Ron Brown
Editor, Steam In The Garden Magazine
docsteam@spectra.net
We are pleased to announce that Steam In The Garden magazine is now published on the World Wide Web. This "web site", as they are called, includes articles, editorials, pictures, and a trade show area for dealers and manufacturers related to the live steam scene. It will also be home to The Roundhouse, an online museum of live steam locomotives in our scales and gauges.
This online media form, as with print publication, has strengths as well as weaknesses but will be integrated with the Steam In The Garden publication in way that will play to the strengths of both forms of publication. While the magazine looks forward and brings news of new products and activities in the live steam community, the online edition will serve as a living, continually updated archive of images and articles from the live steam community. Likewise, interesting articles or topics that may be too narrow in scope for the broader print publication may find a home in the online edition. Moving forward, we expect to be able to include real-time video with the online edition.
We look forward to learning how this new medium can best be used to provide the information that our fellow live steam enthusiasts have come to rely on Steam In The Garden to provide, and how our partnership with our readers can be enhanced through this technology. We welcome and encourage your feedback and contributions to Steam In The Garden Online!
Warmest regards,
Ron Brown
Editor, Steam In The Garden Magazine
docsteam@spectra.net
Richard Finlayson
Editor, Steam In The Garden Online
richardf@steamup.com