A look back at City Life and a forward to Manchester Online map
Two very different experiences of Manchester media have been launched online today.
First a mighty map of the city’s online world was unearthed by journalist David Quinn – but has now been taken away.
Although not quite intended for public consumption, many of those featured on it (including me) had already been merrily clicking away and sharing on twitter this morning.
It’s a shame it’s now been removed as I’m sure the feedback and fault correcting being sent to creators Marketing Manchester will be invaluable before the public launch. I look forward to its resurrection……
In the meantime, there’s a lovely bit of nostalgia from Andy Spinoza posting on HowDo about the heady past of the independent City Life magazine, back in the day.
“Now anyone can publish their views online, but back then DIY publishing meant a xeroxed fanzine or printed fortnightly magazine like ours, selling ads to theatres, nightclubs, bookshops and vegetarian wholefood co-ops as means of funding our own view, for our own readership, on this city. Even the cheapest fanzine could not give content for free; it was the means of publishing the content which cost, and that had to covered.”
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