McJAWN
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McJAWN is a Philadelphia based online art
Art
Art is the product or process of deliberately arranging items in a way that influences and affects one or more of the senses, emotions, and intellect....

 and culture
Culture
Culture is a term that has many different inter-related meanings. For example, in 1952, Alfred Kroeber and Clyde Kluckhohn compiled a list of 164 definitions of "culture" in Culture: A Critical Review of Concepts and Definitions...

 magazine
Magazine
Magazines, periodicals, glossies or serials are publications, generally published on a regular schedule, containing a variety of articles. They are generally financed by advertising, by a purchase price, by pre-paid magazine subscriptions, or all three...

. In June 2008 the company was founded by Yis Goodwin and Wen Vo
Wen Vo
Wen Vo is an Asian-American artist and entrepreneur who co-founded McJAWN along with Yis Goodwin. In the summer of 2008, Vo and Goodwin started McJAWN, an online art and culture magazine catering to the young residents of the city of Philadelphia...

. McJAWN started off as a small online magazine that highlighted the current Philadelphia art scene. As of 2009, the company was receiving over 3,000 hits per day. McJAWN is currently in partnership with Philadelphia Inquirer's Phrequency.com, Two One Five Magazine and Urban Outfitters
Urban Outfitters
Urban Outfitters, Inc. is a publicly traded American company that owns and operates five retail brands: Urban Outfitters, Anthropologie, Free People, Terrain, and BHLDN....

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McJAWN is Wordpress
WordPress
WordPress is a free and open source blogging tool and publishing platform powered by PHP and MySQL. It is often customized into a content management system . It has many features including a plug-in architecture and a template system. WordPress is used by over 14.7% of Alexa Internet's "top 1...

-powered, but can, at times, have a Flash-based reading interface.

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