Bookmarks and Burn

A few days ago I decided it was time to have an overdue clearout of my bookmarks in Firefox.  The ever present individual bookmarks, done so in an effort not to forget a certain page needed only once more are the worst.  A column of links, their usefulness long forgotten, stare at me, willing me to remember why I'd taken the time to save them.  I resist and click delete, time and again.  Finished with these, I move on to my tidy bookmark folders, neatly seperated and lovingly labeled.  Well yes, they might be lovingly labeled and neatly seperated but they still get ignored as much as the individual links.  This particular afternoon, however, I've noticed a folder of photography blogs and realise I haven't visited them in quite some time.

After a few moments of chiding myself I decide to have a read at one of my favourites, David Alan Harvey's "Road Trips", only to find that a month or two back he had stopped posting.  I must admit my disappointment was somewhat shortlived when I realised his end to Road Trips only allowed him time to start an online magazine based around the fantastic community of photographers that would comment on his blog.  I looked at Burn Magazine for the first time the other day and I'm hooked.  Billed as an evolving journal for emerging photographers, it is a combination of blogs, photo essays and projects.  In Harvey's own words it "is born from an educational imperative and  to bring strong photographic essays and powerful text to not only photographers, but to anyone fascinated by a visual and literary interpretation of our complex planet".  Sounds interesting?  Then go and have a look...

http://www.burnmagazine.org

I bookmarked it, though, I hope I won't be reporting back in a month, bashfully - how else? - that I'd forgotten it.