Before I got into this internet/blogging malarkey I was producing zines. I've never understood the appeal of mass market magazines and the associated advertising.
The Magazineer looks like a great niche blog, and you should never under-estimate the appeal of having your prejudices reflected back at you, especially in such a well-considered manner.
If anything has changed, it’s the amount of product-driven content. This issue contained 18 pages in the front of the book that were devoted entirely to products (What’s Inside Lotrimin Ultra? Play Super Mario! Wow, Expensive Motorcycle!). Then there’s the Wish List, “a survey of the stuff we’re dying to get (and give) this holiday season,” which includes a Top Ten that lasts for 12 pages, plus 24 pages of some of the most blatant product placement I’ve ever seen in a magazine.
