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(Message started by: Kevin Cryan on Today at 10:15)

Title: Clive does it again.
Post by Kevin Cryan on Today at 10:15
Very soon after I began reading Clive's essays regularly, his writing was instrumental in turning newly-founded London Review of Books (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Review_of_Books) into a less stuffy and altogether more entertaining alternative to the The Times Literary Supplement (http://tls.timesonline.co.uk/), and the literary magazine to get hold of.  

Now, if my fellow-countrymen Joe Griffin (http://www.siliconrepublic.com/contributors/index.html) of the online Irish technology and news service magazine, Silicon Republic (http://www.siliconrepublic.com/), is to be believed,  Clive's various contributions appear to be helping to do very much the same kind of thing (http://www.siliconrepublic.com/news/news.nv?storyid=single8887) for the fledgling American online magazine Slate (http://slate.com/).

It must be rewarding for him to think that even now there are some new furrows left to plough.


Kevin Cryan




Title: Re: Clive does it again.
Post by BogusTrumper on 04.08.07 at 16:16

on 07/30/07 at 10:15:28, Kevin Cryan wrote :
 Clive's various contributions appear to be helping to do very much the same kind of thing (http://www.siliconrepublic.com/news/news.nv?storyid=single8887) for the fledgling American online magazine Slate (http://slate.com/).



I am not sure I would call Slate "fledgling".  It has been around over a decade and I thought ot was pretty well known  :)

Title: Re: Clive does it again.
Post by Kevin Cryan on 05.08.07 at 10:12
I think that as an online magazine, it can still be categorised a fledgling. Yes, I should have been clearer about what I actually meant.


Kevin Cryan

Title: Re: Clive does it again.
Post by BogusTrumper on 05.08.07 at 19:46
Slate's early awards:

Top 100 sites from PC Magazine, 2000

National Magazine Award Finalist "General Excellence in New Media," 1999

Brill's Content "Best of the Web 1999," April 1999

Yahoo! Internet Life "Best of the Best" Web Sites, January 1999

Columbia Journalism Review "Ten Best Editors 2000" Michael Kinsley, 2000

;D



Title: Re: Clive does it again.
Post by Kevin Cryan on 05.08.07 at 21:40
This full list (http://img.slate.com/id/2078017/) of awards  is even more impressive and probably proves your point.  

However, I still think that the addition of the likes of Clive and Christopher Hitchins to its  its roster of contributers has given Slate a prestiege that has lacked. It now means that it is in there seriously competing for attention of a readership which would normally buy The New York Review of Books (http://www.nybooks.com/) or The New Yorker (http://www.newyorker.com/). Would you agree?


Kevin Cryan

Title: Re: Clive does it again.
Post by BogusTrumper on 07.08.07 at 04:29

on 08/05/07 at 21:40:40, Kevin Cryan wrote :
This full list (http://img.slate.com/id/2078017/) of awards  is even more impressive and probably proves your point.  

However, I still think that the addition of the likes of Clive and Christopher Hitchins to its  its roster of contributers has given Slate a prestiege that has lacked. It now means that it is in there seriously competing for attention of a readership which would normally buy The New York Review of Books (http://www.nybooks.com/) or The New Yorker (http://www.newyorker.com/). Would you agree?


Kevin Cryan


Absolutely agreed



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