Feed and Suck went on “indefinite hiatus” last Friday. I miss both of ’em, but particularly Feed.

Run by Steven Johnson, one of the early gurus and advocates of web publishing, Feed had a novel format combining a single online column by various contributors (“Feed Daily”) with feature-section packages taking longer and broader looks at meta-themes such as politics, the environment, and literature.

What’s more, Feed had the novelty of coming from NYC, not Frisco, which helped it maintain a healthy distance from the more annoying aspects of cyber-hype. (Suck sneered at the cyber-hype but still imagined it to be important enough to sneer at.)

OTHER VOICES (William Arnold, in his P-I review of the Tomb Raider movie): ” …It’s also scary to keep reading (even in my own newspaper) how Lara Croft is such a wonderful new feminist role model for young women. We’re talking here about a sadistic egotist who greedily vandalizes the cultural monuments of the Third World and embodies the spirit of Columbine. A role model? God help us all.”

ELSEWHERE:

Devo action figures! Every home should have a complete set! (found by Slumberland)….

What if they gave an Internet content creators’ convention and nobody came?…

Sympathy for the record industry?…