Regarding the interest level for the three web journals I proposed last week, the results are now in.
I received input from 19 different people, the results of which can be summarized as: Close Reading -- 7 expressed an interest in providing content, 1 indicated there was a print journal doing this, and 1 pointed me to their own blog doing something similar. Instantiation -- 9 expressed an interest in providing content, 1 indicated a principled refusal to issue manifestos. subgenres -- 3 expressed an interest in editing a specific category, 1 indicated that their notion of a subgenre was more content-driven than my examples, and 1 indicated that this one would be the most fun of the three to read. So, the end result is that I'm just not seeing sufficient interest in these to justify the effort at this time. Instead, I'll use the time I'd been planning to allocate to these things on a few projects that are more individual than community oriented...the upside to being an idea factory is that there's never really a shortage of things to work on. I would like to thank everyone who responded for their input, it helped me determine where my resources will be best spent. Regards, Dan
