# The Advantages of Working from Home and ... a Project!

The good thing about working from home is that if you (say) decide you
want go outside and blow soap bubbles for ten (or even fifteen)
minutes–you can!

I’ve been thinking about starting an on-line magazine similar to
[theoriginalsoundtrack](http://theoriginalsoundtrack.mit.edu/) and
[McSweeney’s](http://mcsweeneys.net/). Recently, it occurred to me that
though the web is a medium very much suited to collaboration and
co-operation, not much of it actually goes on. Instead, most people–and
this includes me–spend hours each week tidying and dusting their
personal sites. I think something really great could come to be if a
handful of people got together and made a magazine.

What would this magazine contain? Pretty much everything: opinions,
reviews, rants, fiction, non-fiction, photographs, poetry … the one
exception: lists of links–the web has enough weblogs! Also, I don’t
agree with the folks at [Teeth](http://teethmag.com/) magazine who say
that the web "[should be interlinked _as much as
possible_](http://www.teethmag.com/showart.pl?pid=19)". The web makes
collaboration easy and publishing cheap; it also offers a worldwide, and
practically limitless audience: these are the attributes I want to make
use of, not the ability to link to everything in sight.

What do you think? <mjs@beebo.org>.

[Haiyan has alerted me to [bootyquake](http://www.bootyquake.com/),
another magazine.]