Feed or feedmag.com was one of the earliest e-zines that relied entirely on its original online content. An Ezine is a periodic publication distributed by email or posted on a website. ...
The site
Feed was founded by Stefanie Syman and Steven Johnson in 1995, and soon found a devoted online following. The zine had daily content, and focused on media, pop culture, technology, science and the arts. One of the editors was novelist Sam Lipsyte. Steven Berlin Johnson is an American popular science author. ... Sam Lipsyte was born in New Jersey in 1968 and is the author of three books: Venus Drive, The Subject Steve, and Home Land. ...
Automatic Media
In July 2000, following a sharp downturn in internet investment, Feed merged with popular editorial site suck.com to create Automatic Media. Their concept was to streamline their operations and collaborate on boutique operations with low staffing costs. Their joint project Plastic.com was founded with only 4 staffed employees. Despite the faithful cult following, and a combined reader base of over 1 million, Automatic Media folded in June 2001. This article is about the year 2000. ... Suck. ... Automatic Media was created as a joint venture by early editorial dot-coms suck. ... In computing, plastic or plastic. ...
External links
http://www.feedmag.com - Feed's old URL, which served for some time as an archive of old articles, and is now unresponsive.
A News.com article on Feed's demise
A Salon.com article on the end of Suck and Feed
A USA Today article on the history of Automatic Media
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They asked if he wanted to be editor of their magazine.
Or if you aren't so interested in Feed stories, but you want to be mostly involved in the community and want to hang out with all of these super-smart readers, you can do that.
And I think we tend to ask them to do interesting projects, so it's not like, "Write the standard piece that you write for everyone else." Usually they're pieces that are in a new format or let them follow up an obsession that they have.
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