On Saturday I joined an IndieWeb pop up about zines, hosted by Morgan. The meetup was about both zines and the intersection of zines and personal websites – the affordances of each medium, how the mediums compare, where the mediums intersect, and more. I helped take notes (notes available on the community wiki) and, looking back, I realise it was hard to keep up with all the discussion: there was so much to explore!Toward the beginning of the event, we had a discussion about how we found, and find, zines. This discussion made me realise that, firstly, I cannot remember exactly when I encountered zines, and second, zines seem to come to me. I have found zines through people’s personal websites (i.e. Ava’s wonderful zine about personal websites and the law), through discussions with people who have websites and also like zines, by going into a bookstore (Typewronger in Edinburgh in particular) and seeing a shelf of zines for sale. Shortly after the meetup, I went to the Bear Blog…
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