Weekly Geeks #10: Magazines

This week's WG theme is magazines. I talked about a few of the magazines that I read regularly during the Friendly Book Nook Summer Reading Extravaganza, so today I'm going to talk about two of my online subscriptions:



1. Name of magazine. mental_floss

2. Do you subscribe or just buy it now and then? I have an RSS feed for the online version, so I read those articles prettty much everyday. I pick up the paper version every once in a while (when I'm in a store that actually carries it).

3. What’s your favorite regular feature in the magazine? I love the Morning Cup of Links and daily Lunchtime Quizzes.

4. What do you think your interest in this magazine says about you? I like knowing random facts that will come in handy while playing trivia at the bar with my friends.

5. How long have you been reading this magazine? I'm not really sure. I've been reading it online for over a year now, and I know I picked up the RL version every once in a while before that.

6. Is there any unique or quirky aspect to the magazine that keeps you reading? I am a useless knowledge junkie, and that's what this magazine is dedicated to providing. I love it!

1. Name of magazine. Education Week

2. Do you subscribe or just buy it now and then? I orginially had a trial subscription, but I had a lot of problems with actually getting the magazine. Now I have a condensed version e-mailed to me every week, and I read the articles that interest me. You have to register on the site to read some of them (and sometimes you can only read two a week), but it's worth it.

3. What’s your favorite regular feature in the magazine? They have a lot of information about politics and education, which is interesting to me.

4. What do you think your interest in this magazine says about you? I want to be a well-informed educator.

5. How long have you been reading this magazine? About a year.

6. Is there any unique or quirky aspect to the magazine that keeps you reading? It's weekly, which means the articles are usually extremely topical. I also like that I can search for articles about my specific content area.

Summer Reading Extravaganza Day 3: Magazines

We all love books, but how about magazines? Magazines are perfect for the shorter flight or poolside (so your book doesn’t get wet), don’t you think? What are your favorite magazines or what magazines would you recommend for book lovers? Or is there a magazine we should stay away from?

I discovered Marie Claire a few years ago, and I've had a subscription ever since. I used to read Cosmo, but got tired of the repetitive and ridiculous articles. (I also used to read JANE before it got cancelled. I refused to let them switch my subscription to Glamour out of principle. I want JANE back!) I picked up MC one day because it had Maggie Gyllenhaal (one of my favorite actresses) on the cover, and I was hooked! It has all the fun stuff that you would normally find in girlie magazines - (affordable) fashion, makeup and hair tips that I rarely use - but also book and movie reviews, political pieces, and an "Eye on the World" segment that interviews women from different countries to show problems they face and how they handle them.
I always learn something new after reading an issue.

I also read a few magazines for teachers, to help me get ideas for my class: Teacher Magazine, Instructor, and I have a digital subscription to EdWeek, which is probably more like a newspaper than a magazine.

My mom had a subscription to Newsweek for years while I was growing up, and I would always read it before her. Ditto for Reader's Digest (I still read this one when I'm at her house). I'll flip through Entertainment Weekly occasionally, or Wizard if I'm at the comic book store (which is rare now a days). And...that's about it!

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