About PhinMag
About Phin Magazine (PhinMag)
Phin Magazine is a personal experimental online media project. In short, a creative side project from yours truly. It is a combination of two ideas: a personal blog published in a magazine format. I don’t dare to claim this as an innovative idea since in the world of the Internet, there’s bound to be some new idea popping up online somewhere.
I’ve been blogging since mid-1990s – pretty much around the time I discovered the Internet. I’ve blogged in so many blog or online diary sites under so many pseudonyms over the years. But since 2005, the appeal of blogging began to wane. I used to enjoy blogging a lot but it suddenly didn’t feel so fun anymore.
The reason I blogged was not only to keep a record of what’s going on in my life or as a form of stress relief therapy, but blogging became a training ground for me to practice and hopefully improve my writing. But when writing became less fun, it turned into a chore. And blogging did become a chore in the end. I don’t know. Maybe it’s just me getting tired of it.
Blogging is nothing new these days. Everybody does it. It’s so easy to start. But me being me - and so not into the Lemming Mentality/Movement - I’ve decided to start something new on my own.
My “Eureka!” moment came in the wee hours of the morning on March 2, 2006. Insomniac me was up in bed reading two print magazines where one is most likely to be no longer in print today. My ears were plugged to my MP3 player, blasting Fall Out Boy’s From Under the Cork Tree album. It seems the combination of all these three things gave me the inspiration for this concept.
When the idea of this blogging concept came to me, I couldn’t sleep the entire night because I was busy thinking up plans to get it started. Yes, I was that excited!
The concept was originally meant for a print magazine because there are a number of things that won’t work effectively online. Since I have no funding to actually do a print magazine (nor have the expertise to seriously run a proper magazine business. Then again, the Kuching market may not be ready for my idea, which sucks big time), I had to adapt my idea, simplified it, for the online version here.
I’m using a blog template for this. It makes my life easier because I don’t have time to do fancy coding for fancy site effects and all. Besides, am kinda lazy to do all that too. Topic category follows something like what you may find in a magazine. It’s basically all the things I enjoy talking about and share it with everyone.
I write all the contents here. Maybe once in a while I’ll let other people contribute something as well (no payments though). Photographs are also from yours truly unless credited otherwise.
Hopefully, I can consistently produce Phin Magazine as a monthly online publication. I will try to keep it up anyway.
The inaugural issue was revealed online on April 2, 2006.
Each new issue will be published every first Sunday of the month.
Phin Magazine is hosted by Blogsome with images hosted in Photobucket and Slide.com.
Contact Phin Magazine at phinmag AT gmail DOT com.
Comments on each entries are welcome but will be moderated before publishing online.
- PhinFiles | Time: 11:14 pm (UTC+8)
