Blast is currently looking for a head copy editor — someone who really loves words and gammar — to not only edit our monthly main stories for facts, wording and style, but to manage our Blast Stylebook, adding to it and modifying it as needed. Let us know if you can help.

Blast’s 2008 Media Kit is now available for advertisers. For the love of God, SPONSOR US. We’re really freakin good, we swear.

Blast is a lifestyle and tech magazine focused on us spoiled, rotten Generation Y kids born between 1978 and sometime in the early 90s. (And a few Generation X holdovers — think MTV before “The Hills,” Atari and baseball with long hair, mustaches and no steroids.) We’ve experienced Nintendo, AOL when it was dialup and all the girls in the chat rooms were models, Windows (or MAC), Doom on a 3.5″ floppy, boy bands, iPods, iPhones and college degrees that stuck us with a mortgage in student loans.

Blast’s contributors do music, movies, theater, video games, sports, fashion, sex, food and liquor for starters. We write about some of it too.

Blast is online. Don’t ask for the print edition.

And, seriously folks, we’re not a blog. We do use WordPress as our content management system, but WordPress is SO much more than a blogging platform.

Blast is a form of convergence journalism, looking to combine the quality of print journalism (and print journalists) with the convenience and unlimited space of the web. Where else can you find a 2,000-word video game review or a 3,000-word band interview? Maybe Rolling Stone. Yeah, we’re not as good as Rolling Stone.

Where else will you find coverage of both the 2008 presidential race and the latest breaking news from the porn industry? Maybe Maxim. We’re better.

We try to be equally geared toward guys and girls — forgive us if it doesn’t seem that way, but we think we balance the pregnant porn star coverage pretty well with the latest from Kaki King and Tegan and Sara.

This is Volume 2, Issue 11 for October 2008. Contributors for the issue included: Jocelyn Carleton, Chris DeMatteo, John M. Guilfoil, Bessie King, Marc Normandin, Mike Perry, Mike Preble, Elizabeth Raftery, Casey Ramsdell, Kellen Rice, Terri Schwartz, Sachin Seth, Joe Sinicki, Trevor Timm, and Micah Warren.

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