the world we live in: a magazine about reading the news calmly

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An independent, non-political magazine about how to read the news and feeds. It is not a news outlet or a blogging platform, does not publish news and is not connected to the former website on this domain.

Archive

Magazine archive

Here you will find a map of the magazine and a short account of the domain's old addresses. If you arrived via an old link and did not find what you were looking for, the reason is explained below. And if you are new here, the list of sections will help you quickly find a good topic to start getting to know the magazine.

An old link is a kind of retelling too: it promises a text that may no longer be there.

— From the editors

Magazine sections

  • Articles: the magazine's main topics and a catalogue of standalone articles for English-language readers.
  • A short history: how news travelled from handwritten newsletters and the first regular newspaper to never-ending feeds.
  • People and authors: the roles a message passes through, and how to tell who wrote a piece.
  • Collections: reading lists for anyone tired of the news, about to share a post or wanting to talk it over with family.
  • Events: where people learn to read the news and how to check a listing for a talk.
  • Analysis: a headline taken apart using a neutral example, and checking a photo without a caption.
  • Notes on archived addresses (in Russian): the path to the original source, questions to ask before reposting, news versus opinion.

About the domain's old addresses

This domain used to host a repost feed on a blogging platform, and was later used for unrelated advertising. The earlier feed posts have not survived, and we are not restoring them: the magazine has neither their texts nor any right to speak on behalf of their former authors.

Most of the old addresses now report that the page has been permanently removed. A few addresses that are still linked to have become short notes on reading the news. They do not touch on the topics of the earlier posts and explain general techniques: how to get to the original source, what to ask yourself before reposting and how to tell a report of a fact from a comment on it.

  • Articles

    The magazine's topics: reading routines, genres, headlines, photos out of context, reposts, children and the news. Plus the article catalogue.

  • History

    How news travelled from handwritten newsletters and the first regular newspaper of 1605 to feeds that refresh themselves.

  • Original source (in Russian)

    A note on an archived link-out address: five steps from a retelling back to the original source.

Sources

  • Public web archives
  • Encyclopedic sources on the history of print

The magazine draws on general principles of media literacy and encyclopedic knowledge of the history of print. How feeds work, notification settings and menu names in your apps may differ from the general descriptions given here.