Feed or feedmag.com was one of the earliest e-zines that relied entirely on its original online content. Feed was founded by Stefanie Syman and Steven Johnson

Steven Berlin Johnson

Steven Berlin Johnson is an American popular science author.-Education:Steven Johnson attended the prestigious St. Albans School as a youth. He completed his undergraduate degree at Brown University, where he studied semiotics, a part of Brown's modern culture and media department...

 in 1995, and soon found a devoted online following. The zine had daily content, and focused on media, pop culture, technology, science and the arts. One of the editors was novelist Sam Lipsyte

Sam Lipsyte

Sam Lipsyte is an American novelist and short story writer.The son of the sports journalist Robert Lipsyte, Sam Lipsyte was born in New York City and raised in Closter, New Jersey...

.

Automatic Media

In July 2000, following a sharp downturn in internet investment, Feed merged with popular editorial site suck.com

Suck.com

Suck.com was one of the earliest ad-supported content sites on the Internet. It featured daily editorial content on a wide variety of topics, including politics and pop-culture and was targeted at Generation X...

 to create Automatic Media

Automatic Media

-Foundation:Automatic Media was created as a joint venture by early editorial dot-coms suck.com and Feed Magazine.It was announced on July 9, 2000 that the founders of Suck.com and Feed.com had raised $4 million in fresh venture capital financing from Lycos Ventures LP for their new project...

. Their concept was to streamline their operations and collaborate on boutique operations with low staffing costs. Their joint project Plastic.com

Plastic.com

Plastic.com was an internet forum for news and discussion of events and issues. The site was community-driven, with readers moderating discussions, submitting stories, and participating in their selection.Its motto was 'Recycling the Web in Real Time'....

 was founded with only 4 staffed employees. Despite the faithful cult following, and a combined reader base of over 1 million, Automatic Media folded in June 2001.

External links

• http://www.feedmag.com
• feedmag.com archive via the Wayback Machine
• A News.com article on Feed's demise
• A Salon.com article on the end of Suck and Feed (Editorial by Scott Rosenberg
  Scott Rosenberg (journalist)
  - External links :**...
  
  ) (audio interview)
• A USA Today article on the history of Automatic Media
• Steven Berlin Johnson's blog