FEED is an award-winning online general interest magazine that covers media, technology, pop culture, science, and the arts.

Since its inception in 1995, FEED has earned praise for its high-quality editorial content. Beginning in 1999, FEED has published bimonthly special issues, each exploring a topic in depth. Recent special issues have focused on 21st Century Inventions, Art, Books, the Brain, Video Games, and Open Source. These special issues have been featured in venues such as Bookwire, Discover, MSNBC, Wired News, and the San Francisco Chronicle. Past special issue sponsors include Psygnosis, Quality Paperback Book Club, the New School's CyberCampus, Adobe GoLive, and Lotus.

FEED Contributors

Select FEED contributors include:

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jhumpa Lahiri; National Book Award finalist Geoff Dyer; acclaimed author Gilbert Sorrentino; A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius author Dave Eggers; The Nation's Katha Pollitt; The New Yorker music critic Alex Ross; Genome author Matt Ridley; Data Smog author David Shenk; celebrated media critic Mark Crispin Miller; Siskel and Ebert's Roger Ebert; underground music impresario Moby; and many others.

Content of FEED

COLUMNS:

Rotating columns include:

• INTERFACE: Written by FEED's cofounder Steven Johnson, this column explores topics relating to interface design, software, hardware, and Web development.
• THE MATERIALIST: Written by FEED's cofounder Stefanie Syman, this column focuses on contemporary art and practice.
• OTHER COLUMNS: Posthuman Condition, by Erik Davis; Screen Saver, by Sam Lipsyte; Idée Fixe, by Julian Dibbell.

OTHER FEATURES:

• FEED DAILY: A fresh perspective on the latest news and cultural buzz. "Unfailingly original, insightful, and refreshing . . . The view from 10,000 feet." -- The New York Times
• DEEP READ: An extended essay looking at several related books or films. Topics range from the mythologizing of the American West to the commercialization of religion.
• REPORT: On the scene coverage that goes behind the scenes to provide context, texture, and FEED's unique perspective on unfolding events.
• INTERVIEW: A biweekly series profiling leading technologists, artists, visionaries, and provocateurs.
• THE LOOP: Readers take part in heated discussions of FEED essays, roundtables, and daily articles in this forum.
• DIALOG: Roundtable discussions in which experts debate a topic of recent interest. The debate usually unfolds over one week, and leads to extensive reader participation in The Loop.
• EDGE: FEED publishes excerpts from John Brockman's invitation-only Internet forum, where hundreds of the world's leading scientists and thinkers share their thoughts on issues ranging from the meaning of numbers to genetics to affirmative action. Contributors to the first installment include Freeman Dyson, Richard Dawkins, and Joseph Traub.

Reviews and Awards

REVIEWS:

"Some of the sharpest writing on-line or off. . . . Unfailingly original, insightful and refreshing." -- The New York Times, March 5, 1999.

"FEED has consistently pushed the edges of what a Web publication can do and be." -- Atlantic Unbound, September 23, 1998.

"Smart, media-centric commentary." -- New York Post, December 15, 1997.

"FEED offers the best argument yet for on-line publishing by serving up a constantly updated mix of irreverent news and pointed commentary, accompanied by plenty of hypertext links to the rest of the Web." -- The New York Times Magazine, September 28, 1997.

"FEED brings some of the sensibility of Harper's, the Atlantic, or the New Yorker to your PC screen, while using the advantages of the Web more intelligently than any of the other on-line magazines. . . . FEED stands as the best example of combining the quality and principles of traditional print journalism with the new forms available on-line." -- The Wall Street Journal, June 6, 1996.

"Cyberspace for grown-ups." --The Economist, February 17-23, 1996.

AWARDS:

• Both Newsweek.com and Shift magazine (US) named FEED among their top Websites in October 1999.
• Yahoo! Internet Life named FEED the Web site with the Best Coverage of High-Tech Culture in 1999.
• Fast Company magazine includes FEED in their Favorite Bookmarks section.
• FEED was nominated for a 1998 & 1999 Webby Award.

FEED is owned by Automatic Media, a merger of some of the most well-known and respected Web publications to date, including FEED, Suck, and Alt.Culture. Created in July of 2000, Automatic Media will provide its partner sites with capital, infrastructure, traffic, and distribution, while at the same time allowing each site to retain editorial independence. The network will supply its content sites and their users with access to the most versatile and intelligent community, customization, and content-creation tools available on the Web. Backed by Lycos-Terra, Advance Internet, and Lycos Ventures, the company is led by Lee DeBoer, the former president of HBO International.