While I was having my morning coffee at my one of my favorite little coffee shops in Berkeley - Nefeli Cafe - I picked up the local San Francisco Chronicle Datebook section and came across an article about 8020 Publishing. What I love about this story and this particular company is it is using Web 2.0 to create somethign “concrete” - it is actually publshing magazines based on the content provided by the community. As the article states in today’s publishing climate all the magazines are scrambling to find ways to get online; to increase their presence on the web.
So what 8020 Publishing is doing is the exact opposite. It is taking the content that the community provides to create, at the moment (I think they will branch out very soon), two magazines: Everywhere & JPG. To me this is where the internet gets interesting because it opens up all kinds of possibilities to create a global collaborative community but there is nothign to say that the product or even the goal (if I dare say so) can be to create soemthign concrete - an actual physical creation out of the “digital media”.
No Comments » Posted on May 27th, 2008 by Saul Wainwright
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