Re: [9fans] RFC: 9zine

[john@csplan9.rit.edu]

> On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 09:14:38PM -0400, Tom Lieber wrote:
>> On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 8:04 PM, Enrico Weigelt <weigelt@metux.de> wrote:
>> >  I'm currently planning an little ezine about Plan9 and related stuff
>> >  (incl. 9P+synthentic filesystems on other OS'es).
>> >  Maybe anyone interested ?
>> I would read it.
>
> Depends entirely on the format and content. It could be exactly the
> thing plan9 "needs" or it could be completely useless.
>
> Where would you get the content?
>

My concern with "ezines" is always that they don't have much to offer
that you can't get through incremental updates to a blog.  I like
getting real magazines and newsletters because you have the
anticipation of waiting and end up with a nice stack of the old stuff
to proudly display in your basement.  It's not a rational thing; I
just think people prefer to have this kind of thing mailed, rather
than downloading and printing it themselves.

If said...  magazine (I hate the word 'zine') is interesting enough,
say, with new papers and editorials from people who actually know
something about Plan 9, I'd print it out and read it.  There are some
really great things being done with Plan 9 by some really smart
people; I won't put myself in that class but I could probably put out
an article or two myself.

If it turns out to be "Enrico and Pietro propose 10 new synthetic
filesystems they'll never build", well, I can read that on 9fans and
so will everyone else who doesn't have an adequate killfile.


John