Whipping POST

I finally got a chance to check out the much-maligned Post, the print version of the blog-driven online magazine offered up by Capital Newspapers. The Dulcinea gave me her copy of the second issue. Since I already frequent the electronic version, there wasn't much I hadn't already read or had the chance to read. I found the layout and typeface to be nice – something that certain folks have complained about.

OK, so the links here aren't hyper. That's a given so get over it. My main gripe is really that photos which are endowed with color online are bleached to black & white here. Take the one of the shanty out on the ice. In color, there's the blue skies and the yellow shanty which sticks out like a sore thumb sitting on the snow. But in black & white it looks like an FSA photo from the mid-1930s.

Just as with coreweekly, the print version of Post isn't aimed at me, though for different reasons. Tampons aren't marketed to me either but I don't go around trashing them. Perhaps the publication will snare folks who don't get online much or those who do but don't read blogs. Post seems a rather egalitarian enterprise so far as anyone can submit themselves as a contributor. It should be interesting to see how the publication eventually pans out with at least some non-journalists writing for it.

Personally I was just happy for the absence of "My Piece of Sh*t Car" or its current equivalent.