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Jason Boog

hi jason, thanks for the mention!

how do you distinguish a webzine from a zine from a blog? to me, a "zine" in its truest form is handmade and distributed by hand or mail.

there's been much discussion about blogs replacing zines which i find very interesting. i think you have to distinguish between mommy bloggers (i hate that term!) and mama zinesters. it's a pretty different aesthetic. my zine is definitely different from my blog.

i hope this doesn't come across snarky, i'm just curious! i have a ton of links to mama zinesters on my zine site btw.

p.s.
i don't know if you discovered this about me or not but i was a PCV in Cameroon from 94-96 :)

Dear Stacey,

I love it! You fit my themes for the last two weeks, perfectly!

As for the zine vs. blog difference, I based my selections on a very simple (too simple!) criteria: if they had "zine" in the title, I added them to my Mothers with Zines list.

I completely agree that these two mediums are radically different, and my guest this week, Jenna Freedman, gave me plenty of advice about the differences between blogs and zines. So stay tuned...

It's always great to hear from a RPCV. You should contact John Coyne over at Peace Corps Writers, he's always looking for more writers...

Cheers,
Jason Boog