| COFFEEHOUSE CULTURE -- Issue 1 | ||
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PAGE ONE; ARTICLE ONE; EDITORIAL
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| WELCOME to the first web issue of Coffeehouse Culture. With a little help from the pixels at the bottom of our garden, we have finally made it. And this time around we are going to do it better. This time around? In case you do not know, Coffeehouse Culture started its life as a paper publication produced in Amsterdam. One issue was produced and 15,000 copies were distributed in Amsterdam and the UK. Many of them are now probably lining cat litters in both places. This, however, is not a paper publication (touch your screen if you do not believe us.) Nor is it totally the same as the paper version. Some stories have been left out because of new material. (All the new stuff is flagged so you know what is what.) And inevitably there have been changes in the format and layout. For all the changes, we have tried to retain the overall 'feel' of the paper version. This is a marriage of a paper publication to a new medium. Something old, something new, something borrowed, something brown. And there you have Coffeehouse Culture. But, and it is a big 'but', this is the web. You know that extraordinary-interactive-multimedia-all-bells-and-whistles thingy. Not much of that here, we're afraid. Coffeehouse Culture was, as is the nature of paper publications, text-based and was, therefore, only marginally interactive and then exclusively on a cerebral level. Coffeehouse Culture was designed to be read sitting comfortably with a joint on the go and a cup of coffee to hand. Inter-inactivity, as it were. But! That word again. All this will change. So far as multimedia interactivity goes, the site will have plenty of that. And, philistines that we are, we will be sullying even the pages of this pristine journal with cheap (but not in the time they take to download) gimmicks and those picture things. If the download times overwhelm your boredom threshold, turn off 'graphics' in your browser for a faster but less aesthetically pleasing experience. Soon we will coming up with not only a text-only version but a PDF so you can print out Coffeehouse Culture and, maybe, read it with a joint on the go and a cup of coffee to hand. In making the transition to the web we have tried to create a balance between the text and the bells-and-whistles stuff. That is why the Coffeehouse Culture site is a much broader enterprise than merely an e-zine. Even within this section of the site we will try to offer slightly more than just text and pictures. And as we gain increasing mastery over this web mystery, the interactivity will increase. Although Coffeehouse Culture might have something important to say, it was never set up to be anything more than an entertainment for those with the same interests as the editor and other contributors. And there is much more scope for entertainment on the web. |
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