Yet the paper and printing costs stay the same, so does the time consumed if you want to put out something decent…

((I kept my reply short this time because I gotta go — Cya!))

You FIRST check the Vint Falken folder in your RSS reader, and only then you may go see if there’s anything in the RL inbox for you! ;)

And over time, funding is an issue. Start up capital is great, but island costs and printing costs stay as long as there is a magazine. So after a while, there should be some generation of income too. Not necessarily to make a profit, but at least to not make a loss. The best Belgian RL magazine - Deng, and first Mao - died over this. :( (And no, it was not a communist magazine. Just a mix between serious investigation, interesting subjects and a whole lot of lovely irony. *Cherishes her copy of the ‘Lijntje’ edition which had to be taken out of rotation because Mr. Dirk Bruna did not understand the difference between ‘copyright violation’ and ‘parody’.*

Though i’ll miss that experience of clicking on the little RSS icon for Brief (an RSS reader for Firefox), and reading the news. Reading through in a dash if I see “VintFalken.com (NUMBER)” ;-). Plus, blogs are faster. Engadget, for example, publish something about a gadget every 15-30 minutes, so when I get home I see *DING* “Engadget (70)“, though 90% of that now is irrelevant. Anyway, what I meant to say is that, with all those writers, and the fact that online blogs do way less impact on our real world, makes me much happier :-). Imagine sending a paper after a huge process, getting someone’s comment by mail, re-publishing, and so on… THAT’S ANNOYING! In blogs, especially ones powered by AJAX, it’s *clickity click* *click* *DING* “Comment sent!” *Comment pops up under the last one*.