Live-tweeting my reading of this book about golden age sci fi (~1930s-50s) here, which strikes me as very similar to blogosphere in aughts and 10s. But now meta-wondering about other pillars of modern mainstream culture that grew out of pulp magazine genres in that period.https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1233210973793574912 …
They were reduced to digest size by WW2 paper rationing. That’s the size I’ve read. Old Reader’s Digests from the 1950s/1960s. Ellery Queen mystery magazine, etc. I’d say each digest = 2-3 months of ribbonfarm in word count. If ribbonfarm were a pulp digest it’d be a quarterly.
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2020s of blogosphere will be like 1950s of pulp magazines. Greatest decade as well as last decade. Okay, now gotta go read about the glossies.
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