Hear/Say

3. Your second post has to do with Identity. Find a blog or website that deals with Identity. Be as creative as you’d like. Essentially, we’re going to build a “blogroll” for our magazine. A list of interesting/related/useful links that we want to offer up to readers.  Write a one sentence description about the site and hyperlink to it. Then, in that same post, write a few paragraphs explaining your hope/goal for our magazine: the kind of content you’d like to see.  Review our story budget. Are there stories there that seem ideal for the magazine. Do you have other ideas to pitch? Think of the audience you want to pitch to. Essentially, I want you to start moving from your one story and start thinking about the class project.

I think the Daily might be doing a story on them, but I’m sure we can make it better.Not to diss the Daily, Nichole– but because I believe our intensive collaboration will make it that much more interesting and in-depth.They’re a larger group of people with a common belief, but it’s relevant to our situation especially considering the latest wave of “UW CRIMINAL NOTIFICATION” e-mails everyone has been receiving. This would be specific enough to interest people as we address current events, but the audience has a mass appeal: college students, staff working at UW, faculty, parents, family…

http://www.hipsterrunoff.com

Hipster Runoff is a sub-culture in itself. Not only does it attempt to represent the “hip”, “ironic” generation of youth that attempts to rebel so much they conform, it’s immaculate design reflects that of the Internet/meme/viral marketing culture.

For our magazine: I want to divorce our theme with any cliches if possible. That’s the scary thing about working with such a broad theme. Although it’s vague enough to project multi-facted stories, it will take vigilince and perseverance on the part of our reporters to search and find those stories that don’t tell us what we already know. That seems like an incredibly obvious thing to say, but it’s true: it’s difficult to seek out what we don’t know.

Personal human face stories are easy to fall into, because “everyone is unique”; while that’s true, we have to sell our stories as incredible, different, interesting, enlightening. No, not even sell– our stories HAVE to be incredible, different, interesting, and enlightening. I’d love stories that are engaging as well as in-depth. It will be a struggle because with the Internet, attention spans are shorter as audiences are choosing the content they’d like to review, instead of simply being presented with what others deem as “interesting and relevant”.

I want to reiterate our other theme ideas, since they seem to be great inspirations in terms of creative flow. Identity as a theme makes me think a little narrower than I’d like (i.e. stereotypes of people), but what about a group of people?

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