New Zealand’s foremost student zine, Millennium Falcon (ed. Sophie Davis + Grace Campbell of ILAM, Christchurch) recently interviewed Jack Self about Fulcrum and print media.
Millennium Falcon: Your last article for Fulcrum examines publishing in the age of the Internet and discusses that, in an age of bloggers, the printed object needs to be unique and engaging in order to justify its own existence. How do you want readers to interact with printed copies of Fulcrum, considering that it is also available online as a PDF?
Jack Self: The whole idea of Fulcrum was to bring writing to students. We always wanted to physically print and distribute because we knew that students wouldn’t check a blog every week, but if Fulcrum is sitting in our school at the front doors, in the library, at the bookstore, in the bar, people will pick it up.
The website is very different. It’s more of an online chronicle of the issues so far and also makes Fulcrum available to a wider range of people. Initially the reason we put all the issues on the website is because we have a lot of friends who don’t go to the AA and because we don’t want to be exclusive about it – people in other places and countries can read it as well…