life.net
“You can fill your garage with shiny new boats,
start a boating blog and tattoo a paddling Tasmanian Devil on your ass.
But none of that captures the soul of our sport.“
-paddlinglife.com
start a boating blog and tattoo a paddling Tasmanian Devil on your ass.
But none of that captures the soul of our sport.“
-paddlinglife.com
You may remember at one time that I wrote a bit about the new Paddling Life Magazine in December of ‘06. A bunch of us sent in our subscriptions even though they were being a bit mean to us blogger types.
Oddly just a few days back I was thinking, “Did I subscribe or just tell everyone else to??” That didn’t sound like me, but on the other hand I had not seen the first issue. Well, today I got the email. Paddlinglife has not wrangled up enough advertisers and therefore has postponed the print magazine indefinitely. Subscribers get the option to let them keep your ten bucks or they will refund a portion or all of it. It’s all up to you. Of course their goal now is to offer an online magazine. . .
In reality that’s not a bad idea. Might want to talk to a few “boating bloggers” about capturing that online “soul”.


OK, I’m curious, what was that about the bloggers? I missed it!
Oh, I found it. Hah. Gotcha.
Thing is, it seems to me that just about any publication or website that claims to capture the spirit of paddling might be said to have done a better job of capturing the spirit of one of those famous blind men.
You know. The ones with the elephant?
good analogy!
I subscribed to Canoe and Kayak. I got two magazines. I called them, they don’t really care much.
Some 2 year subscription THAT was.
-kqp