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Communal Planning Page For ZiP02
This is an open and transparent page for anyone who wants to be part of the second issue of ZiP: Zine in Progress You are encouraged to post your ideas, suggestions, and comments. It's an online complement to the weekly zine planning meetings we're starting at Noisebridge (see front page).
ZiP02 will come out on April Fool's Day (April 1st), 2012.
Format
ZiP01 was folio print on letter (8.5x11)
ZiP02 will be.....? Proposal: quarto print on tabloid (11x17)
We want to experiment with format, style, size, layout until we find something that feels like the official ZiP style. Or maybe there never will be an official ZiP style - it will be constantly evolving, changing, mutating, like memes, like Noisebridge, like life itself.
Here is some info on ways to fold & format zines for print
Articles / Features / Topics
Coverage of nullcon, Global Android Dev, Black Hat Europe conferences
Robotics + 3D Printing + "stone alchemy" From NB Discuss: "The Man Who Prints Houses"
French hacktivists who happily promote Entropy http://breizh-entropy.org/?page_id=235
blog.hackerspaces.org
c-base http://c-base.org/
Hackupy wall Street http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/Hackupy
http://hackable-devices.org/planet/user/22/ Einhorn - "unicorn" in German
WORD HACKING Finnegans Wake Lewis Carroll neologisms, made-up words (ZiPLingo)
Weird wild digital collage art by Mark Skwarek http://www.markskwarek.com/
Article on the line between hacker/zinester creative theft & borrowing vs. plagiarism & unoriginality
Comic strip: The Noisebridge Muppet Show (Tony has great ideas for this, but needs a skilled illustrator to collaborate with!)
Investigative Report on Robot-Human violence (humor)
Earthquake article / seismology (Tony + anyone else)
Article on Hacker Personality and how you can have it even if you're not a computer programmer at all - pranks, delinquency, elaborate practical jokes like the ones described in the Jargon
Columns / Sections or regular features
Print at least one page per issue in some kind of code or cipher
Reviews of reviews (tongue in cheek, post-meta-whatever journalism thing: write a brief capsule review of a review in a newspaper or magazine)