Comments on: Magazines

By: isaac

isaac — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 17:38:58 +0000

The Economist
The Atlantic
National Geographic
GQ
Wired
Rolling Stone

By: Random Michelle K

Random Michelle K — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 19:54:34 +0000

Jeri,

I had a subscription to Cooks Country, but I let it lapse. Something about it I just didn’t quite like.

And I have to admit that I kinda like Cooking Light’s lifestyle bits, but then it’s usually stuff I’m interested in anyway. (Let’s say that I’m a sucker for anything taht tells me how to reduce stress in my life.)

By: Jeri

Jeri — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 19:38:52 +0000

Bill, sorry, I rescued you from moderation purgatory. Don’t know why… I should take a look at MacWorld, I enjoy Mac-oriented blogs & e-zines. Don’t you find that Gizmodo and Engadget are redundant? They seem to cover the same products. I’ve switched over to dvice.com (SF Channel’s gadget blog) – it’s a more amusing approach.

Becca, do you like Cook’s Country? I got the promotional push when they started publishing it. I’m super picky about the writing in my cooking mags (kind of like BM) — they need to be educational & informative, not just recipes & features, and they need to be pretty much focused on the cooking. Cooking Light’s lifestyle features annoy me, as do Country Living’s (IMHO a decorator mag) cooking features.

By: Rebecca

Rebecca — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 18:46:47 +0000

We have subscriptions to:

Cooks Illustrated
Cooks Country
RedBook
Lots of Computer Mags
Lots of Network Security Mags (what hubs does)
This Old House

And others.

By: Jeri

Jeri — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 18:44:49 +0000

Michelle, I’ll have to try Body and Soul.

Janiece, my folks used to get National Geographic, they had an archive of years worth of issues. I used it a lot for reference for history and science assignments! When a doctor’s office has the magazine, it’s usually my first choice… don’t know why we don’t subscribe to it.

Nathan, the NY Times is HUGE. It’s a monster paper – probably a good chunk o’ tree for each issue. News magazines seem so dated now, with the advent of immediate online news, so I typically don’t read them either.

By: Nathan

Nathan — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 16:02:08 +0000

I don’t subscribe to anything…paper or pixels. I let my NY Times subscription lapse about 4-5 years ago. I’ve never been a big fan of magazines. The articles either tell the story from the very beginning (as if I don’t know anything about our history in Iraq), or don’t tell enough. Not a big fan.

By: Janiece

Janiece — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 14:09:54 +0000

Newsweek and National Geographic.

On-line, only Consumer Reports.

By: Michelle K

Michelle K — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 12:17:10 +0000

Body & Soul is probably classified as a holisitic health magazine. Lots of articles on coping with stress, exercise articles each month (though there is a lot of focus on yoga), how to be green articles, food articles, and it’s focused for all ages (although women primarily). They recently had an article on exercise, that targeted exercise in your 30s, in your 40s, and in your 50s. It was pretty interesting.

Real simple I like for the organization. Because as I may have mentioned, my house is very small, and has three adults, and some days it feels like there just isn’t enough space. So it gives me lots of good ideas, many of which have worked very well. (Right now I’m moving all my CDs and then DVDs into cases so I can get rid of the space consuming jewel cases. Awesome! Next up? Getting a portable hard drive so I can put all that music on my hard drive and put the cases in the back of some close. Woot!

By: MWT

MWT — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 06:03:19 +0000

At the moment all I have is a gift subscription to Reader’s Digest – which I read voraciously as a kid but lost interest somewhere in my mid-teens. They suddenly started having a much more conservative slant, and I found myself in vehement disagreement with more and more of their regular articles, until eventually all I was reading was the anecdotes at the ends. I think I’ve mentioned elsewhere that the rest of my family has not kept up with who I am as a person, and still think I have the same interests as when I was ten…

I used to be subscribed to Discover, Smithsonian, Earth (a totally awesome geology/meteorology magazine until it folded), and Science News. Then I was a grad student and stopped having time to read for leisure, so I fell out of the habit. I should probably pick up Discover and Science News again.

By: Jeri

Jeri — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 05:09:40 +0000

BM – do you like Bead & Button? I really like Jewelry Arts (formerly Lapidary Journal) but I haven’t ever subscribed to it. I hear you on the writing – I’ve cancelled cooking mag subscriptions because of it.

Slatrat – you get a couple of the big gun mags! I’ve never looked at ESPN, but my favorite sports writer, Rick Reilly, just went over to them… it might be worth browsing online if I could find his columns again.

Thanks, all, for the well-wishes… I was well last night and it didn’t come back again today, so I think it’s blown over for now.

Oh – and on the mags? Boy do they stack up, and only a couple of ours are weeklies! But worth it, I guess.