Feed Magazine
Feed or feedmag.com was one of the earliest e-zines that relied entirely on its original online content.
The site
Feed was founded by Stefanie Syman and Steven Johnson in 1995, and soon found a devoted online following. The 'zine had daily content, and focused on media, pop culture, technology, science and the arts.
Automatic Media
In July 2000, following a sharp downturn in internet investment, Feed merged with popular editorial site suck.com to create Automatic Media. Their concept was to streamline their operations and collaborate on boutique operations with low staffing costs. Their joint project Plastic.com was founded with only 4 staffed employees. Despite the faithful cult following, and a combined reader base of over 1 million, Automatic Media folded in June 2001.
External links
- http://www.feedmag.com - Feed's old URL, which served for some time as an archive of old articles, and is now unresponsive.
- A News.com article on Feed's demise
- A Salon.com article on the end of Suck and Feed
- A USA Today article on the history of Automatic Media
- Steven Berlin Johnson's blog