February 7, 2007 by Node Magazine.

Wow! The first reviews from some of the web’s most prestigious discussion board posters are already in (and not a single article has been published yet):

• “Pretentious”
• “Quasi-graphical MUCK”
• “Amazing lack of imagination”
• “Desire for easy hits when (William Gibson’s Spook Country) comes out and the unavoidable googling begins”
• “A flashpoint of vapor on a horizon that moves like a chrome spectre” (thanks, David!)

With expectations at a fever pitch, we are preparing to change the face of cyber-journalism in ways that even the most lucid critic has yet to fear.

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February 7, 2007 by Node Magazine.

NodeMagazine is now online:

Hollis Henry is a journalist, on investigative assignment from a magazine called Node. Node doesn’t exist yet, which is fine, she’s used to that, but it seems to be actively preventing the kind of buzz that magazines normally cultivate before they begin to exist. That would be odd, and even a little scary, if Hollis allowed herself to think about it much, which she can’t afford to do. (William Gibson, Spook Country)

Want to write for a magazine that doesn’t exist about a fictional world yet to be published?

Here are some of the open positions:

• News Correspondents
• Entertainment / Lifestyle Critic
• Technology Reviewer
• Gossip Columnist
• Business Columnist
• International Affairs / Political correspondent
• Sports Reporter

To apply, post a sample story to the William Gibson Discussion Board by Friday February 16. We will then poll the discussion group members to see who makes the cut. Node goes live on Tuesday February 20, 2007 if the interest is there. If the buzz doesn’t take off, we might be closer to real fictional non-magazine that ever.

- patternBoy

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