48HR Magazine: Using New Tools To Erase Old Media’s Limits

The 48 Hour Magazine is a real time online collaboration among writers, artists and publishers which aims to “write, photograph, illustrate, design, edit, and ship a magazine in two days.” The site will take writing and photography submissions from anyone who can submit their work in 24 hours, with the next day spent on editing, producing and shipping the magazine. The entire production process will be streamed online.

From their site:

Here’s how it works: Issue Zero begins May 7th. We’ll unveil a theme and you’ll have 24 hours to produce and submit your work. We’ll take the next 24 to snip, mash and gild it. The end results will be a shiny website and a beautiful glossy paper magazine, delivered right to your old-fashioned mailbox. We promise it will be insane. Better yet, it might even work. Writers and artists from some of your favorite publications like Rolling Stone, Wired, Dwell, Gizmodo, GOOD, Lapham’s Quarterly, HiLoBrow, Fray, Paleofuture, and The Rumpus have already signed up. Mainly because we promise that this thing will be fun. No long commitments. No pitches. No grinding editing process. You make good stuff fast; we publish it with other good stuff.

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