Thu. 08/20 - Zines & Floppy Disks: Making a 2020 Comeback?
Cool Stuff Daily
Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff
4.6 • 739 Ratings
🗓️ 20 August 2020
⏱️ 16 minutes
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| 0:28.7 | welcome to the cocky ride home for th, August 20th, 2020. I'm Jackson Bird. |
| 0:42.4 | Talking about lots of old media today, Vice wants to send you physical zines through the United States Postal Service. |
| 0:50.5 | It turns out a number of industries are still using floppy disks, a new online database |
| 0:57.0 | 50 years in the making and created by Julia Child's former neighbor, and some crop art |
| 1:04.3 | celebrating vice presidential nominee Kamala Harris. Here are some of the cool things from the news today. |
| 1:14.0 | The U.S. Postal Service has been making headlines and going viral around social media |
| 1:19.1 | for the past couple of weeks as attention turns to the need for mail-in voting and the efforts |
| 1:24.5 | of some politicians to block that service. Now, Vice is doing something that a decade or so |
| 1:31.0 | ago wouldn't be extraordinary at all. They're going to send their news to people via snail mail, |
| 1:38.2 | specifically using USPS. Called the Mail, and run by Vice's motherboard team led by senior staff writer Aaron Gordon, |
| 1:47.1 | it will be a weekly newsletter on all things USPS. |
| 1:51.7 | There will be a free digital version via substack, |
| 1:54.7 | but for $8, you can get a print version sent to your mailbox. |
| 1:59.3 | The print version will just be going out once a month and only through November, but it |
| 2:03.2 | sounds like it'll be pretty cool. |
| 2:05.2 | With art and heavy design work, they're billing it as a zine. |
| 2:09.3 | And those paid subscribers will also get extra digital content as well. |
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