Wired Magazine
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- grooves1200
anyone have an old issue around with a "collophon" page in the back that says what paper they're using. they used to run it all the time, but they took it out recently.
thanks, sean
- slinky0
do you know what year(s) they ran that..? i have a few here...
oh.. my dumbness... what is a Collophon?
- grooves12000
my bad, it's actually colophon, which was a box they put on a page in the back explaining what they listened to during production of the issue, what technology they issued, what paper stocks, etc.
they still have it, but have chopped it down a lot and no longer list paper stock. i think it's fairly recently that they chopped it down, so if you have an issue from last year maybe they have it listed?
thanks! sean
- sp0
I'll give a look tonight. I have tons of those laying around. The mag used to be good, now it's a subscription to get if you want to buy something...it's all ads.
And, the content....leaves quite a bit to be desired.
- 4cY0
i haven't bought them for a looong period...my last issue is dec.2001.
Anyway, the colophon has a LOT of text..so I think I better scan it..
one moment please....
- slinky0
sorry for beating you to the punch 4cy
- grooves12000
THANKS SLINKY!
- unknown0
The loss of the detailed colophon is indicative of the change of priorities at wired...
regarding sp's comment that it used to be good - yeah...it was so much better.
I went to a small talk with one of the associate editors from wired who was basically brought in from New York magazine (and a stint at GQ) to redesign the style of the mag to a more 'blurb' styled mag with lots of product placement (he was chosen because thats basically what all city mags do).
he talked about the new style, with lots of short, product related boxed clips, etc. he said that wired basically had to do that to survive - people dont read long articles.
I wanted to say that he made the magazine a spineless toilet rag (which is where most of mine reside now), but I held my tounge.
remember those beatiful 3-5 page design spreads that used to grace the first pages? I loved those...
- 4cY0
NO, Slinky!
THANKS for beating me to the punch.
I just noticed the cables of my scanner were all disconnected, so..
:)
- sp0
Yes I do remember. And, I also remember that Wired was a magazine that hackers as well as technology afficionados alike could enjoy.
I agree, and working in a company that publishes 6 magazines, I know that to survive advertising is key.
Every publisher has to sell ads in order to publish their book. I know a publisher, personally, who used to put out a state wide architecture magazine - it cost 20K to publish it.
That's a lot of fucking money.
Unfortunately, with Wired though, content suffered as well as the inclusion of ads.
IMO, of course.