Guys, remember Matt Davis? Former Mercury News Editor, general rabble-rouser? He moved back to jolly ol’ wherever-he’s-from not too long ago, and now he’s Kickstarting a project that sounds pretty cool: It’s a magazine called The Luddite dedicated to all-things analogue. He’s raising money on Kickstarter to fund it, an irony that the pitch addresses:
Matt has a message for the people of Blogtown:
“I miss you all. And I am sorry that I was such a horrible blog troll to you all. But now I realise that I had a TECHNOLOGY ILLNESS. And I have invented the cure.
“Also please give me some money.”
Good ol’ Matt Davis.
Yep, that sounds like Matt Davis all right.
WAIT, UGH, YOU DIDN’T SAY ANYTHING ABOUT THAT KICKSTARTER BEING MEASURED IN BRITISH POUNDS.
ha, i started to, then decided i was too lazy to look up the character code for the pound sign. BUSTED
Who could possibly say no to hipster Viking weightlifters and newborns getting hit in the head with iPhones?
Don’t answer that.
Bloguetown is not analogue, soue souerry.
Wait, so that whole get-in-touch-with-the-downtrodden-poorfolk thing down in New Orleans didn’t work out?
Everybody knows blogtown wouldn’t exist without the super smart midgets that know how to make electricity from fermented pig shit.
I love a nice bulleted bl-esponse:
•I love you all. And blimey. A few people actually did give me some money! Thanks for the Blogtown love, guys. Oh, the irony. Technology. The Internet. Money. Woohoo!
•British £’s are ‘Option’+’#’ on your American keyboards. And £12 is about $17 at today’s rate. Sorry I know it’s expensive. But this project is a bit experimental and we have to pay people for their hard work. Actually it’s probably best to just donate $100 and then you can be sure you paid for the international postage.
•Chunty: New Orleans worked out great on the journalism front. Thanks for asking! Mainly focused on criminal justice issues. Didn’t do too well with managing my personal life down there, though, but that’s always been a little turbulent, innit. All much better now, back in London. Might come back to the U.S. someday. Who knows. Got my citizenship just in case.
•Thanks again everyone!!!
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-Wow, so it takes a post about Matt Davis to get all you old commenters back here? I miss him as much as the next troll, but stop by the comments section once in a while.
-I will probably give you some money for this. Mostly because I’ve always liked your jib cut.
-How do I pound sign on the iPads?
You can take the man out of Portland…..
I kid (and give) because I love.
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NEVERMIND FOUND IT
I would rather give money to Miley Cyrus.
And what better time to start a print magazine? Good luck with that.