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Longshot! 5 Lessons From Longshot, a Magazine Made in 48 Hours - Alexis Madrigal - Technology. Weekends bring out the avocation in people. Some rock-climb. Other people play in basketball leagues. Hobbyists build robots. My friends and I make magazines. I co-founded Longshot Magazine with Mat Honan and Sarah Rich a few months ago. Our mission: to occasionally come together to write, edit, design, and ship a magazine in 48 hours. We accept contributions from all over the world and do it all with basically no money. Everything we do is made possible by the new (free) technological tools out there. Lesson 1: Magcloud makes it possible. Magcloud is a print-on-demand service run by HP. Lesson 2: Twitter makes it work.Twitter is the social ligature of our project, and (I would say) of creatives more generally. The thing about Twitter is that it's interest-based, but the cost of following someone is low, so you tend to branch out beyond your tight work circle and your friend network.
Lesson 3: Workflow matters more than tools, but the tools help define your workflow. MagCloud | The Best New Magazines, Printed on Demand by HP. Public Knowledge Project. Scribd.