LabforCulture’s research on Cultural blogging in Europe reaches its penultimate interview with Alessandro Ludovico of Neural magazine. Having launched the research series in April this year with Annette Wolfsberger, a producer, project manager and researcher in the fields of media arts, contemporary & popular culture, we now have interviews with bloggers and online writers from much of Europe.

Alessandro Ludovico is a media critic and has been producing Neural magazine in English and Italian since 1993. It is complimented by its blog http://www.neural.it. As a self described “geek”, he talks us through the advent of his first print magazine publication 16 years ago and the birth of “something I cannot really call a blog” launched 12 years ago.  He is also known for the inspired Google Will Eat Itself project and Mag.net readers edited with Nat Muller. Alessandro‘s interview is truly an opportunity to see how digital culture has developed and how working practices have developed as a result of those changes.

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Finally the Cultural bloggers map we launched in the summer has amassed well over a hundred blogs. Have a look at them or add your favourite/your own to the map. We want it to reflect as many cultural blogs as possible in Europe. How does the cultural blogging scene look now?