Don't you normally have one person who writes the article and (at least) another person who does the layout and photography for the article in a normal magazine?
I'm not saying that this is not a great idea for a new content type, but it seems to me that the intersection of people who are good at web design and people who are good at writing (about things that aren't web design) is probably a fairly small set (in comparison to the set of people who are good at writing).
You also have to notice that the signal to noise ratio in a magazine (feels to me) much higher in a traditional print medium than it is in a magazine. The text gets stretched out over a much larger area (although the trade off is worth it for magazines where the pictures help to tell the story).
A lot of the time, the design is there in order to cover up the apparent lack of information in the magazine. Have you ever read Cosmo? It is mostly full-page advertisements.
Although that does bring up the fact that you could monetize a blogazine really easily by including full-page advertisements and making it so you have to scroll through it. Imagine one of those really pretty magazine-style photo-adds on a blogazine, I would imagine that the click through rate would be pretty good, and you could charge just for showing the add.
Appearance and textual content meet somewhere (otherwise we would all be using HTML 1.1 or whatever), but I doubt we will be seeing full-blown blogazines go mainstream any time soon simply because of the technical skill involved (and how bad it will go if you don't pull it off properly).
I'm not saying that this is not a great idea for a new content type, but it seems to me that the intersection of people who are good at web design and people who are good at writing (about things that aren't web design) is probably a fairly small set (in comparison to the set of people who are good at writing).
You also have to notice that the signal to noise ratio in a magazine (feels to me) much higher in a traditional print medium than it is in a magazine. The text gets stretched out over a much larger area (although the trade off is worth it for magazines where the pictures help to tell the story).
A lot of the time, the design is there in order to cover up the apparent lack of information in the magazine. Have you ever read Cosmo? It is mostly full-page advertisements.
Although that does bring up the fact that you could monetize a blogazine really easily by including full-page advertisements and making it so you have to scroll through it. Imagine one of those really pretty magazine-style photo-adds on a blogazine, I would imagine that the click through rate would be pretty good, and you could charge just for showing the add.
Appearance and textual content meet somewhere (otherwise we would all be using HTML 1.1 or whatever), but I doubt we will be seeing full-blown blogazines go mainstream any time soon simply because of the technical skill involved (and how bad it will go if you don't pull it off properly).