<bsanders@ncsa.uiuc.edu (Barry C. Sanders) "Zippies & WIRED" (Apr 26, 10:57am)>
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On Apr 26, 10:57am, you proclaimed:
} I don't think "Zippies" exist, and if they do, I don't care. Only the most
} trend-conscious lemming-like fashion-followers read WIRED anyway. It is a
} magazine for yuppies who are too busy to actually be a part of any unique
} subculture, but who want to grab enough of the lingo to sound cool at
} parties. I'm just so bored with that kind of high-gloss no-substance hype.
} I call it 'noise'. In this case, 'high-gloss noise'. If you have an angle
} on WIRED magazine that suggests otherwise, let me know. I *want* it to be
} a good magazine, I just don't think it is.
}
} Barry "Blippie" Sanders
I see the bait... I see it, but I know I shouldn't bite it... the bait..
oo, it's too much.... BITE
Okay, I know I'm a bit biased coz I work there, but I'd like to
present the "angle which suggests otherwise". The article by John
Perry Barlow on new paradigms for copyright in the March issue this
year absolutely floored me. Evidently others think we have some
merit, as we just won the Magazine Publishers' Association Award for
Excellence (analogous to the Academy Awards for movies), the first
time ever a magazine has won the same year it has started up.
I hear the same complaints all the time - we're not technical enough
for the people "who really know what's going on", we're too flashy for
people who do most of their reading from a CRT, we're always a day late
and a dollar short when it comes to net.happenings, etc. Folks, we're
not trying to be PC Week. There will always be a significant lag (in
Internet terms) between the time we hear about something and when you
read it in Wired. Right now they are finalizing the layout for issue
*2.08*, august's issue.
As for the Zippie article, I simply don't know. Jules Marshall was
the author, he lives in the Netherlands, and his email address was
printed in the magazine, so I suggest mailing HIM to see exactly
what's up. We have three full-time fact checkers at Wired, but how do
you check something like that? It just said they were planning on
coming out and throwing a party at the Grand Canyon, and 4 months ago
maybe this was the case. The article did seem to pretty accurately
discuss the music scene around this culture (hence the relevance to
IDM)
So anyways, that's my spiel.
Brian