Ezine

An ezine is a periodic publication distributed by email or posted on a website. Ezines are typically tightly focused on a subject area.

Ezine Pronunciation and Derivation

From time to time differences in pronunciation arise, probably due to lack of careful thought about its origins.

The word "ezine" or "e-zine" is a contraction of "electronic magazine". That suggests that the correct pronunciation should be "ee-zeen" rather than "ee-zyne" or "ee-zign" (as in "design").

This is further supported by traditional usage in terms like "fan-zines", a long-established form of periodical, especially in the science fiction community.

Ezine History

CULT OF THE DEAD COW claims to have published the first ezine, starting in 1984, with its ezine still in production more than 20 years later. While this claim is hotly debated, ezines certainly began in the BBS days of the 1980s. Phrack began publication in 1985 and, unlike CULT OF THE DEAD COW which publishes articles individually, Phrack published collections of articles in a manner more similar to a print magazine. Phrack ceased production in 2005.

In the late 1990s Ezine publishers began adapting to the interactive qualities of the Internet instead of duplicating magazines on the web. Some of these attempts included Kafenio (ISSN 1108-6866) and Zone451 (now renamed JustSayGo and first published in traditional format in 1995). Themestream (2001, now defuct^[1]) was another attempt at generating content by opening its pages to everybody who cared to write and get paid by the click. Webseed tried to take up on the idea but to the contrary of Themestream created individual zines.^[2] This experiment was terminated shortly after the dot-com crash though some of the zines created are still on the market such as NatureOfAnimals or FranceForFreebooters.

The tendency seems to be that the new concepts of the Ezines go more towards interactive content and those using old fashioned layouts are slowly ceasing publication, such as zinos. These changing trends are in part due to escalating problems getting ezines past ever-more-vigilant spam filters and to the increasing popularity of weblogs (blogs). Many established ezines have now become little more than teasers for web-based versions, or for blog versions that provide greater interaction.

References

1. ^ Themestream.com is closing its doors
2. ^ Webseed

External links

The Ezine Directory
Ezine Article Ammo
John Labovitz's E-Zine-List
Textfiles.com Web-era ezine Archive
Textfiles.com ezine Archive
Zinester's Ezine Directory
Rock n Roll Webzine
The Finer Edge
WeirdMusic.net E-zine - E-zine Dedicated to Experimental Music
Cosmopolis - a magazine on current affairs and culture

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Click or Klik, a type of visual computer programming
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Most are distributed free and made by the ezine organizers. Some articles are contributed by other persons.
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A zine—an abbreviation of the word fanzine, and originating from the word magazine^[1]^[2]—is most commonly a small circulation, non-commercial publication of original or appropriated texts and images.
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textfiles.com is a web site run by Jason Scott dedicated to preserving the digital documents that contain the history of the BBS world and various subcultures. The site categorises and stores thousands of ASCII files.
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