I was reading Yahoo Internet Life (www.yil.com) magazine the other day, and I realized that there are NO stories about the online journal community in any of the computer magazines. Isn't it about time we got some recognition? Isn't it about time that Pamie and Columbine and Elizabth and Kymm got some props in PRINT? I mean, JenniCam is in tons of magazines, but journallers are nowhere to be found. And journals offer a much more intimate look at a person than some dumb ol' webcam. So my call is this - journallers and readers UNITE! Send email to backchat@zd.com or click@zd.com, or even better, to the editor in chief, barry_golson@zd.com. Tell the writers at YIL that journallers are out there and we want a fair market share. And while you're at it, suggest to them that you would love to read a column by Pamie (or whoever your favorite journaler is) in their magazine. Maybe we can get someone hired - or at least some notice.

Does this make me a geek?

-- Anonymous, August 11, 1999

Answers

I'm pretty sure YIL has done lots of stories on online journaling. So has the New York Times and all sorts of regional papers and magazines. A print magazine in Australia and that big UK internet magazine (can't remember the name) have done major stories, as well.

-- Anonymous, August 11, 1999

Yeah! Go Mellie! Let's be heard! Uh....that's all I can think of. Sorry Mellie. No one really reads my crappy journal anyway. But I will send an e-mail to those addresses and support the cause!

One thing Mellie, it might help if you actually updated your own journal....you think? :)

-- Anonymous, August 11, 1999

Yeah, but your a good geek.

Only joking!

I totally agree with everything you said. The only articles I've seen in regard to journals tends to pay them out, without bothering to source out the popular sites. As everyone knows there is a lot of crap out there, however the good stuff - like our dear Pamie, Kymm or Maggie etc, as is a really good read. Addictive even.

The only thing is I wouldn't want them to become too busy to keep up with the journal. Withdrawal would be too harsh.

-- Anonymous, August 11, 1999

Well, Maggie Dearest, in regard to you asking me to update...I DID! yes, it's true, I've acutally updated the long neglected Kaleidoscope. I've also finally uploaded some of the new graphics I've worked out. The only thing is, some of the links don't work cause I haven't yet made pages for them. hehe, funny how that happens. So anyway, go to my page, http://members.tripod.com/MellieBee, click on my lovely picture, then click on the "my journal" link at the bottom of the welcome page, kay? It's not terribly interesting though. Sorry.

For Beth - I haven't read a single article about online journallers. If you know of a specific issue and mag I could look it up in, I'd love to read a story about it.

-- Anonymous, August 11, 1999

Ask Kymm. She sent me a clipping from a New Jersey paper that mentioned me, and I know she knows the details about the New York Times story (because she was interviewed). The Globe & Mail (is that the name?) in Canada did a story last year and featured Scott, among others.

The UK mag I mentioned before was The Net.

Metajournals has a list of articles about online journals, which includes some of the major print articles (I don't think it's been updated in a while, though, and many aren't included because they aren't online). Scroll down to the bottom of that page and you'll find lots of stuff about online journals.

You'll note that Yahoo Internet Life is on that list, although the article is so old that most of those journals don't even exist anymore.

-- Anonymous, August 11, 1999

Pamie did have a story on her in the Austin American Statesman, I think. All I know is that some guy said he was doing a story on her and took like 2 rolls of pictures of the troupe warming up, but you never know what he did with those pictures...

-- Anonymous, August 12, 1999

We have a weekly journal roundup over at ESC Magazine (www.escmag.com). Problem is, I can never get any official endorsement (or even mention) from the big groups. So, because we do the roundup on a voluntary basis, it's usually lacking.

Anyway, please, please give me your advice, O Journallers, whether here or via e-mail.

-- Anonymous, August 12, 1999

Yes, the name of the newspaper is The Globe & Mail. I wasn't aware of that article; I'll have to comb through the archives in the library of the school I work at.

-- Anonymous, August 13, 1999

I was in Yahoo Internet Life a long time ago, like two years ago or something. It was I think the second time that I had been in an article and I was so excited. Now, though, I'm interested in getting out of the specialty mags and into the mainstream, like New York Magazine or Entertainment Weekly's Internet section. I've been predicting that the journalling thing would explode this year, and I've only got a few more months to be right.

-- Anonymous, August 14, 1999

How about People Magazine? I would do People Magazine. I'd go back to talking about my sex life if it would get me into People. I'd make up a three-legged love child if it would get me into People.

-- Anonymous, August 14, 1999

oooh, i think we should all conspire to get beth into people. we need to stage some sort of media coup. hmmm...

-- Anonymous, August 14, 1999

As long as it doesn't involve me dying in some spectacular way, that would be great. Maybe I could be a write-in for a most beautiful person, like Hank the Angry Drunken Dwarf two years ago.

-- Anonymous, August 15, 1999