Talk:Wired magazine
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Internal ref to external link
Wernher, in an article this short, it is hardly necessary to include an internal reference to the external links. I mean, readers these days don't have that short an attention span. -- Viajero 14:45, 9 Nov 2003 (UTC)
- OK, no problem – the reason I felt the reference should be included was to make sure interested readers would discover the ext. lk to Wired UK's 'rise and fall' (lacking an internal Wired UK lk) :-) -- Wernher 14:58, 9 Nov 2003 (UTC)
NTK connection
I have another question for you: in the article by Batelle and on the NTK website, I could see not explicit connection between Wired UK and Need to Know. Do you have any idea what it is? TIA -- Viajero 15:18, 9 Nov 2003 (UTC)
- No idea whatsoever. Too bad the contributor who wrote that didn't inform about the (alleged) connection. --Wernher
State of Wired as of 2003
Werner, regarding this line:
- as of 2003 it still attracts quite significant personalities of the IT world for detailed interviews, such as Linus Torvalds of Linux fame.
with all due respect: Wired is a computer magazine, no? Is there a computer magazine on earth which hasn't run an interview with Linus? I realize that Wikipedia is not paper but one should still try to keep an eye on the Big Picture and be judicious about what to include and what to leave out of an article, whatever its length. Please don't get me wrong: many of your edits to this text have been great, like adding the Wired 40 just now. BTW, I moved the external link down to where the others are. Cheers, -- Viajero 10:15, 11 Dec 2003 (UTC)
- Thanks for the encouragement. My rationale for including the Linus line was that Wired usually features longer and more detailed interviews than most computer 'rags' out there, so I wanted to pull attention towards that fact. However, I too notice that by and large the article/interview to product placement ratio of the magazine is dropping. I long for the days of Wired publishing stuff like Neal Stephenson's Hacker Tourist %-). --Wernher 23:16, 12 Dec 2003 (UTC)
- While, why don't you add a line to that effect? Something like: In its heyday, Wired was known for publishing long interview with computer industry celebrities, such as Neal Stephenson... or something like that? Just a suggestion. -- Viajero 23:21, 12 Dec 2003 (UTC)
What is Wired, really?
Re previous Q: Wired Magazine is not completely characterized by the term "computer magazine". It's more about the consequences of digital technology in culture across the world. In some sense, almost a digitally oriented "fashion magazine". Bevo 22:23, 13 Dec 2003 (UTC)
- You have a point; it is not a conventional computer magazine like PC World or something. When I looked at an issue a couple months ago, it remined me a lot of Vanity Fair -- Viajero 00:10, 14 Dec 2003 (UTC)
- For that matter, they have done a number of articles on technology in general... not just digital tech. I reference the artical on the rise of air-ship (aka blimps) use and the german company who has been sitting pretty with multiple US commercial and military intrests, as well as the article on power storage devices that are /not/ digital or acid based, articles on genomics etc. Ramius V. Schweitzer 04:02, Nov 27, 2004 (UTC)
Press release re sale of Wired
Not quite sure whether or not to include this in the ext lk list, so I store it here pending discussion/decision. --Wernher 06:52, 19 Dec 2003 (UTC)
- Wired Ventures to sell its magazine (http://amsterdam.nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-9805/msg00025.html) (press release, 12 May 1998)
State of Wired in 2004
Werner, two updates worth noting:
After suffering with the rest of the tech category after the bust, the magazine (which is part of Conde Nast) has been growing again, both in circulation and in ad pages [1] (http://www.plesser.com/press/WIRED_TechMarket_9.03.pdf)
The website, meanwhile, has been sold to Daum, a South Korea portal, along with the rest of Lycos [2] (http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,64431,00.html?tw=wn_3bizhead)
Purging external links from text
Lexor, "wikification" that removes external links from within the text strikes me as profoundly anti-Web, even if it is apparently Wikipedia practice. The power of the Web is its ability to easily and seemlessly connect the user to knowledge. Systematically replacing external links with internal links to a Wikipedia page that doesn't exist and then moving the link to the bottom of the page reserved for References (when they aren't "references" but the actual thing itself) does not seem to me to be an improvement. That this is being done to an entry about a Web pioneer is even more ironic.
Wikipedia article
For those who haven't seen it, they have just done a very nice feature on us (http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.03/wiki.html?tw=wn_story_top5). — Trilobite (Talk) 05:44, 5 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Contradiction
"Wired's first issue (1.01) de-emphasized the internet, and primarily talked about interactive games, cell-phone hacking, digital special effects, military simulations, and Japanese otaku. Despite rumors to the contrary, the first issue contained many references to the internet, including a long article on online-date and internet sex, and a turorial on installing a "bozo filter" to eliminate online posts to by trolls, among other references." These two sentences slightly contradict each other, it seems. Andre (talk) 23:26, Jun 11, 2005 (UTC)