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I don't like the idea of ILx as community. This is not the place to explain why - that is, I do not know which words to feed yous. But we have such a great opportune resource here - so many writers in one congregation. Most of them are fair to middling so why not use them? So - the possibility of compiling a zine made up of contributions of ILxees: is this 'a possibility'? This was brought on by thinking why isn't Freaky Trigger in print? Probly 'cos of it being Tom's and Tom wanting to keep his hobby as free of any monetary umbilicus at all.

So, in short: is it possible? Would you be in?

― david h(0wie), Sunday, 4 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

New "we've got to worry about ILx's new life and you try and spring this on us you're halfing a Turkish Geezah" answers.

― david h(0wie), Sunday, 4 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

I'd draw you a picture.

(oh and I don't think you can get away from viewing ILx as a community, it has far too many of the classic hallmarks: shared language, support networks, group history etc. You may view the community as being continued via other means such as real-life meetings, but they strengthen the communal feeling)

― jel --, Sunday, 4 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh no, - I know it is. I just don't like that as a concept (idea?).

― david h(0wie), Sunday, 4 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

What would be the point of turning it into print when a website is so much easier and more economical? Probably has a wider readership than a lot of print zines as well...

― Matt DC, Sunday, 4 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

The trouble with zines they have a much smaller reach and are out of date as soon as printed - and are costly and involve a lot of work re production and distribution, most weblogs have a global reach due search engines such as Google - and can be updated instantly.

The only worthwhile possibility i can see is a once year "ILM Yearbook" zine - to reflect the past year, that could be published each January.

― DJ Martian, Sunday, 4 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

DG to delete button!

― david h(0wie), Sunday, 4 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Its really cool the idea of DG sitting in a chair at the top all day long watching ILE and looking at us typing things, laughing of how mediocre we are. With these big-ass red buttons "DELETE" "CREAT NEW THREAD" "SELF-DESTRUCT" just analyzing if he will answer David's call

― Chupa-Cabras, Sunday, 4 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

i think the one anthony was getting together might be kind of like what you're describing. while not intended to be an ILX zine, he was soliciting contributions around here.

― Ron, Sunday, 4 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

It's a community, yrp. And yeah, a print thing seems sorta odd. It's intrinsically tied in so much with blogging comments and discussion as well that to turn it into a print thing would inevitably lose much context.

― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 4 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

I didn't mean an ILx themed zine - but rather, if I start a general music zine will you all write for me? haha

― david h(0wie), Sunday, 4 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

the web is there. if only I had the time i would like to try it...just sitting at home and writing could be good. ILX is where i put my thoughts on music down but they can be horribly unconsidered and clumsily (or really badly) written...the question has to be who would put such a thing together.

― Julio Desouza, Sunday, 4 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Don't push me

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― DG, Monday, 5 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Freaky Trigger isn't in print because learning HTML and downloading an FTP program and buying webspace is so so so so so much easier and less time-consuming than learning DTP and finding printers and finding distributors and phoning round shops and putting stuff in envelopes for the US/Germany/New Zealand etc.

I think there is totally a place for printed music fanzines - as souvenirs of a time or scene, as a binding agent for a local scene (a physical product you can pick up at a venue) - but that wasn't what I wanted to do.

That said the idea of doing *something* in print has been toyed with by me lots and probably by lots of you too.

― Tom, Monday, 5 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Some of us published and edited zines on real paper for years Tom, and still make the occasional tiny contribution to them. I can't see going back, personally. Fortunately no one wants me to write about music anyway, of course, so it's not an issue here. But I had to work hard for years to get my mag's sales up into the thousands (best selling Brit comic mag, in its day, by a good way I think). How many hits do you get on Freaky Trigger? On individual articles?

― Martin Skidmore, Monday, 5 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

I prefer print zines to online ones. I think people are more inclined to actually read a physical artefact. The web is better for chat based things. That's why I read lots o' stuff on ILx but seldom read Freaky Trigger articles all the way through. Unless they're by me.

It might be interesting to set up an ILx contributors zine, though. It would be fun to have something that could fite with Freaky Trigger as the real thing of which ILx is an offshoot.

― DV, Monday, 5 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

the following people have contributed things to my zine who said they would:

anthony easton.

frank kogan.

(you both get a cookie.)

the following people still owe me pieces they promised:

J. KORTBEIN

T. EWING

T. FINNEY

W. GOOF (haha i don't know graham's last name)

G. DAYAL

E. PADGETT

M. RICHARDSON

M. MATOS

D. WOLK (who i don't expect to contribute anything since he's got a very busy period coming up)

(and probably some others i've forgotten besides.)

(you all get a spanking.)

the following people never got back to me about it period:

S. CLARKE

M. JOHNSTON

(and actually, since it's on hold for the time being anyway [but not dead!] since i am broke broke broke, anyone else who wishes to contribute can get in touch at the usual address.)

― jess, Monday, 5 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

*sniff* I don't think I was asked. But I could contribute some lies.

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 5 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Did you work out what it was going to be about Jess or did I miss the end of that email discussion?

― Tom, Monday, 5 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

I think im gonna write something just to piss Jess off

― Chupa-Cabras, Monday, 5 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

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