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Who remembers The Word magazine?
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I want a Word with you!
The roots of this website are rooted in the Word Magazine blog/The Word Massive. Loads of that original online community have dropped away over the years and gone to Twitter or elsewhere and I’m wondering how strong that connection with Word Magazine and The Afterword still is, particularly given that David Hepworth and Mark Ellen have been very active during the past year with Word In Your Ear. In the early days of this website I got the distinct impression the ex-Word writers wanted nothing to do with it and apart from Mark joining in for a podcast there was very little interaction, and when WIYE got going it certainly didn’t have any connection to this site as I can tell. I don’t post or follow this “Forum” (ffs) so much these days so I wonder if there are many of us from the Word blog days left. Are any Afterworders on the WIYE Patreon? Have any of you paid to have Mark and Dave interview you on your Birthday?!
David and Mark on Patreon
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So David Hepworth and Mark Ellen are milking/monetising their public podcasting relationship.
I have to say I still find them entertaining (partly because I’m in their age group) and they talk so well together.
And while I enjoy the WIYE podcasts I find myself baulking at paying up at these rates. 3 quid a month for a mention? 5 quid a month to get it a day before anyone else. Not bloody likely! Etc…
OTOH I do like the old buggers, and while Hepworth is irritating as always, he does have a way with words. And I keep listening to their rantings.
Anyone else??
The Word magazine online
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Subscribers used to have access to an online version of The Word magazine. I was one of these subscribers. Does anyone know if these are available anywhere? If not, could some kind soul put them up on a website somewhere? Might need David Hepworth’s permission.
I do not have any physical copies any more and it would be good to revisit some old issues.
Happy 10th Birthday The Word/Afterword Blog
This week marks the 10th anniversary of The Word blog, which begat The Afterword. The Word magazine website existed already and readers could comment on topics set by the magazine writers but the major change in 2007 was that readers could start their own 'blog' to create topics and posts in a format which remains pretty much unchanged in the site as you see it now. Here's a screengrab of the page with Mr Hepworth announcing the new service and telling us to expect the same “high standard of banter and the well-informed, well-mannered exchange of amusement, erudition and entertainment” – On the whole, I think we've stuck to that brief even without the Magazine to orbit around and I think this is worth celebrating, so Happy Birthday and Long Live The (After)Word.
https://web.archive.org/web/20071012014351/http://www.wordmagazine.co.uk:80/
In the beginning was The Word…
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Since we re-booted the site you good people have made 1,079 posts and 18,821 comments so we’ve built up a good head of steam I think. During the rebuilding of the site a lot of techie challenges we’ve encountered are due to the somewhat quirky foundations on which this site was built. We are a strange hybrid of social network, blog, online forum/message board and online magazine (reviews we write sometimes get cited in artists publicity!). We have doggedly stuck to the ‘blog & comment’ format which is one of the reasons it’s difficult to implement some of features you want as it’s a bit unorthodox nowadays, but to me it’s crucial to the DNA of the site and separates us from a mere ‘forum’. I was a relative latecomer to The Word site, I think I started posting mid 2009 so I’m a bit unclear as to the early days, did it start as a blog written by the staff which you commented on? Has anyone on here been blogging on the Word site right from the off?
