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- PPoff, on 10/12/2007, -3/+25Any ranking that ranks Vanity Fair over the greatest magazine of all time ... the Economist ... is not to be trusted.
- gusatron, on 10/12/2007, -1/+17They left off the best mag. ever "2600". The only thing on paper worth buying.
- deepdiggdude, on 10/12/2007, -9/+21Goodmagazine.com? Hah! This a is a sad attempt by an anemic, paper-wasting, landfill-clogging industry to spur interest in a audience that no longer needs their product.
A few facts:
Magazine production contributes extensively to deforestation. U.S. magazine production uses more than 2.2 million tons of paper per year, and this number is increasing as some sectors of the industry experience tremendous growth. Magazines are printed almost exclusively on papers made from virgin fiber, resulting in more than 35 million trees being cut down each year. Virgin magazine paper production also uses enormous amounts of energy and water, and produces considerably more pollution than ecological paper alternatives.
* Less than 5% of magazine paper has any recycled content, and even these recycled content papers generally contain only 10-30% recycled fiber. Almost all magazine papers have been bleached with chlorine or chlorine compounds, which produce extremely toxic dioxin.
* The vast majority of magazines are discarded within one year, and few of these are recycled. Approximately 90% of all magazines are discarded within a year of publication, and only about 20% of these are recycled. In 1998, approximately 18,000 magazine titles were published, producing a total of about 12 billion magazines; over 9 billion of these were landfilled or incinerated.
* Overproduction compounds the industry's impact. Inefficiencies begin with the publisher deliberately overproducing magazines to maximize advertising rates and are compounded by distributors over-ordering to ensure that no magazine rack is ever empty. Publishers rarely receive the kind of timely and accurate retail sales information needed to improve efficiency, and they have little economic incentive to reduce print runs, as the marginal cost of each magazine is relatively low (about 91 cents on average).
* Almost 3 billion magazines on newsstands are never read. About 4.7 billion magazines are delivered to newsstands each year. As a result of the above wasteful practices, about 2.9 billion of these are never read - enough magazines, placed end to end, to circle the Earth 20 times. - jcs_goog, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Where's "Compute"? I loved that magazine. There's nothing quite like typing in your own computer programs! Just imagine if the kids of today had to type in their own PSP/PS3/Wii programs... :)
- Majician, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6*****..... I didn't see MAXIM, nor STUFF, I'm kinda surprised CONSUMER REPORTS isn't in there some where. But for that list to not include MAXIM.......HERESY!
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7All these "best of" lists NEED to stop. Honest to god. Who gives a ***** about somebodys opinion in list form.
- ImYourRealDad, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Tiger Beat?
I deny this list. - HalFTW, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4New Scientist plz.
- Clark3934, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Where's Reader's Digest? Seriously, the jokes alone are enough to get it on the list.
- adam07, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Where the hell is TIME?
Is it part of Life or something? - sideshowjohn, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7The Economist considers themselves a newspaper.
- gwjc, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4I was just about to say, wtf no 2600, Mondo, The Dragon or even Omni (that should have at least been mainstream enough to make the cut).
- doctechnical, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3"The Dragon"?!? You mean TSR's Dungeons and Dragons house organ? Maybe back in the day (issues in the single and double digits), but it wound up spending so many editorial pages on box-set-of-the-month specific material that I lost interest bigtime. If you want a gaming magazine on the list, how about "The Space Gamer", or for the real old school, the Judges Guild offerings.
I'm with you on Omni. I miss that, they ran some really nice fiction. I remember reading "Burning Chrome" in there. - Trevino, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4@ deepdiggdude
Paper is a renewable resource. - maglob, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3NME is the best, how can you claim these are the best when NME which is a massive infulence on the music scene and is overlooked, should be renamed to 51 best magazines in America
- cyberdork, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3What about 'Seed'? Numerous of their stories made it to the digg frontpage last year.
- jstohler, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Graydon Carter should have put his own magazine Spy a lot higher.
- dorxincandeland, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3there is a "who dugg this" tab toward the top of the page... did that answer your question?
- thcobbs, on 10/12/2007, -4/+6@deepdigdude
That's why I'm doing my part to beat global warming....
I burn every magazine I have in hopes that the ash will help block out Sol and taper off this horrendous trend we are on(according to computer models). If everyone did the same, we could easily help the glaciers to start advancing once again! - doctechnical, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2It was good to see NatLamp and Whole Earth Catalog make it, I would have liked to see Creative Computing on there as well, but maybe that's a little too geeky.
- dominic2, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2thought Empire might be on there
- ssmith2k3, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I believe the article refers to Esquire from a certain time period (like 1963-1973 or close). Otherwise, you are probably right.
- zweben, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Esquire is 90% ads.... How can anyone read that thing? It's the size of a book and has about 4 pages of actual content.
- HappyMax, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I wonder if people who live outside of NYC read magazines? You wouldn't think so from this list.
- rgodfrey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I thought for sure Spy would be number one. It really is true that everything we think is funny these days owes its sensibilities to Spy.
- HappyMax, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3I think that's one of the problems with some of these magazines these days, and they wonder why circulation is so poor. They sound as if they are written for New Yorkers by New Yorkers.
You have these supposedly national magazines that have sections devoted to Manhattan restaurant reviews. Most of the country doesn't care. - martalli, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Newspaper or whatever they may call themselves, The Economist is truly one of the best news magazines of our time, going right back into the 19th century.
- Vokas, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I like list, so go ***** yourself. Don't tell me what to digg you commie.
- TomRemixed, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3I agree with RollingStone being only for the late 60s-70s because of two reasons.
1. a month ago Panic! At The ***** Disco was on the cover
2. this most recent issue has ***** Fall Out Boy on the cover.
the only reason I keep the subscription is because there have been recent issues that were very interesting but I can't stand some of the ***** they pull. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I'm going to have to respectfully disagree with Amiga Power. Amiga Format baby! Amiga User International wasn't bad either. Neither was RUN magazine, the best US C64 mag.
- Exploit, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Bull5hit!! there is no Reader's Digest on the list, possibly the best magazine of all times.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1None of the magazines I get are on here...
The Economist, FHM (well until they decided to stop printing), Maxim, Men's Health
Most of the magazines on this list are terrible, non entertaining rags. At least the stupid magazines I get are entertaining. And come on, The Economist is far and away the best weekly newsmag I've ever read. - doshindude, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2No Nintendo Power?
- review, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I'm glad to see Might on here. It deserves more appreciation than it gets.
- lofidan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Wot no Zzap 64?
http://www.zzap64.co.uk/
Wot no Amiga Power?
http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/ap2/ - samdu, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Any such list that doesn't include Mondo 2000 and The Door is invalid.
Though I do agree with many of the choices (good to see the original Details get some love, for instance). - nixfu, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2
I vote for Galaxy Science Fiction.... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galaxy_Science_Fiction
its THE ONE THAT STARTED it all. Galaxy is where all the big names got their start, Asimov, Matheson, Leiber...some of the greatest short stories ever written were published in that magazine and then immortalized on the EXCELLENT RADIO show X-MINUS-ONE.
Never listened to X-minus-One? If you own an IPOD...you owe it to yourself to check it out.. Nearly every episode is great. You can download them all here: http://www.archive.org/details/XMinus1_A
Besides...this article should be renamed to "Best 51 SELLING magazines that were ever distributed in grocery stores".... because that was obviously their criteria. - ggko, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Why not Tiger Beat?
It reports on rather disposable pop-idol culture, but it's managed to stay on the radar for over 4 decades. Where today is all the "great" computer magazines everyone here is arguing for? - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1No Zzap! magazine? ***** worthless.
- CompTechNSX, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Ugh.. you know you're a nerd when you came here to see if RUN made the list. :)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RUN [wikipedia] - juicebag, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The Edge should have won.
- optigon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12600 should have been on there.
I agree that Wired has gone downhill. I stopped my subscription in 1999.
Probably one of the best magazines I've read recently is Mental Floss. Not necessarily Tech-oriented, but it's got enough random information to keep you well-rounded and knowledgeable about a bit of everything. - ggko, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1To computer geeks perhaps, Commodore geeks specifically. (Yes, I know they later produced editions for other platforms.) In its heydey, just about every magazine had type in programs.* The Apple // was my machine, so Compute! was of little use to me. Nibble was *the* computer magazine.
*FIrst time I saw Byte magazine, I thought, "where's the programs?" - Mike.ohara, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1no Popular Science? No Automobile?, no 2600?, hmmm and half of these mags are not even in circulation anymore....
I call shenanigans! - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1maybe because it's only been around for one year
- fluentinsilence, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I highly agree with suggestion 8 for Wired. I have virtually every issue from its inception to present time and it "jumped" out of the 50th floor window when Condé Nast moved in to buy it. Alas, I still read it though.
- bias, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1WTF, Flaunt is not on the list!?
- AugustZephyr, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Anyone surprised at number 4?
- vanillafudge, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Nah, all wrong... Crash mag for the ZX Spectrum, now we're talking...
Or does anyone remember the ill-fated Big K magazine? - mojo0510, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Where's Hustler?
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