Ezine
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An ezine is a periodic publication distributed by email or posted on a website. CULT OF THE DEAD COW claims to have published the first ezine, starting in 1984, with its ezine still in production more than 20 years later. While this claim is hotly debated, the ezine craze certainly began in the BBS days of the 1980s. Phrack opened its doors in 1985 and unlike CULT OF THE DEAD COW, which publishes articles individually, Phrack published collections of articles in a manner that was more similar to a print magazine. Phrack ceased production in 2005.
Ezines are typically tightly focused on a subject area. Ezines in concept are reworkings of the popular magazine format of seasonal, monthly, or weekly topical publications, in an electronic format.
In the late 1990's a new concept was found by some Ezine publishers adapting the publication to the medium (Internet) instead of creating a magazine on the web. Some of the more noted attempts were Kafenio (Kafeniocom.com, 2000, ceased publication) and Zone451 now renamed JustSayGo 1999 (first published in traditional format in 1995) , these Ezines were also competitors for content specializing both in travel though Kafenio was only about Europe. Another notable fact about travel Ezines seems to be that you encounter the same names in almost every publication in different functions.
Themestream (2001, now defunct) was another interesting attempt at generating content by opening its pages to everybody who cared to write (and get paid by the Click). Webseed tried to take up on the idea but to the contrary of Themestream created individual zines. This experiment was terminated shortly after the dot-com crash though some of the zines created are still on the market such as NatureOfAnimals or FranceForFreebooters.
The tendency seems to be that the new concepts of the Ezines go more towards interactive content and those using old fashioned layouts are slowly are ceasing publication, such as [zinos].
[edit] List of ezines
- A List Apart
- ArcaMax
- Ao2M
- BME
- Emerald City
- EGO Magazine
- EuroHacker Magazine
- [JustSayGo]
- The Escapist
- K1ine
- Ombligo 23
- Mstation
- Perigee: Publication for the Arts
- [zinos]
- Phrack
- Points in Case
- sfsite
- Sole Proprietor Magazine
- The Irascible Professor
- webmonkey
