Ask YC: What are some good Geek Magazines?

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by mannylee1 • 17 years ago

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What are some good Geek Magazines?

noodle• 17 years ago

make. wired. scientific american. popular science. popular mechanics. national geographic. smithsonian. 2600.

tokenadult• 17 years ago

The Economist.

silentbicycle• 17 years ago

Games and Cook's Illustrated are both recommended, for those for whom geek doesn't automatically mean "computers".

joe_bleau• 17 years ago

Circuit Cellar Ink, Electronic Musician, Design News, Machine Design, EDN, Electronic Design, Embedded Systems Design, R&D Magazine, EE Times. (Many of these are trade rags, free to people 'in the biz'.)

jacquesm• 17 years ago

dr. dobbs about 15 years ago...

Really, I think that the 'geek' stuff is now either online or dying out rapidly, as someone else here remarked yesterday the print industry is dying. I know it isn't quite there yet but I expect daily news, weeklies a and monthly periodicals to succumb in that order, not sure about real books though, they may hang around for a lot longer.

The more timely the delivery of your content the bigger the threat from the online media is. Sure there are plenty of magazines left, but it remains to be seen how much longer they will last. It would be an interesting poll to see how many of the people frequenting HN still get their media fix in paper format.

I've cancelled my last subscription to any 'geek' magazine other than Scientific American years ago. And even that is available online now...

frisco• 17 years ago

Seed (http://seedmagazine.com/). Tagline is "Science is Culture." It's very young; it just kind of came out of nowhere a year or two ago and started doing really, really good work. It's really content-dense, unlike Wired is now, and aimed at a more technical crowd.

hapless• 17 years ago

Harper's.

The modern magazine is a wild mixture of topical essays, edgy literature, and book reviews. You really never know what you're going to get, but you can count on it being inflammatory.

As an added bonus, the (very inexpensive) subscription comes with archives access - everything back to the 19th century beginning.

yan• 17 years ago

Scientific American Mind. The Economist (Not geek per se, but I challenge you to find a better analysis of the world). The Edge (edge.org)

Ask YC: What are some good Geek Magazines?

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