A Subscription Service for Wonderful Things

Quarterly.co is a subscription service that has found some creative thinkers, bloggers and creators of lovely things - and offered them a channel to share what they produce with us. Or, put more simply, for $25 a quarter a clever person sends you something that will hopefully interest, amazed or make you feel good.

The team behind this new venture put it best, when they describe Quarterly.co as a sort of physical manifestation of social media. You get more than just a blog post, more than tweets and links:

Quarterly is a new way to connect with the people you follow and find interesting. We spend so much of our lives connecting with people online that we forget the value of tangible interactions that happen in the real world. Quarterly wants to bridge that gap by allowing anyone to subscribe to influential contributors and receive physical items in the mail from them. It’s like a magazine, but instead of receiving words on a page, our subscribers receive actual items that tell a compelling story crafted by the contributor.

You can seea list of the contributors here, and subscribe right away.

This concept is a winner for me. In fact, I'd love to see this type of service set up for children. I know my geeklets get a real thrill from their magazine subscriptions to Australia' Double Helix club or the LEGO club. There is something wonderful about tangible, real things you can hold when so much of our world and what we do is virtual. It is why I've previosuly written about Supermechanical and their Tableau prototype.

There is certainly a gap there for some one to fill - providing fun, physical geeky activites for children to do with their parents using the Quartly.co model.

So, Quarterly.co - or someone else - give us the children's version. I'm interested.