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The Economist reduced to reblogging Wired
My Wired essay "Kill Your Blog" has spawned a charmingly identical piece in The Economist's print edition this week. Same theme, same Jason Calacanis quote from July. But read this part out loud: "A decade ago, PDAs were the preserve of digerati who liked using electronic address books and calendars. Now they are gone, but they are also ubiquitous, as features of almost every mobile phone." I'd love to meet The Economist's anonymous author, if only to confirm that anyone on Earth actually talks that way. -
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Kill your blog
@WiredReader: Kill yr blog. 2004 over. Google won't find you. Too much cruft from HuffPo, NYT. Commenters are tards. C u on Facebook? That's all you need to read from my essay at the front of Wired's new November issue. The rest is good, thanks to stellar editing, but these days a 600-word essay — and a headline like "Kill Your Blog" — only stand out in print. See? They changed it online. -
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Expired Wired: All of last season's stories, today
We ought to have sympathy for Wired; the monthly magazine format doesn't lend itself to the quick, first-on-the-scene style of journalism for which the tech audience hungers. Still, when we've seen half the content of the latest issue before we cracked it open, it leaves us asking, what's the point of reading Wired? More » -
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September's Wired Effect: The
Anyone who has perused Wired magazine knows how difficult it is to navigate. A popular rant: Why does the Contents section never contain the page numbers for the cover stories that compelled you to purchase the magazine in the first place? In this vein, we're helping to sum up the important stuff, as pertains to you, and even including handy pagination. Don't thank us, just yet. Save the accolades for the comments section. More »RebirthDeath of Music Industry -
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"Hidden voice of Wired" passes away
This weekend, the Valley lost a sharp journalist and a good man. Bill Goggins, a former editor at Wired Magazine, died while running the San Francisco Marathon this Sunday. More » -
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Wired is expired
People always wondered how Wired Magazine justified its ink-and-paper existence — wasn't Wired's premise something like "the future is digital"? More » -
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Valleywag feature: Chris Anderson's Lost Song Found
Valleywag feature: Chris Anderson's Lost Song Found More » -
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BusinessWeek screws up, and Condé Nast doesn't care about the Internet
BusinessWeek's story on the purchase of Wired News is worse than useless. Writer Jon Fine (pictured here in his New Media glasses) rushed out a piece as thoroughly researched as a Gawker Media blog post. More » -
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Six things Wired needs to do with Wired News
Now that Wired News is reunited with Wired proper, the healing process can begin for the tiny online outlet. An industry reporter told Valleywag just what Wired needs to do. More » -
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Wired insider: Wired News staff are bedraggled Lost characters
When Condé Nast announced last night that it bought Wired News, the press acted like Wired was rescuing a desperate crew of disaster survivors. According to a friend of Valleywag at Wired HQ, that's exactly what happened. More »
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