Magazine and website list

[denise]

Looking to generate a list of high-profile magazines and websites that cater to any/all of the following markets:

* Technology
* Creativity
* Writing
* Online community

Basically, any market you think would be a good match for Dreamwidth, or a magazine/website/production read/visited by a high number or percentage of people that match the DW vibe.

Comments

[cesy]

Slashdot? Possibly better avoided.

[pollyanna]

How about http://www.theregister.co.uk ? I don't know how widely read that is outside of the UK, but it's usually the first port of call for UK IT readers. And there is a Music and Media subsection.

mag

[ellenp]

InfoWeek

[elizaria]

http://mashable.com/ - blog focused exclusively on Web 2.0 and Social Media news.

http://boingboing.net/ - a directory of wonderful things aka all sorts of stuff linked on that blog

http://www.techcrunch.com/about-techcrunch/ - weblog dedicated to obsessively profiling and reviewing new Internet products and companies. In addition to covering new companies, we profile existing companies that are making an impact (commercial and/or cultural) on the new web space.


Maybes
http://lifehacker.com/ has posted some about social networking sites

http://webworkerdaily.com/ cover the future of work in a post-broadband world. We offer practical tips and advice for anyone who uses the web for work, especially those who want to use the web to be more productive, more connected and more successful than they could otherwise.


... if those are even remotely what you were thinking of?

[denise]

Exactly so, yes, thank you! (I'm doing the legwork necessary to start building up a portfolio of potential advertising markets for Mark and I to talk over and see which ones we want/how much we want to spend this upcoming quarter.)

[elizaria]

:) Bet that's a lot of stuff to gather up for consideration.

These sites are also maybes;
http://www.cnet.com/ which has their subsites; http://news.cnet.com/webware/ , http://news.cnet.com/ and http://reviews.cnet.com

http://www.wired.com/ which has a wide spread but is interesting: Wired.com is a daily technology news website; Wired magazine is a monthly print publication. However, Wired.com and Wired magazine collaborate on many projects, and the Wired.com site serves as the digital home of Wired magazine

And then there's http://gigaom.com/ which is moslty about webbusiness but a maybe perhaps. They did write about SixApart buying LJ. GigaOm also owns previously linked webworkerdaily.


and others like:
http://www.crunchbase.com/ - free database of technology companies, people, and investors that anyone can edit.

[beledibabe]

Fastcompany.com

[zvi]

Linux sites

http://linux.com/
http://lexer.com/
http://distrowatch.com/

[princessofgeeks]

Ars Technica website, Wired, Writers Digest, Writer, Wall Street Journal's Personal Journal section, Poets and Writers.

Writer's Digest has been very interested in the growth of online self-marketing trends for writers as well as self-publishing. They do a lot of stuff online, too, mostly marketing their own workshops, but they have an online newsletter and are trying to get online communities going.

[adalger]

Game Informer (mostly devoted to console and PC gamers, who are going to be a large crossover group with fanfic readers and writers)

I wanted to say Tournaments Illuminated, but I'm not sure their advertising policies would allow that.

[janinedog]

Regarding CNET, I'm friends with an internet/tech writer/reporter there. So let me know if you want to be connected with her. :)

[zdashamber]

MAKE magazine and CRAFT magazine. Likewise, http://www.instructables.com/.

[zarhooie]

I'd think that we'd be a good match for Etsy users.

More Linux

[baggyeyes]

Linux Today - Carla Schroder is the editor. A very cool person.

Linux Magazine (U.K.).

[lian]

ooh, good one.

[damned_colonial]

AVOID. Pit of misogynistic wankery.

[damned_colonial]

You should advertise on Ravelry.

[damned_colonial]

I second this!

[baggyeyes]

I forgot to add any other stuff, particularly Mac|Life.

43folders.com uses something called 'The Deck', a service that has "only twenty-five advertising slots available each month for the entire Deck. Only a single ad will be shown for each page viewed."

Finally, there are the TWiTs. Leo Laporte, Amber McArthur, and many others and their audio and video podcasts. I unfortunately don't get to enjoy these, thanks to my dang dialup. :-(

[foxfirefey]

http://www.projectwonderful.com/ ads are available on a lot of webcomic sites, among others. They have a great search engine for finding sites, and the advertising is pretty cheap. I know that I actually look at PW ads on comic sites I visit--often they're advertising other comics I might be interested in.

[pineapplechild]

Agreed.

[watersword]

Smashing Magazine? smashingmagazine.com

[susanreads]

All the tech sites I've heard of have already been mentioned.

I thought of Cerise gaming magazine (http://cerise.theirisnetwork.org/), but I had a look and they use Project Wonderful, which foxfirefey recommended already.

What about scienceblogs.com, e.g. http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/ - I'm sure there's advertising of some sort on there?

Hmmm...

[naturedance]

Perhaps http://bitchmagazine.org/ ?

[kareila]

The two tech magazines I read are Macworld & Wired. Mac|Life might be a better fit than Macworld, though.

[rainkatt]

Possibles: the Interweave family, ravelry.com, maybe knitty.com? (All craft sites.)

[baggyeyes]

Blogher?

[juliet]

I mentioned to Mark a while back that I'd like to pitch something on DW to one of the places I write for (Linux Today, as mentioned above, would be one option!). He said best wait till nearer launch; this comment is mostly to flag up that I'm still hoping to do this & will ping you again about it once there's a launch date :) (or feel free to ping me!)

[topaz119]

Smart Bitches, Trashy Books ???

They definitely have the DW vibe.

http://www.smartbitchestrashybooks.com/index.php

[katieintheworld]

Adding my vote to ravelry and Etsy.

Geeky online sciencey types: Think Geek (http://www.thinkgeek.com/), and Ph.D. (Piled Higher and Deeper) comics for the exhausted grad students among us: http://www.phdcomics.com/

I have no idea if advertizing is even really an option with them, but you can check maybe? If not, you can laugh.

[katieintheworld]

Also Mint (www.mint.com) which is financial organizing,

Alibris (book sellers),

Freelance Switch (blog about freelancing and bboard, with advertising: http://freelanceswitch.com/freelancing-essentials/the-science-of-freelancing/)

The A.V. Club (Gateways to Geekery):
http://www.avclub.com/features/gateways-to-geekery/
(The Onion store advertises there)

Atlas Obscura (visual wonders, curiosities and esoterica)
http://atlasobscura.com/

And just because it was there with the list of other links,
http://www.sellmycanoe.com/
Which is maybe not the geeky demographic, but they could be bloggers, man!
(Disney advertises there)

[cinco]

Bitch, Bust, Utne, and Readymade magazines.

Nthing Ravelry and Etsy!

[serene]

http://duotrope.com

[magycmyste]

Writer's Digest

[adalger]

http://www.tek-tips.com/ : IT people forum to ask questions and give each other answers about IT stuff.

[foxfirefey]

http://paidcontent.org/ might want to do an article on sites like DW and Ravelry.

[trs80.ucc.asn.au]

http://lwn.net/ - there's quite a few kernel hackers who currently use LJ.

[magistrate]

You might consider speculative fiction magazines such as Strange Horizons ( www.strangehorizons.com ) and Fantasy Magazine ( www.darkfantasy.org/fantasy/ )...

[nostariel]

Maybe fanfiction.net?

TWoP, cos they have a lot of LJers.

Most journalers/bloggers/social networking users are women, right? So, sites w/ wimminfolks: http://www.ivillage.com , http://www.webgrrls.com , http://www.pinkmagazine.com , http://thenextwomen.com , Jezebel.com.

MakeUseOf writes about cool and/or useful sites, getting into their diectory would be nifty, though I don't know how one goes about doing that.