User:Andrew Demain

The term "Webzines" was created by th anthropologist Cyril Belshaw in 1995. At that time he registered a provate non-corporate company in British Columbia with the name "Webzines of Vancouver". Recentl the term has become in common use. For ten years he published magaines on the web. One of tyhem was called "The AnthroGHlobe Journal". It was and is a site which accepts multimedia anthropology articles and is not hosted by the University of Kent, U.K. Anoter webzine was called "EVE" or "Enjoy Vancouver Electronically. This too was multi-media and carried such items as videos of festivals, popular and classical music, essays on public policy and rather more. It became too complicated for him to handle alone, although he had volunteer help, so he trimmed it down and renamed it "Adam's Guide to Vancouver restaurants". This was unique and had a large following in that it was arranged street by street with cross references to list of foods by genre, by quality and by price. In the mid 2000's Belshaw shifted focus to concentrate on book and e-book writing and publishing, continuing to use the same company name. In this he outsorced much of the work to Lulu.com. To date (May 2010) Webzines of Vancouver has issued four of Belshaw's own works and has a list of forthcoming titles which are publications of doctoral theses in anthropology which did not see the light of day. These are published in library editions and where relevangt as e-books. The latter make it possible for anthropologists to communicate their results to the growing number of computer-savvy people in the poorer countries where field work was completed - such as Fiji and Papua for example.