Experimental magazine to be created in 48 hours, start to finish

A group of wacky magazine mavens are about to launch 48 Hour magazine, described as "a raucous    experiment in using new tools to erase media's old limits". The goal is to produce a finished website and a glossy paper version of the magazine in two days. The originators say:

We'll unveil a theme and you'll have 24 hours to produce and submit your work. We'll take the next 24 to snip, mash and gild it. The end results will be a shiny website and a beautiful glossy paper magazine, delivered right to your old-fashioned mailbox. We promise it will be insane. Better yet, it might even work.

The idea is being guided and promoted by six individuals, including Derek Powazek, a San Francisco author, designer and editor of fray.com. He is the co-founder of the photography magazine JPG and "chief of awesome" for MagCloud.Others in the guiding collective are Heather Powazek Champ, Dylan Fareed, a designer and printmaker, Wired magazine contributing editor Mathew Honan, Alexis Madrigal, a Wired.com science and energy staff writer,  and writer and editor Sarah Rich, who is co-founder of Foodprint and a former senior editor of Dwell magazine.

Interested participants can be anywhere (and we've seen lots of tweets about people in Canada who want to be part of this idea). The theme for "Issue Zero" will be announced May 7, submissions close May 8 and May 9 the magazine wraps up and is shipped to the printer.