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2012: The Revenge of Mail

Since 2011 was “the revenge of print” year perhaps 2012 could be “the revenge of mail”.

The US postal service is closing offices and reducing services, citing declining use of the postal service through unreliable statistics and touting budget shortfalls and general mismanagement. Who loses when post offices close? Everybody.

Now is the time to pick up a pen, find some paper, dust off the typewriter, write a letter. make some art, get in touch with a friend, or mail…

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Added by DJ Frederick on October 25, 2011 at 9:28am — No Comments

One minute zine review for radio

My latest project is creating "one minute zine reviews" for college and community radio stations ... the first one is up at Radio4all.net ... I welcome zines to review but please send me a query first for mailing address!

Added by DJ Frederick on October 11, 2010 at 5:13pm — No Comments

What I'm Reading

I've been reading / writing zines since the 1970s & my favorite reads of 2010 (so far):

Silent Type

XTra Tuf #5

Basic Paper Airplane #3

Greenwoman #6

Added by DJ Frederick on September 14, 2010 at 9:55am — No Comments

One Minute* Zine Review #1

a new video project ...

http://www.youtube.com/user/zottepark

Added by DJ Frederick on September 4, 2010 at 9:07am — No Comments

Signals 3

There's a new issue of Signals, a zine devoted to shortwave, pirate radio and community radio topics. This issue includes articles on types of radio stations,

Food Not Bombs Liberation Radio, Amateur Radio, The Pirates Week Podcast

and more. 42 pp 1/2 size ... email for price, trades, review copies, etc.…

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Added by DJ Frederick on August 23, 2010 at 4:36pm — No Comments