Like StumbleUpon for magazine articles

November 4, 2009 11:00 PM

"Maggwire.commakes discovering magazine content a personalized experience. Utilizing social intelligence, our system recommends magazine articles you will enjoy reading from over 600 magazine titles."

More on how it works. They are just out of private beta and apparently will soon be offering a premium version with content from subscriptions sites.

posted by allkindsoftime (7 comments total)

Magawut
posted by fire&wings at 2:02 AM on November 5

My mother keeps sending me magazine articles that she thinks I will enjoy reading. She knows me better than this site and still she gets it wrong.
posted by twoleftfeet at 5:20 AM on November 5

When I saw the title, the first thing I thought was "... Reader's Digest"?
posted by focalmatter at 5:31 AM on November 5

Even though this is sort of RSS aggregation for dummies, I still found stuff I wanted to read that I wasn't aware of, so I'll probably end up checking it out occasionally.
posted by mecran01 at 5:47 AM on November 5 [1 favorite]

This looks like a good service. I'll be checking it out.
posted by reenum at 7:01 AM on November 5

I'll give it a shot. I'm afraid, though, that it'll be better at recommending articles about subjects I like (What's that you say? I enjoy articles about jazz, so I should read more articles about jazz, such as the ones that appear in jazz magazines? Wow, thank you, Maggwire!) than it will be at recommending articles that are well-written or interesting or whatnot. I like beer, too, but I don't want to read a million lad-mag top-ten-fake-dive-bar lists, y'know?
posted by box at 7:22 AM on November 5

Utilizing social intelligence, our system recommends magazine articles you will enjoy reading from over 600 magazine titles.

There might be utility in there. But why must every new media-finding service advertise itself like some kind of post-human nightmare?

MAG-BOT RECOMMENDS THE SHORT FEATURE ON CREME BRULE. YOU WILL READ IT AND YOU WILL LIKE IT.
posted by bicyclefish at 8:12 AM on November 5 [2 favorites]