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Curious, populist, and participatory the new online magazine named or the U.S.’s most common surname wants to include you in the cultural dialog.

SMITH magazine launches

Now there’s a mag that’s unabashedly harnessing the infinite pool of online writing talent into one monthly publication. Features, anecdotes, free-form stories, SMITH Magazine sits on the pulse of today’s cultural narrative.

Spidey Senses Blog

The web works very well for them. Long interviews, personal stories (both long and short), photo collections are accompanied by daily blog-like entries. Each piece allows for comments which are meant to tease the reader into becoming a participant and ideally tease their own story out of them.

We’re all Smiths

… You just have to have a Smith-like story or an interest in reading about, well, the Smiths, the Johnsons, the Joneses, the Williamses and everyone else out there in America. “Everybody has a story, and everybody should have a place to tell that story,” said magazine founder Larry Smith. …

Salon.com Broadsheet

Salon contributor Larry Smith has launched a new online “blog-a-zine” titled — appropriately enough — Smith. Its most arresting feature so far is the gallery of 16 images of “Beautiful Pregnant Women.” The first batch of photos, taken by Jennifer Maya Luz Pliego, are super-arty and gorgeous.

Viva la Smith!

… a new online magazine dedicated to covering and celebrating personal stories. It’s all about elevating the collective narrative that’s been enabled in no small way by–yes I’m going to say it–the information technology revolution. The title is, appropriately, Smith. It look really great!

True Cost of War

GNN contributor Paul Rieckhoff is interviewed by the hot new Smith magazine. (I didn’t tell you, but there’s a beautiful spread of naked pregnant women)

Attention All Smiths, Today’s Your Day

… It also honors another Smith — Jedediah Smith — who was born Jan. 6, 1798, and became a well-known explorer and mountain man in the American West, according to Larry Smith, founder and editor-in-chief of Smith magazine in New York. … “A lot of people don’t know about National Smith Day,” Larry Smith said. …