Ask YC: What are some good Geek Magazines?
What are some good Geek Magazines?
The modern magazine is a wild mixture of topical essays, edgy literature, and book reviews. You really never know what you're going to get, but you can count on it being inflammatory.
As an added bonus, the (very inexpensive) subscription comes with archives access - everything back to the 19th century beginning.
Really, I think that the 'geek' stuff is now either online or dying out rapidly, as someone else here remarked yesterday the print industry is dying. I know it isn't quite there yet but I expect daily news, weeklies a and monthly periodicals to succumb in that order, not sure about real books though, they may hang around for a lot longer.
The more timely the delivery of your content the bigger the threat from the online media is. Sure there are plenty of magazines left, but it remains to be seen how much longer they will last. It would be an interesting poll to see how many of the people frequenting HN still get their media fix in paper format.
I've cancelled my last subscription to any 'geek' magazine other than Scientific American years ago. And even that is available online now...