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| Hi all, it's been a bit of time since I last posted, and some things have been happening with BrickJournal. Staff The BrickJournal staff has been expanded and is as follows: Joe Meno, Editor/Publisher Jim Foulds, Assistant Editor Geoff Gray, Photo (...) (19 years ago, 30-Jul-05, to lugnet.publish.brickjournal, lugnet.general, FTX) !!
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| (...) Ya. It was just a gentle ribbing, don't take me too seriously. I love the Rev's work. He is probably the current record holder for the Most Interviewed AFOL though. You should get him to actually write an article - that'd be worth reading. (...) (19 years ago, 29-Jun-05, to lugnet.publish.brickjournal, FTX)
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| (...) You do have the advantage of an inside line to the company though. Those are the bits I found most interesting. Stuff on the development of themes and models would be fascinating. (...) That would be super. The stuff on actual building was (...) (19 years ago, 29-Jun-05, to lugnet.publish.brickjournal, FTX)
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| (...) Thanks, Joe! One of the challenges BrickJournal faces is trying to stay timely, given that I am making this quarterly. Because of the lengthy period between issues and the nature of the typical AFOL (wanting to find out things that are (...) (19 years ago, 29-Jun-05, to lugnet.publish.brickjournal, FTX)
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| (...) Allister, My quick answer is: Yes! Actually, BrickJournal is meant to be both a magazine for reference for AFOLs and a magazine for the general public to see and possibly join the community. It could be said that the mag is slightly (...) (19 years ago, 29-Jun-05, to lugnet.publish.brickjournal, FTX)
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| (...) Thanks, George! Tell me what you think of the articles! Joe ed./pub, BrickJournal (19 years ago, 29-Jun-05, to lugnet.publish.brickjournal, FTX)
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| (...) Just as another data point, I don't agree -- I read it cover-to-cover and while I did know some of the content already, much of it was new, and it was all enjoyable reading. Best, Joe (19 years ago, 28-Jun-05, to lugnet.publish.brickjournal, FTX)
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| (...) Nice one, but geez, yet another interview with Brendan Powell Smith ;) Just wondering though; is it intended to be a magazine for AFOLs or about AFOLs? If it's the former, there's not a lot in there that we don't know already, and if it's the (...) (19 years ago, 27-Jun-05, to lugnet.publish.brickjournal, FTX)
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| (...) Yup. I'm not sure how well it'll work for a file this small, but it is exactly what it was designed for. (19 years ago, 25-Jun-05, to lugnet.publish.brickjournal, lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| (...) The first thing I thought when I saw this article on Slashdot is were is the torrent. I mean isn't this the situation the Bittorrent is designed to solve? Derek (19 years ago, 25-Jun-05, to lugnet.publish.brickjournal, lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| (...) Well, whoever the retard was who posted that link should be shot. I'm personally going to go and hunt him down. That and the dumbkoff who karma whored direct links in a followup comment. I'm going to hunt that person down too and shoot him (...) (19 years ago, 25-Jun-05, to lugnet.publish.brickjournal, lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, FTX)
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| Brace yourselves: You've been (URL)! Pros: excellent exposure to potentially interested readers Cons: sudden huge demand for the pdf's will overload your server for a couple of days -Brendan (19 years ago, 24-Jun-05, to lugnet.publish.brickjournal, FTX)
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| (...) Wow, this is great, I just printed it out for some enjoyable reading tonight. Congrats to everyone, and enjoy the slashdotting. George (19 years ago, 24-Jun-05, to lugnet.publish.brickjournal, FTX)
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| (...) Thanks Nate! It was a LOT of fun working with you onine with the Alternate MOC article..so let's do another one :-)! And next issue might, just might be bigger! Later, Joe ed./pub, BrickJournal (19 years ago, 24-Jun-05, to lugnet.publish.brickjournal, FTX)
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| (...) (snip) (...) As it would figure, I forgot a person: Todd Kubo, without which we wouldn't have the ISD Build contest story. This is what I get when I post at 2 am. Many apologies. Joe ed./pub, BrickJournal (19 years ago, 24-Jun-05, to lugnet.publish.brickjournal)
| | | | | Re: BrickJournal mentioned in Library Journal!!!
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| (...) Thomas, thanks for the link! And this one is funny, because I sent a bunch of news releases...and this is not one of the places I sent one to! Anyways, I'll send them a note correcting them about who published it...WE did :-) ! Later, Joe (...) (19 years ago, 24-Jun-05, to lugnet.publish.brickjournal, lugnet.mediawatch)
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| Joe/BrickJournal Staff, Looks like you have some professional recognition for your new publication: (URL) Unfortunately, they seem to be under the impression this magazine is published *by* Lego. You may want to correct them on that point. -- Thomas (...) (19 years ago, 24-Jun-05, to lugnet.publish.brickjournal, lugnet.mediawatch)
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| (...) Everything has been said already. Congratulations to all of you who have been involved in this huge project. To deliver over 60 pages of high quality articles is very impressive! Well done and I'm looking forward to the next issue(s)... And (...) (19 years ago, 24-Jun-05, to lugnet.publish.brickjournal, FTX)
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| Hi all, I'd like to thank all of you who have responded to me either on LUGNET or offline with comments and suggestions - I really appeciate them. And thanks for all the kind words and compliments, but I need to give credit to my staff... the (...) (19 years ago, 24-Jun-05, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.general, lugnet.publish.brickjournal)
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| (...) Nick, Thanks for the compliments! I'll ask Felix about his centerfold:-)...he's been waffling about it. And printing is being looked into. More when we figure out a plan. Thanks again, Joe ed./pub, BrickJournal (19 years ago, 24-Jun-05, to lugnet.publish.brickjournal, FTX)
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