Wired Magazine

[Perknose]

6-7 years ago or so I got a sub to Wired Magazine figuring THIS would be the mag to have and read. I remember being sorely disappointed and never renewed.

Now, I'm getting it again. Frankly, I don't even remember signing up. It must have been some deal where you have to sign up for three mags @ $4-5 a year each. I know I wouldn't have payed more.

I finally picked one up and read through it. It's greatly improved from what I remember . . . not bad at all.

That is all.

 

[GodlessAstronomer]

I don't read the magazine but I subscribe to the website's RSS feed and they consistently put out great articles.

 

[dennilfloss]

Ars premium subscribers get it (though I'm still waiting for mine to show up).

 

[Mike Gayner]

I don't read the magazine but I subscribe to the website's RSS feed and they consistently put out great articles.

Do you have to subscribe to get the good content?

The only Wired article I remember reading was that really good Duke Nukem one.

 

[Q]

It's not bad. I just started Bloomsburg Businessweek and I really like it, probably my favorite sub so far,

 

[0roo0roo]

is good toilet reading.
like it or not flipping through a mag still beats wading through a website sometimes.

 

[TheLonelyPhoenix]

I get a little sick of them predicting the end of things every issue.

Some of my favorites include the end of the World Wide Web, e-commerce, and science.

 

[sdifox]

Wait, someone still subscribes to Wired? In Paper?

 

[M0oG0oGaiPan]

i bought it @ ~$4/yr for a couple years. digital magazines are pretty terrible. Might be better if I had a kindle or something similar. Plus it's easier to read when you're taking the browns to the superbowl. paving the hershey highway. dropping the kids off at the pool. etc.

 

[0roo0roo]

Wait, someone still subscribes to Wired? In Paper?

like it or not wired online is convenient in some ways, but inferior in others.

 

[KeithP]

I haven't looked at it in awhile but the last time I did the design/layout of the magazine was horrible. The articles might have been great but when you have a design that seems to discourage reading does it really matter?

-KeithP

 

[FeuerFrei]

Actually I stopped subscribing to WIRED in June because they are so full of themselves as 'trendsetters' and idolize technology as our savior. Their breathless hype is tiresome. Also I just couldn't keep funding the spread of environMENTALIST propaganda. I actually repeated that over the phone when they called to prompt renewal.

I appreciated their articles on computer/internet topics, but issues on that subject were once or twice a year and coverage of biomechanics, genetics, ecotech, or crime just left me yawning.

I'd been a subscriber for 5 years at least.

 

[Perknose]

Also I just couldn't keep funding the spread of environMENTALIST propaganda. I actually repeated that over the phone when they called to prompt renewal.

I'm sure CSR Sanjit (Bob to you, Mr. Important Subscriber) was properly chastened and didn't make fun of you to the whole room after you hung up.

 

[0roo0roo]

I haven't looked at it in awhile but the last time I did the design/layout of the magazine was horrible. The articles might have been great but when you have a design that seems to discourage reading does it really matter?

-KeithP

maybe u are esp dazzled by color. itlooks fine to me, like it or not any magazine is easier to read than a monitor

 

[yllus]

I'll be ceasing my subscription in a few months - I haven't found any of their articles especially interesting in almost a year.

Oddly enough GQ remains my golden standard for print magazines. I wonder if Playboy really does have good articles?

 

[dwell]

"Wired" is a crappy name for a tech mag. Wireless is where it's at these days.

 

[FeuerFrei]

I'm sure CSR Sanjit (Bob to you, Mr. Important Subscriber) was properly chastened and didn't make fun of you to the whole room after you hung up.

You feel that sting?? That's pride, fukk'n with you.

 

[Perknose]

You feel that sting?? That's pride, fukk'n with you.

Your effing deluded if you think that you pompously telling outsourced phone jockey Bob (Sanjit) why YOU, Mr. Important Subscriber, are not renewing Wired makes any difference at all to anyone, anywhere, ever.

If that's your idea of pride then go on down to the parking lot of your local supermarket and tell the pimply-faced teen tasked with wheeling all the carts back in that YOU, Mr. Important Vegetable Buyer, aren't going to patronize GenericMart anymore because you don't like the way he wheels those carts!

He'll be just as impressed as Sanjit!

 

[Perknose]

"Wired" is a crappy name for a tech mag. Wireless is where it's at these days.

Wireless is an early 1900's name for the radio, back when radio was . . . the bees knees.

Wired is a sixties idiom for "tuned" or "baked" . . . mmmmmmm, baked. :biggrin:

Wired is also an later term for "in the know," as in "plugged in" or "connected."

On the whole, I prefer the mag to be called Wired.

 

[zinfamous]

is good toilet reading.
like it or not flipping through a mag still beats wading through a website sometimes.

this. I can't stand reading articles on the internet.

Wired is much improved. I usually only read it at an airport. I'd likely subscribe to it if it weren't like most other magazines: 60% adspace.

The only sub I have is The New Yorker, which is fucking awesome. very limited ads and always amazing articles. always.

 

[zinfamous]

I'll be ceasing my subscription in a few months - I haven't found any of their articles especially interesting in almost a year.

Oddly enough GQ remains my golden standard for print magazines. I wonder if Playboy really does have good articles?

Playboy actually does have excellent articles. ...at least they did up until ~5 years ago, which is probably the last time I opened one.

Esquire is also good, as a GQ type of magazine. I've never looked at GQ, but I imagine them to be quite similar. I can't really compare, though.

 

[Dankk]

I've only been subscribed to Wired for a couple of years. I like it. My only problem is that they go overboard with sensationalism sometimes (The web is dead? wtf?), and they also let their Apple fanboyism show a little too much... but other than that, the magazine is always fill of interesting stuff to read. The content is good and I like the typography and design.

And I agree sometimes it's a refreshing change to sit down with a paper magazine in-hand rather than reading off of a computer monitor.

 

[0roo0roo]

this. I can't stand reading articles on the internet.

Wired is much improved. I usually only read it at an airport. I'd likely subscribe to it if it weren't like most other magazines: 60% adspace.

The only sub I have is The New Yorker, which is fucking awesome. very limited ads and always amazing articles. always.

yea there is just the speed aspect, with a mag yo can flip through, you can browse before you choose an article far easier...websites are still rather inferior that way. mabye in the future with massively faster web+ super large displays you can splay out a ton of pages of a website and sorta cover flow through them a bit.... i dunno.
maybe high dpi screens might help.

but yea it is hard to concentrate reading a long article on a computer screen.