An ode to Wired Magazine: Issue 17.09
I guess it's only fitting that a magazine focused on the impact of technology on culture, the economy, and politics, has figured out a way to avoid (or slow down) a trip to print publication purgatory.
Using inventive ideas like hiding puzzles within the pages, or urging readers to find a missing reporter in the real world (who, I might add, contributed a story on losing one's identity), Wired Magazine has taken the idea that people have more fun when they're interacting with something, and parlayed it into a successful print run.
All magazines should take a cue from this strategy. It's one thing to read how fast Usain Bolt runs the 100 meters. It would be quite another to watch a video of the reporter running the same distance to understand how far we lag behind.
But rather than continue to wax on about the most recent issue, here's a haiku that I drafted just for you.
Journalist on lam
Craigslist founder will not change
Digitized Fab Four
If that doesn't cause you to run to your nearest newsstand and pick up the latest issue — before both the newsstand and magazine are extinct — I don't know what will.
