Drexel University Launches DragonFire

Posted on July 6, 2005

The Philadelphia Business Journal reported last week that Drexel University's Pennoni Honors College would be launching an online magazine called DragonFire.

The publication, www.dfire.org is comparable to Salon or Slate but with added features such as free subscriptions, no pop-up ads, no banner ads and no need to scroll, the university said.
Site visitors will be able to listen to authors read submissions, and the Drexel-DragonFire Translation Cooperative, a group of Drexel student volunteers whose second language is English, will translate submissions into various languages including Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Hindi, Greek and Turkish.

The first issue of DragonFire is online now. The issue includes an interview with Noam Chomsky, the 76-year-old Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor of linguistics who is credited with the Theory of Universal Grammar.

Update: Note DragonFire is no longer being published.