Calling all geeks! Time launched a new website yesterday just for you (yes, another tech blog!). Techland, the spinoff from Time’s three-year-old Nerd World blog, is muscling itself into an already-crowded category. Its hand-selected editorial staff might be its saving grace, though. It’s led by Time tech editor Peter Ha, who up until September was an editor for TechCrunch’s gadget blog, CrunchGear. Other contributors include Matt Selman, who has written episodes of Seinfeld and The Simpsons, and professional writers/journalists Lev Grossman, Tracey John, and Steven James Snyder.
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This week, a group of editors and designers launched Sight Unseen, a web magazine that’s dedicated to the lifestyle of modern design. It features content on art, fashion, food, and photography, book excerpts, peeks into studios and factories, and special spotlights on what designers are buying and keeping in their homes. “Through revealing interviews, first-person accounts, and behind-the-scenes documentation of process, Sight Unseen uncovers the stories, inspirations, and obsessions of people who love to make things.” The site was created by Monica Khemsurov and Jill Singer, two former editors at I.D., and designed by Thomas Porostocky, another I.D. alum best known for his infographics for Good, Wired, and Seed.
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A fashion blogger is taking her online posts to the next level with the launch of a digital magazine called Style Sample Magazine, scheduled to be released next Monday. It’s the first magazine specifically for and about fashion bloggers—meaning all the content is about, and contributed by, fashion bloggers and online fashion entrepreneurs. Its goal? “To recognize and promote independent fashion bloggers and reinforce the legitimacy of the medium.” Publisher and editor in chief Tamia Stinson, who writes the fashion blog The Style Sample, says, “I started to see the need for the magazine when I realized how many fashion blogs are out there and how quickly the community is growing.” Check it out.
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