The aspirations of this site are admirable and ambitious - like much of the Web, it is exciting mainly in potentia. Probably its strongest point is its reviews of new developments in c-space. The nonfiction articles tend to be short, well-written and idea-oriented, such as Lateiner's exploration of "the possibilities for human minds to exist in alternate media."
The subtitle of this 'zine is "prosaics and poetics for a wired world", and it has been declared one of the best online magazines by PC Magazine, though the qualifications PC Magazine has for judging fiction and poetry may be questioned. The lead editorial statement: "Cyberkind is the chronicle of a new society--the Networld. Not merely a collection of poetry, prose and art, Cyberkind catalogs the peculiar thoughts and emotions, the quirks and idiosyncracies, the culture of the networld, the child of technology. The words on these virtual pages in one way or another were all born of the Internet." This expresses the intent well, but the quality has a long way to grow.
Included are nonfiction, fiction, poetry (ordinary and hypertext), and an art gallery. This site offers new writers an opportunity to develop an audience for their writing. Like many Net sites, this one doesn't seem to be updated very often - there have been about 3 new articles in the last six months. But quality is what counts when information overload hits.
If you're looking for great poetry, buy an anthology. But you do begin to see some potential for the art form of hypertext poetry in works such as "Our Internet Poem" by William Gough. The same meditation on potential applies more forcefully to the "Art" section. Some of the "art" is boring, irritating and even degrading in its pretentious emptiness - the case of someone having nothing to say made into a virtue. It is also irritating from a technical point of to have to spend so much time downloading images that turn out to be an admitted waste of time. The "Pi" painting might make a nice magazine cover.
Overall, a site with much promise but often disappointing results.