Wired magazine


If iPads are the future of magazines, then the future is bleak

Wired magazine was the hyped iPad app that everyone was waiting for, the one that would show the world how exciting mags could be. Except, it’s expensive, huge and barely interactive.

Will Wired survive the Condé carnage?

Gawker assesses the shaky future of tech-bible Wired. Faced with sinking ad sales, major staff cuts and losses, and at the mercy of an ailing publisher, how much longer can the mag and its website cling on?

VIDEO: How a Wired cover is born

Wired magazine’s Creative Director Scott Dadich explains how the magazine’s design and editorial team conceptualise and create their eye-popping, super-sleek covers.

Oh, the irony: Wired editor steals content for book about free content

The Virginia Quarterly Review have found a bunch of plagarised passages in Wired magazine editor Chris Anderson’s new book Free: The Future of a Radical Price — mostly ripped from Wikipedia.

Reviving Wired magazine

Wired’s circulation has been on a steady rise and its website snares 11 million visitors a month — but 50% of its advertising has been lost in the economic slump. What now?

Razer: Election 2.0? Ctrl+alt+del

Weeks ago in a grandiose humour, some foolish bint predicted that Election 07 would be shaped by the evolved hand of the digital native. That was me. Sorry. I was wrong. Wrong like Wikipedia, writes Helen Razer.