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John Philpin's public journal serves as an outward window into his private writing life, sharing daily commentary on technology, culture, media, and the open web. Posts link out to and riff on articles about AI, RSS, credit bureaus, and design history, making it a thoughtful stream-of-consciousness digest for the curious reader.

The Anarchist Zine Library is a free digital archive of anarchist and anarchic zines, books, and periodicals available for download, covering topics from labor rights and anti-capitalism to gender liberation and historical movements. Rebooted under azinelibrary.org, this beta platform lets visitors browse, search, and tag a growing collection of radical literature spanning decades of anarchist thought.

An archived 1995 HotWired article by Josh Quittner exploring the birth of 'Way New Journalism' and how the web might fundamentally transform media, publishing, and the economics of content distribution. A fascinating time capsule from the early commercial web, capturing the excitement and uncertainty journalists felt as digital publishing upended traditional print models.

The Papernet is a webring dedicated to connecting zinesters from around the world, welcoming physical and digital zines, distros, event organizers, and review blogs. It offers a member directory and simple instructions for joining via Webringo, making it a cozy hub for the indie zine community.

Bwamp is a quirky personal hub run by an indie creator offering zines, tapes, computer games, and a blob section alongside links to collaborators Blueberry Soft and Xenon Fiber. The mix of physical and digital media suggests a small DIY artist collective with an offbeat, lo-fi web aesthetic.

Fahrenheit is the oldest Polish internet magazine dedicated to speculative fiction, covering science fiction, fantasy, and horror with short stories, reviews, essays, and the prestigious Zew Zajdla award coverage. Visitors will find a rich archive of book and film reviews, original fiction, interviews, gaming coverage, and cultural commentary all presented in Polish.

Via Galactica is Croatia's first science fiction, fantasy, and horror e-fanzine, online since 1997 and still publishing despite hosting troubles. The site features issue archives, SF news, convention coverage, links to Croatian SF writers, and commentary on genre topics like Lord of the Rings.

Twilight Times is an award-winning digital ezine dedicated to speculative fiction, poetry, and fantasy artwork, publishing online since July 1998 under editor Lida E. Quillen. Visitors can browse quarterly issues featuring short stories, poems, and illustrated fiction from contributors spanning contemporary fantasy, horror, and science fiction.

An archived message from the Nettime mailing list, this page preserves the original 1995 call for the first net.time meeting, a landmark gathering that gave birth to one of the internet's most influential forums for net criticism and digital cultural politics. Posted by Geert Lovink, the document is historically significant as the earliest known mention of the nettime mailing list, connecting art, theory, and internet culture through events like the Venice Biennale.

A research guide from Olympic College Libraries compiling major physical and digital zine archives, from the Barnard Zine Library to the Queer Zine Archive Project and the Library of Congress Zine Web Archive. Students and researchers exploring zine culture will find curated links to hundreds of self-published works covering politics, art, creative writing, and counter-culture movements.