Hi Darren, Well, I do agree with you for the most part. Although, regarding a podcast I think that is something that should be considered as an addition to the magazine rather than an absolute replacement for the magazine. Not everyone can record a decent podcast, but everyone can write and submit an article, review, or news release for the magazine. However, I do think how it is delivered does need to change.
For one thing for most of its existence there wasn't a dedicated website etc for Audyssey. The editor simply gathered together everything for that issue of the magazine and sent it out as a text file via the list. That was okay way back when, but times have changed. We now have a dedicated website and plenty of space to design a fully functional webzine written in HTML with links to articles, reviews, letters to the editor, and so forth. We can add professional formatting to the webzine so it is more user friendly for sighted readers. We can setup groups on social media sites like Facebook and Twitter with links to the magazine and/or news articles when they become available. In short, there is a lot we can do besides just mail it to the list and hope whoever reads it. Cheers! On 10/29/13, Darren Harris <[email protected]> wrote: > a podcast would be better because then you could for example demo certain > games on the podcast and let the demo's speak for themselves. > > as dark pointed out and as i have said several times over the years audyssey > faled to bring in more readers because of it's lack of exposure to the wider > world. > > as for people who are off list, well forums are the way to go i really think > this. mailing lists are so clunky in comparison to forums. most people these > days don't want to be bombarded with emails. so you can pretty much > guarantee that whilst the mag did offer quite a bit of content the list > content that ended up on the mag would be of little interest. > > to be honest with you audiogames.net is doing a far better job than audyssey > ever did. because audio games are a little more recognised than lets say > games for the blind as a tag name, it's worked in our favour. we have some > blind and some sighted people on there for example. it's slowly and surely > increasing awareness i think, which the mag in it's old/currant format faled > to do. because for the most part it was only list subscribers and a few mag > only subs that actually got it. whereas audiogames.net appears on google and > other places as well. it's reasonably well represented. > > > > if the mag did come back then some serious work would need to be done in > order to give it exposure. it isn't acceptible to simply chuck it out there > and hope someone happens to read it. > > Sent from my iPad --- Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [email protected]. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [email protected].
