
Check out the Fortean Times. "The world of strange phenomena"
Is 2600 Hacker's Quarterly still printing? Is it still worth getting?
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The Economist
Soldier of Fortune
See what's happening in the world.
Employee Of the Month - Cyberdyne Systems Corporation - September 1997
Harper's is well worth the subscription cost. Interesting articles, both short and long.
Science News, and the Economist are the two subscriptions I always renew. https://www.sciencenews.org/ https://www.economist.com/
One thing I've noticed is that any print magazine you may want can be downloaded from your favourite torrent site in just a few seconds. e.g. here are the latest issues of some popular ones... http://kickass.to/national-geo... http://kickass.to/the-economis... http://kickass.to/scientific-a... and of course http://kickass.to/penthouse-us... These are pdf files of only a few tens of megabytes and with hundreds sharing new issues hot off the press, they appear almost instantly on your computer. With this going on, who would buy a paper magazine? NB: these are page for page exact copies of the real print magazine so all the ads are intact. I even wonder if magazine companies are uploading their own publications to sell more ad space based on how many torrented mags are shared. If I was in the magazine business I would do this for sure.
They have good, in depth coverage of current topics. For example, they were one of the first mainstream publications to give accurate, factual coverage of the financial crisis while it was unfolding. Their contributors write well and their editors are top notch. There are usually one to two articles worth reading every month, each about five pages.
In Australia, "The Age", is an excellent centrist newspaper. My subscription is worth it!
A Great Mag on Linux
It's always got good stuff and lasts two visits to the throne room.
QST comes with membership in the ARRL but can also be found in some radio and electronics stores. QEX cost extra but is worth it if you are really deep into building your own stuff. Nuts and Volts is pretty good too. There are electronic versions of these three but I'll only pay for the printed version. If they go electronic only I won't renew my subscription.
It covers a wide variety of technical topics with quite a bit of depth. I get it by default by being an IEEE member. However, it seems that you can subscribe directly too.
Our local Syracuse paper was bought up by the same folks who are running the Times-Picayune into the ground. We used to have two daily papers (certainly don't need that now), but are left with a non-daily paper that is primarily AP wire and NY Times stories.
What I would like is to see Syracuse University buy the paper, use the press to print a daily for both the university and the city (keeping with the Town & Gown movement). The paper could be the Journalism department and also be an outlet for the business department. It seems a win-win. I wonder what the downsides are.
Yeah, I'm as old as my UID would suggest.
right, there are "differences" because, inherently, the channel is different, but it doesn't affect the content...journalism is still journalism
there are myriad benefits to using the internet in the newsroom...the CMS's they have are great...very streamlined.
digital media, as you point out, is different by scale...the resources it takes to print 100,000 newspapers is much different than the resources to make an internet article that 100,000 people see
there are other obvious differences, and they matter to things like ad sales
this in no way proves TFA right or lets newspaper owners off the hook for their bad business decisions
Thank you Dave Raggett
Right effect wrong cause...blame the business side. I saw this happen firsthand as a web editor in Colorado, but it's not "the internet" that broke...it was narrow-minded business people in the administration that refused to adapt their concept of ad revenue
It's a narrow, non-tech MBA-style business approach that did this
Thank you Dave Raggett
A little crazy is a good thing.
A skinny mag published by a travel agency that appeals to the AARP crowd. Nice, nonpolitical stories about middle America with wonderful, NatGeo level photography. Stories mostly reader submitted. Cheap, about $1.25 an issue.
Why is it that the ads in mags like Byte were a key part of the reason I bought the magazine -- but banners and online ads have become little more than annoyance and irritation?
The old print-media ads were informative and didn't slow down my reading in anyway so I guess they were excellent "secondary" content.
There's no way I'll patronize any site that uses full-page interstitial advertising -- yet the full-page ads in Byte and other printed mags were things I often read from start to finish.
Is it just me or have others had the same experience?
You know, the organisation that worked with Snowden to reveal government overreach to the world? The one whose journalists just won a Pulitzer?
The weekly edition is delivered worldwide. The condensed format is great for catching up on what's happening beyond the boundaries of Murdouche's empire..
This kinda sounds like an advertisement, but it's really not. It's just that print news media here in Australia ranges from mediocre to outright political propaganda. The Guardian is my lifeline on sanity in this environment.
Published "As We May Think" soon after WWII, today is "web first" and quite timely. Perhaps a bit fluffier than it once was, but still doesn't care what you think, but cares desperately that you do think.
davecb@spamcop.net
Agreed
Falcon Wolf
Should there be a Law?
And any other graphic novel/ comic book like thing out there. There's some flow to graphic novels that I've never really seen done well on a computer.
I think Photography magazines are still better in print that digital. What the picture looks like printed out is always different than what it looks like in a digital format.
I'd also suggest Mad Magazine. You just can't fold a tablet the same way you can the back page.
All of those are a pleasure to read.
I knew some people would call out the Economist, and I used to subscribe to it some years back - but unfortunately they dumbed it down quite a bit several years ago in a push to increase their subscription base... and it looks like they succeeded.
Le Monde Diplomatique has many international editions, including in english
I like that one and still get it delivered
Yup. Scientific American.
I don't respond to AC's.
Long live Byte. Goodbye, Byte, Circuit Cellar, Pournelle, and so many other characters. Long live Ars Technica, Wired, GigaOm, and dozens of other sites like NetworkWorld, InfoWorld, The Register, and so forth. Print will never come back. You won't feel it in your hands until your foldable smartphone makes this comfy some day in the future-- to do again.
I loved reading Byte! starting from the beginning. Reading what hardware and software hackers, who followed hacker ethics not the criminals called hackers in the press today, were doing was terrific. My two favorite columns were Steve Ciarcia's Circuit Cellar, which is now a compleat magazine of it's own, and Jerry Pournelle's Chaos Manor.
Falcon Wolf
Should there be a Law?
Harper’s (not to be confused with Harper’s Bazaar, which is an especially boring fashion magazine,) The Believer, and The Baffler all have good literary and art coverage as well as long-form lefty political journalism. The New Yorker is good too, and not as New York City centric as you might think, aside from the theater/music/event listings, but it’s weekly, so kinda expensive and easy to fall behind on. There’s some good stuff in Rolling Stone and Playboy from time to time but I wouldn’t keep either one on the coffee table where people could see them.
You won't get the US centric perspective that you get from the economist.
I am an American and only 2 American print magazines come as close as The Economist does to my pov. Those are Reason magazine and Liberty magazine.
Falcon Wolf
Should there be a Law?
The Economist has many short articles that make for awesome bathroom reading, plus longer in depth articles. The same with the New Scientist. Both are also weekly magazines so it is a non stop firehose of up to date information that doesn't involve, cyrus, the kardashians, or whats his bieber.
I once loved Scientific American but then they became as crappy and unrealistic as Popular Mechanics for a number of years, then they became more serious but way too much psychology 101 crap about the brain. It is Scientific American mind this Scientific american mind that. But that is just PopMechanics again about the brain. Brain Implants in 10 YEARS!!!! Brain mapped for 800th time in PET scanner! Brain simulated in even bigger computer! Basically these are cover story articles that might get 100 words in New Scientist.
I love The Week. It's a reasonably objective collection of the best news articles/opinions each week. Each Sunday, I sit down with a cup of coffee for a half hour and get a broad overview of what happened in the world that week, and what people said about it.
It's basically a printed new aggregator, showing only the most insightful and informative opinions (from all sides) each week -- the exact opposite of the Internet news I consume daily.
I remember when Byte was 600+ pages, and could break a nerd's arm when it was picked up.
American Rifleman is fairly entertaining for a bathroom read. I know you can (or at least as a life member, I can..) get one of other NRA mags instead of AR. I keep thinking the women's version might be interesting, at least as a sociological amusement, and perhaps something to leave at the Pediatrician's office to keep 'em guessing.
at least at one point in his life. Check the credits on 2112.
Remember "News for Nerds, Stuff that Matters"? Help make it a reality again! http://soylentnews.org
The London Review of Books
The New York Review of Books
Foreign Affairs
The Times Literary Supplement
When I was a lad of 19 and a college co-op at IBM, I discovered a wonderful periodical in the site library called "Science News." Have been a subscriber ever since (three decades). The quality of writing has not wavered.
Have also been a member of the Smithsonian for nearly as many years. As with SN, I read cover-to-cover. I'm not always immediately interested in the subject matter, but the level of writing always draws me in. Each article always teaches me something new.
And, by god, in either publication in 30 years, I think I have noticed only one typo. I know copy editing isn't glamorous, but it gives such enormous pleasure to read without stumbling over grammar or word-choice mistakes.
Both are well worth the subscription price.
The former because it's probably the best general news periodical around, even when you disagree with their (fully acknowledged) slant. S&T is nice for the photos and paper charts- my son still has the four page foldout detail of the Milky Way up on his wall. Skeptic just for the off-the wall stuff- it's a good snack time at the table read.
"Seven Deadly Sins? I thought it was a to-do list!"
I love Slashdot Magazine. Trolling feels so much more real and important in physical print! It's crisp, solid, and biting.
And nothing like the actual smell of dupes in the morning. Ahhh, takes the breath away. Just not the same on the 'net, dude.
Table-ized A.I.
I subscribed to Byte when discharged from the Navy in 1977 and maintained the subscription until the day it was killed. They offered to transfer my subscription balance to one of their other publications. None of them interested me because they weren't Byte. A huge hole was left in computer technology reporting that was never filled. Dr. Dobbs persists, at least digitally. For that, we should be grateful.
"Computers are useless. They can only give you answers."
-- Pablo Picasso
Electronics, both digital and analogue, a smattering of internet stuff, reviews of gadgets, 'nuff said.
Internet is yet to obliterate Asian - especially Indian -magazines.
Caravan - http://www.caravanmagazine.in/
Open - http://www.openthemagazine.com...
The above two are new ventures, here are some older ones...
India Today - http://indiatoday.intoday.in/
Frontline - http://www.frontline.in/
And no one has mentioned New Yorker - probably the best over the years.
Tat Tvam Asi
Wired used to be a great magazine. I subscribed about 6 months ago and it is total crap now. It is unreadable.
UK magazine that soberly documents dishonest and two-faced behaviour of, mainly, the rich and powerful. Many have threatened to sue, few have done so successfully.
Another one is "Le canard enchaine", for the french-speaking.
Harper's and Lapham's are really amazing. I'd recommend them for anyone who likes thinking broadly.
The Annals of Improbable Research is quite reasonably priced, and a good read.
After all, where else could you read about "Homosexual Necrophilia in the Mallard Duck" or "Predicting when cows will lie down"?
...si hoc legere nimium eruditionis habes...
You're insane, or you've never read Make, or Byte. For Byte to devolve into Make would... well look, TFA conveniently has PDFs of Byte. Read an issue of each, any issue, cover to cover; In each, skip all ads, no matter how kitsch, retro, or flashy. Byte will take you an hour or two, depending on your reading speed. Make might take you half an hour, if it takes you a few minutes to find the continuation of an article break or you need to use the washroom. Then try to bring to mind what a couple of Byte articles discussed, and the implications, and the same for Make, and note how the latter reads like JK Rowling to the former's Arthur C. Clarke.
I still read Mad Magazine.
It's changed some since I first discovered it (and guffawed at it) decades ago, but it still has some pretty good writing and I get enough chuckles out of it to justify the sub.
The problem with Mad is that Mad will never be as funny as it was when you first discovered it - and it doesn't matter when that was. To me the funniest Mad articles are from the '80s. My Dad read it in the '60s, and thinks those are the best years. I have the whole run on DVD, and the '60s stuff doesn't strike me as funny as the '80s stuff.
The other problem with Mad is that pop culture has become self-parodying, which makes the parodist's job much more difficult.
(Mad isn't a news publication. But the question didn't specify that the periodicals be USEFUL, just worth reading!)
Edge Magazine (http://www.edge-online.com/magazine/) :)
A british gaming industry mag. More about the background, technicalities etc. of gaming.
I still remember they carried a monthly section (in the '90s) where readers could showcase their own 3D modelling skills. Also it had the largest section of gaming vacancies in the UK back then. Joints like RARE and EIDOS posted jobs there.. That should tell you enough about their readership
Any newspaper that doesn NOT carry a horoscope and limits sports coverage to a single page (2, tops) must have a sensible set of priorities. In addition it takes the reaslistic view that pretty much everything of importance has a business or financial driver or consequence (though it does cover natural disasters and upheaval in non-financial terms, usually with a much more level-headed and unsensationalised tone, too).
The weekend FT, especially, is the closest I've ever seen to a well-balanced, non-partisan, grown-up (more in-context F-words and nudity than any other newspaper manages, but it all fits in with the mature nature of the writing) content than you'll find elsewhere.
And full-sized newspapers are so much better than tiny little tablets or even PC screens for getting the BIG picture
politicians are like babies' nappies: they should both be changed regularly and for the same reasons
But the Free Inquiry and the Skeptical Inquirer are well worth reading and supporting IMO.
It is the universe that makes fun of us all.
... it supports the Climate Change scam...
(though I see it's trying to pretend it doesn't at present)
... direct from the short-wave espionage 'number stations' http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numbers_station
Anything else is SO out-of-date...
This one is BMW specific (with a bit of Mini in there too). Subscription is via membership in the BMW Car Club of America.
The magazine is surprisingly good. Far better than any Car & Driver or Motor Trend, etc. The difference is huge. From what I understand, of the car clubs that produce their own publications, Roundel is far and away the best. I haven't verified this myself.
Machinist Workshop
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Strategy & Tactics, Modern War, World at War
History Today
And with D&D Next if they don't bring back the print versions of Dragon and Dungeon I won't be held responsible for my actions
Slashdot, where armchair scientists get shouted down and armchair theologians get modded up.
Guitarist Magazine. Yeah, they do an online version but the mag is much preferable.
Refreshingly rational about digital.
http://www.inpublishing.co.uk/kb/articles/private_eye_a_print_success_story_1338.aspx
If you can't be out riding your motorcycle, at least you can enjoy reading about them.
Dense enough (for me anyways) to take my mind off my hind brain hate/fear of flying.
But both are too expensive to deliver to Germany so I have a digital subscription :(
The dangers of excessive individualism are nothing compared to the oppressiveness of excessive collectivism
try http://hackermonthly.com/ there is printed and pdf option
c't and iX. They are consistently outstanding and full of information you cannot find on the Internet (yet resp. back then). Their tests are actual tests. They often find errors in products and they get back to the manufacturer to get them confirmed and/or fixed. Or not if the manufacturer cannot or does not fix it. This is better than 98% of all "tests" of products which are often not much more than a quick check or even worse, a re-phrasing of press-releases of products.
If you can read German, those are the only paper computer magazines.
I loved the old C/C++ Report, Dr. Dobbs, and other magazines. Then one day they were gone. Today, even the few print magazines like MSDN aren't on the magazine rack any longer. Did magazine buyers stop buying these technical journals? I never did. They just disappeared.
I like to TAKE A BREAK from the computer screen, and do something else. I don't want to look at a screen all day working, and then read magazines on a screen.
At least Dover still prints math books.
American Scientist by Sigma Xi.
A science magazine written by ACTUAL scientist.
(Don't confuse it with Scientific American -- totaly different magazine)
My library has a digital subscription to Mental Floss magazine, which I check out every time I remember it (I'm doing so now, thanks for reminding me). The best part about newspapers and magazines (analog or digital) is that, when I pick them up, I read stories I would not otherwise seek out. Mental Floss is especially cool because of the interesting trivia represented as infographics, and their featured interviews are almost always awesome even if not very well known (two recent ones: Bill Watterson and Neil deGrasse Tyson [before Cosmos, that is]).
I don't actually buy much, but there are a few worth spending time with. They might be available online, but mostly just in the same format as the printed version. Not every issue for any of these, but sometimes Scientific American, American Scientist, Trains, National Geographic, Home Power, Smithsonian, Road & Track... that's about all I can think of without getting into obscure tightly-focused monthlies or geographically specific magazines. I think The Economist has stayed solvent by broadening their appeal. Which means the excellent columns with economics-based analyses of years ago are much rarer. I find The Economist not much different from some of the US-based news weeklies these days, aside from having much better international coverage.
Skrolli, a Finnish tech magazine made by hobbyists for hobbyists. The mainstream tech magazines either died or started reviewing stuff like TV's and electric shavers so hobbyist scene had to start a new magazine. It has been received really well after 5 issues in over one year. Many were skeptical that a new print magazine would make any sense but they have been proven wrong.
Woodworking is just as geeky as the computer field, just with different materials. Both of those magazines publish an excellent print edition, combined with print ads that are still relevant and generally not annoying. In both cases they have also done an excellent job of melding their print operation with the Internet. They feature relevant columnists online who can go into greater detail about subjects in the print magazine, including a lot of excellent how-to video.
Easy Online Role Playing Campaign Management
r.e. main topic of "good print resources": I enjoy Scientific American, recreational reading. I don't know if I could have kept up with The Economist before it was "dumbed down" as mentioned in another post, but it is a good travel magazine for me (airport reading fare) - just not a quick read (for me). I subscribed to Wall Street Journal for a while but just didn't have time to read all of it - I found some interesting things there. I am going to try a Guardian subscription based on another recommendation.
Here's an excerpt from As We May Think: fascinating reading, I encourage you to check it out (same link)if you haven't yet.
Let us project this trend ahead to a logical, if not inevitable, outcome. The camera hound of the future wears on his forehead a lump a little larger than a walnut. It takes pictures 3 millimeters square, later to be projected or enlarged, which after all involves only a factor of 10 beyond present practice. The lens is of universal focus, down to any distance accommodated by the unaided eye, simply because it is of short focal length. There is a built-in photocell on the walnut such as we now have on at least one camera, which automatically adjusts exposure for a wide range of illumination.
Also... we're not there yet on "trails".... has a fascinating section on readers researching and building their own trails; the closest I've seen is browser bookmarks. "trails" are a different thing than pre-canned trails stitched together by authors. This captures WikiPedia pretty well (in 1945!):
Wholly new forms of encyclopedias will appear, ready made with a mesh of associative trails running through them, ready to be dropped into the memex and there amplified. The lawyer has at his touch the associated opinions and decisions of his whole experience, and of the experience of friends and authorities. The patent attorney has on call the millions of issued patents, with familiar trails to every point of his client's interest. The physician, puzzled by a patient's reactions, strikes the trail established in studying an earlier similar case, and runs rapidly through analogous case histories, with side references to the classics for the pertinent anatomy and histology. The chemist, struggling with the synthesis of an organic compound, has all the chemical literature before him in his laboratory, with trails following the analogies of compounds, and side trails to their physical and chemical behavior.
Garden & Gun magazine.
Byline: Soul of the South
Which is especially strange since I'm a socialist liberal living in an apartment in New Jersey. I first subscribed as a joke, but it turns out that this is probably the last magazine I'll stop subscribing to. Great insight into a lifestyle that isn't available to me.
Other great periodicals that I don't see people mentioning include Wine Spectator (I don't really drink wine, or at least not any that costs more than $5/bottle), Outside magazine (I spend most of my life in a cubicle or a car), Powder magazine (skiing the east coast, the only time you see powder is in photographs).
Perhaps my taste in magazines has more to do with escapism than anything else?
Chuuch. Preach. Tabernacle.
Both magazines are well designed and contain great bits of info if you're into that sorta thing. I highly recommend OFF-GRID, as it's got great information that's useful just in your daily life, even if you're not a survivalist.
"Better to be vulgar than non-existent" -Bev Henson
Net magazine is an excellent magazine about web development, which ironically has an almost unusable website.
http://technologyreview.com/
Depending on your tastes.... Mother Earth News?
mark
Nuts and Volts as well as Circuit Cellar are good hardware zines. Nuts and Volts is a little lighter than CC but I like them both.
See my blog http://ilovecookes.blogspot.com/ for light hearted technical information.
The U.S. Naval Institute's "Proceedings" magazine.
Yes there is an online version, but where else can you clip adverts for rail guns?
Tracy Johnson
Old fashioned text games hosted below:
http://empire.openmpe.com/
BT
He's right
Rolling Stone for sure!
I'm here for the experience, not the Hyperbole.
There are a lot of magazines that cover niche topics, hobbies, etc. Specifically those that target a mostly older demographic are likely to still have good content in print. I used to be into woodworking and there were still quite a few magazines specific to that topic that were worth reading. Shopnotes, Wood, Fine Woodworking, etc. They're all expanding their online content, but I don't see them going online-only anytime soon.
--Still has pretty good writing, and it's fun to read the weather predictions and compare them against reality.
Also worth mentioning - AMA (American Motorcyclist)
Consumer Reports
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== WolfriderV6 == I'm willing to admit that *I just might* be wrong... Are you??