Behind the scenes with Lucire founder and publisher Jack Yan, with an appeal for a family in Gaza, the difficulties of becoming an Amazon seller, and the hopelessness of AI-written stories […]
February 26, 2024/9.20
Tag: World Wide Web
Our Mastodon account was suspended, then reinstated—here’s what we learned
November 17, 2022/22.15
That was a learning experience that was positive overall, as our five-year-old home at Mastodon.art was temporarily suspended—revealing the pros and cons with having an account on a Mastodon instance, or server, writes Jack Yan […]
Publisher’s diary: Feedspot’s top 50, computers in cars, and a new mayor
October 12, 2022/0.59
Founder and publisher Jack Yan with a summary of recent events, beginning with Lucire’s surprise appearance on a top-50 fashion magazines’ list […]
A tribute to the uniquely creative and brilliant David MacGregor
November 28, 2021/9.45
Wayback Machine at Archive.org Above: A 2000 screenshot of Emale, created by David MacGregor. I was very saddened to learn of the passing of my friend David MacGregor, with whom this magazine collaborated in the early 2000s. But David was much more than the creator of Emale (eMALE in its official form), New Zealand’s […]
Where have the fun fashion magazine websites gone?
February 6, 2021/21.45
Above: The very first site (alphabetically) linked from our Newsstand pages, Annabelle of Switzerland, complete with large lead image and smaller subsidiary ones. I took a look at Lucire’s Newsstand reviews tonight. This section is a relic of the early dot-com days that Lucire came from (in the 1990s), when people exchanged links with […]
Hoshinoya smartphone app monitors onsen crowd size
July 1, 2020/10.59
Karuizawa, one of the 15 resorts where the new app is first deployed In response to the coronavirus, Hoshinoya Resorts has rolled out a new smartphone app at 15 properties, which monitors the size of crowds at their popular onsen, public hot springs. Onsen, which is one of the highlights of going to a […]
Opinions: what we need from media beyond ‘fake news’; looking to the stars
March 15, 2017/21.47
We need independent media Paul Clarke/CC BY-SA 4.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=37435469 Above: Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web. Earlier this month, Sir Tim Berners-Lee wrote an open letter expressing his concerns about the evolution of his invention, the World Wide Web. (Interestingly, he writes the term all in lowercase.) It wasn’t just […]
A nip–tuck for Lucire’s home page
November 10, 2010/22.39
Visitors to our home page might have noticed a few nip–tucks as of this morning. It’s an acknowledgement of how you use the home page. The page is slightly wider, because many monitors are wider today. While it’s still not designed for those of you with 23-inch screens, it now has a nominal […]
Revising the ‘Insider’ section
September 5, 2009/8.06
Between 8 and 9 a.m. GMT, we will be revising the template to the ‘Insider’ pages. We won’t take this section offline, but in case things don’t go smoothly, you might find a few strange layouts. (Don’t blame your computer or ISP during this hour: it’s us.) You may also like The Lucire website, à […]
September 4, 2009/13.32
If you came via the home page today, then you’ll know Lucire has a new look on the web. We haven’t put this design on all the pages yet—obviously this page, at the time of writing, still has the old look. But we are continuing to roll it out across the site and all subsequent […]
