Mark asks…
How to start a magazine company?
I want to start a magazine that focuses on the underground Hip Hop/Rap, R&B, and Reggaeton here in Chicago. I wanted to know what process do i have to go through in order to launch a successful magazine company.
I would also like to know the different departments there is to a magazine company.
I am a graphic designer so if there are any magazine templates i could use please link me to them. I work with Adobe Photoshop CS3 & CS4 Portable.
GardenersCardiff answers:
Before you start, you need to plan, plan, plan. You need to research and know your target market. Ask yourself: Who are my competitors? Why is my magazine unique? Magazines are easy to start but hard to maintain long-term. You want to start small and grow. Do you have funding or will you work with a team of volunteers? If you don’t have funding, it might be best to start online. There are many magazine web templates available online like the WordPress magazine templates. For print magazines, most publishing companies use Adobe InDesign and QuarkXpress as their layout program, which are easy to use.
Here are some article links that might help you. (Also check magazinelaunch.com which is a good resource for starting your own magazine). The first link below is an article called “Basics of Publishing a Magazine” and the second gives information about different departments/jobs that exists.
Http://magazinepublishing.suite101.com/article.cfm/publishing_a_magazine
http://magazineindustry.suite101.com/article.cfm/magazine_job_titles
Hopes this helps and best wishes!
George asks…
For Grandparents- What cliques or crowds were present in your high school?
I am doing some research for my Adolescent Development class, and I need to ask this question to grandparents. Since I have none of my own, I thought some of you grandparents may be able to give me some information. Thank you very much!
GardenersCardiff answers:
I went to a co ed highschool for three years, until I felt I’d had enough
of the cliques, and the snobs, and the geeks and the greasers, who
were the guys who were Elvis wannebes’. I felt I wasn’t getting enough
out of that school, due to the rating system going on. The highest
elevated group, we called, “the Soshes'(short for Socials). They were a definite clique. And they all lived in the same general neighborhood of high tax bracket homes at our end of town. They had to have the latest in clothes, the best looking boyfriends/girlfriends, and these were of the class that would have their noses done for their senior graduation present, if needed. The girls didn’t have their own cars, so they made sure they had junior or senior boyfriends, who did, right from Freshman year on. You would see them driving down the main drag of our city on a Friday and Saturday night,in a continuous parade in shiny chromed cars of mostly by gone years. Some souped up, and decorated with flames, and other decals. They all had to be super shiny to reflect the theatre lights on Broadway as they drove by.
I don’t believe any of them studied very hard, as they were always
out on school nights for a little while. The girls would congregate at
one friends house, and the guys, I suppose did too.
The rest of us had to study, to pass, since we didn’t come from
the upper crust class of kids. No matter how good looking any of us
were. You had to come from the same background and have the money to be accepted, by those kids. And most of us weren’t that
bothered. Unless one of the soshes’ wanted to borrow free writing
paper from us, or wanted to copy our answers for a test. I remember
one of the more popular girls doing that with me. She shmoozed me
before the test, and any other time, she didn’t give me the time of the
day. I let her copy that one time, and I took a barely passable grade,
by not putting down the right answers. She never looked in my direction again.
I fell into a middle group. It wasn’t a clique, I was one of the inde-
pendants. One who did stay up with the trends but I didn’t have a
wardrobe full, like the sosh girls apparently did. I had two up to date
outfits that appeared once a week and that was it. The rest were from
the previous school year, with some new accents. I had three close
friends, and later a boy friend who set tongues wagging when they
saw him. Luckily, he didn’t go to our school. Which made him all the
more intriguing.
The nerds did have a small group. I’d see them in the cafeteria, or
in study hall. Or up in the projection booth helping with a movie or
something. Or they were in the band room. They seemed to be cut
out by the same cookie cutter. Wearing plaid flannel shirts in the
winter and fall and spring.Always buttoned down at the wrist. And most seemed to wear glasses. Though I did also. But I was a geek
or a nerd.
The geeks, were below the nerds. And they were more childlike in
their personalities. More like 6th graders, who were in no hurry to
grow up. They weren’t into dating, or being with girls. They just were
there.
And the greasers, wore their leather jackets all the time. They wanted to look cool always. They had the greased down duck tails
folded in perfectly in back. One would walk with a toothpick in his
mouth to the side. He had a coil of a curl down on his forehead, like
John Travolta wore in Grease. And the sides were slicked back over
the ears. These were the boys, who smoked before and after school.
They thought that was a cool thing to do also. They were the sleepers
in class at the back of the classrooms in the last row. They didn’t
study in study hall either. I guess they all thought they’ed be great
car mechanics some day, since they loved to work on their cars and
keep them hopped up and cool sounding, with their glass packed
mufflers, that were really noisey.
There was also a very small group of those preppy types. They
were the cheer leaders, and pep squad. All pom pom carries at all
the football games. They were mostly to themselves as if they were
kings and queens of some high royal order. If they hung around with
anyone else, it was someone from the sosh’s group.
I chose to finish highschool at an all girls school that had college
prep classes available. At the time, I was interested in becoming a
nurse, so I found the classes necessary there. I had finally found my
true niche there. And met another great boy from that had gone to the
all boys school nearby. I had more fun in my senior year, than my
previoius three at the other school. And I actually learned more than
I ever dreamed I could. We all seemed to be of the same thought,
we wanted to learn and apply it to a vocation some day soon. And
some of us did and some of us didn’t as I was later to learn.
Maria asks…
Is the PC Brigade responsible for the wave of teen violence in the UK?
In all kids have far more opportunities than they did say 50 years ago, and yet the crime rate is soaring!
Personally, i think its to do with the break down of the traditional family, bad parenting, indiscipline in schools and the influence of african american urban music forms like rap, hip hop etc.
Much of that is due to the PC brigade, who insist on treating kids as “citizens” rather than children who need to be guided, taught and where necessary, disciplined.
For many years the “right on” brigade have had the education system in its grip, teachers are not allowed to teach in a traditional way, they are not allowed to discipline kids etc, and pupils have no respect or fear whatsoever for authority.
In many areas, the traditional nuclear family has simply ceased to exist, kids are produced with no more thought than that taken to produce a turd! There is often no father figure, often the mother does not work, and again the kids have no grounding or discipline at home.
Nothing is done about parents who abdicate responsibility for their kids either, there are no penalties for slack parents.
The police do little to these kids, if they are under 18, they no damn well they can get away with most things, and that the police, courts, CPS and local authorities are ineffectual.
Poverty isnt the cause, people were poorer in the 1940’s and 1950s but there was nothing like the level of crime amongst teenagers…basically because family traditions were still strong, the school system was still strong, it wasnt illegal to smack or discipline your kids, or for a passer by to intervene if he saw kids misbehaving, and theb police were respected, had powers, and would use them!
I believe it is the Guardian reading, Politically Correct, alternative, champaign socialist types who have blood on their hands. They have derided the idea of the traditional family, traditional education and traditional forms of discipline for years. And as they basically run many local authorities, the school system, and are influential in the media and the judicial system, they have got away with it!
GardenersCardiff answers:
Good parenting is not the sole preserve of two parent families.There are very many excellent parents bringing up children on their own.
Personally I blame a combination of factors.The justice system which allows them to become repeat offenders by not punishing harshly enough.In todays society where both parents or the sole parent chooses or needs to go out to work through necessity very little time is left in each day to spend with children and influence them in a positive manner.I sometimes wonder if that could be the reason why there is a rise in gang culture,it gives them a sense of belonging that is missing from their family life.
You say often the mother does not work.I chose to stay at home and be a full time mother (a luxury not all can afford)specifically because I wanted to be the main influence in their life and ensure they grew up decent people.
There is no simple reason for or solution to society’s downward spiral.
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