Per WorldChanging, Whole Earth Review (nee' CoEvolution Quarterly) has given up their office space, stopped paying a number of creditors, and the usual 'business closing' activities. There's no shame in that; it happens regularly, and I trust they are doing this in as honorable manner as possible.

But it is sad to see them close again, after the bold experiments which succeeded (the magazine's long run, which I'm not trying to aggregate for my project; the catalogs that influenced a number of sibling's and fellow-travellers, the Well, etc) and didn't (Signal was a flash, but I'm not sure the cross from print coverage to new media was successful).

The time is still ripe for my project, which is to trace the inbound and outbound links of the collection of ideas that made CoEQ/WER such a success. To Begin.....

(initial citation at BoingBoing.... where else?)

Posted by esinclai at January 24, 2004 11:05 AM |