Tekka: live!

The first issue of Tekka is now online. Subscribers received their login information this morning. You can subscribe today.

From time to time, I'll be writing here about interesting articles and ideas from the pilot issue. I hope you'll subscribe, of course. Everyone can read the beginning of each Tekka article. And we're looking at some new technology that would let bloggers (like me) give you temporary access to Tekka features they discuss.

The most important thing about Tekka is that, at last, we have a place to read and write seriously about enjoying new media. From my "Publishers' Note" for the pilot issue:

The technical press seems to be obsessed with money: great software is whatever sells ad space and trade show booths. The remnants of the old new economy produce chiefly press releases. The first artistically-successful hypertexts are almost 15 years old (and still very much in print), and they've inspired an impressive array of books, essays, articles, and dissertations, but a generation of talented young scholars finds itself with no place to publish. Criticism has stalled, and critical standards are dismal.

We're bored now.

We're seizing this moment, inauspicious as it may seem, to launch Tekka, a new Web magazine about enjoying new media and creating beautiful software. Tekka is serious reading, for serious readers. No kid stuff, no management fluff