Reader Content Updates This Old House

June is "Readers Going Mainstream" month over at This Old House.  The name may indicate a bygone era comfort space, but the mag is going thoroughly modern and outside the comfort zone by temporarily renaming its June edition to "This Your House" signaling an issue entirely of content from its readers. 

From One Room Wonders to Salvage, the issue is 100% about, by and from readers - they even voted on the magazine cover image.

Now, reader content in print magazines isn't 100% new - 8020 Publishing has brought us "you" magazines JPG and Everwhere on photography and travel, respectively, for a couple of years.  8020 believes magazines are great inspiration and the web has great content. A hybrid to warm our modern media hearts.

This Your House may be an experiment, but we suspect that for a TV-show-gone-print, reader content is will prove to be a high-value modern remodel.

OhmyNews: Citizen Journalism

"Citizen Journalism," where average people report the news, is the future of the free press. Publications like OhmyNews in South Korea are changing the definition of what a journalist is, and changing the industry as whole. Look for "citizen media" to explode in 2005, with more big newspaper blogs, as well as aggregated local blogs reporting on news closer to local communities.

Reader Content Updates This Old House

June is "Readers Going Mainstream" month over at This Old House.  The name may indicate a bygone era comfort space, but the mag is going thoroughly modern and outside the comfort zone by temporarily renaming its June edition to "This Your House" signaling an issue entirely of content from its readers. 

From One Room Wonders to Salvage, the issue is 100% about, by and from readers - they even voted on the magazine cover image.

Now, reader content in print magazines isn't 100% new - 8020 Publishing has brought us "you" magazines JPG and Everwhere on photography and travel, respectively, for a couple of years.  8020 believes magazines are great inspiration and the web has great content. A hybrid to warm our modern media hearts.

This Your House may be an experiment, but we suspect that for a TV-show-gone-print, reader content is will prove to be a high-value modern remodel.

OhmyNews: Citizen Journalism

"Citizen Journalism," where average people report the news, is the future of the free press. Publications like OhmyNews in South Korea are changing the definition of what a journalist is, and changing the industry as whole. Look for "citizen media" to explode in 2005, with more big newspaper blogs, as well as aggregated local blogs reporting on news closer to local communities.