The Washington Post has an interesting story about the past, present, and future of zines and their sort of kinda transformation into blogs. This article could be useful in class for helping students get a sense of blogging's genealogy.

Thought this quote was a bit provocative:

Chip Rowe summarizes the movement of zines onto the Web thusly: "Fanzines became paper zines became webzines became blogs. That's where we are now." But he's not just being blithe. He sees in the current blog craze something akin to the paper zine craze of the early '90's. "The same spirit is there," Rowe says. "Everybody feels powerless to one degree or another and is looking to get some kind of reaction. They want people to care about what they think. It's heartening seeing blogs, even if a lot of them will go away as the novelty wears off."

Despite Rowe's claims, apparently there are still a number of folks churning out zines at Kinkos. Anyone here stilling zinning as well as blogging? Or any stories of the "good old days?"