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10:19 am Mon
Nov 15, 2010
Fast Company seeks "Most Influential Women in Tech" nominations
Fast Company plans to put a woman on the cover sometime in 2011. Unlike women on the covers of other tech magazines under recent fire, she will be a technology executive and she will be wearing a shirt. (thanks Maggie)
Scalpers drive Harry Potter play prices from £140 to £8,327
What do you get when you combine fantastic wealth-inequality with winner-take-all entertainment economics and high-speed trading algorithms? The Viagogo marketplace, where botmasters who’ve harvested every available ticket for the new Harry Potter play, Harry Potter & the Cursed Child are auctioning them off to the war-criminals and financiers who’ve colonized London since the Blair years […]
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How self-driving cars could make everything worse, and what to do about it
The promise of self-driving cars is to take our vehicle fleets from 5% utilization to near-100% utilization, reducing congestion, parking problems, emissions and road accidents. But what if the cheapest way to “park” your autonomous vehicle is to have it endlessly circle the block while you’re at work? What do we do about the lost […]
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As social media centralized, blogging's core infrastructure has withered
When “social media” meant “blogs,” there were many tools, services and protocols that comprised an infrastructure for federated, open, loosely joined interaction: the rise of the social giants has killed off much of this infrastructure, all but erasing it from our memories.
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WordPress Wizard Bundle: Maybe the first step toward being your own boss, just $49
Whether you’re trying to start a quirky news blog, open a local Irish pub, or sell handmade furniture out of your garage, one thing’s for sure: your business is not going to succeed if you don’t build it a professional-looking website. That’s why we’re excited to share the WordPress Wizard Bundle.This is a bundle that includes 12 courses about […]
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Eliminate your ancient USB flash drive with drag and drop file sharing
If you’ve ever tried to quickly share a file with someone, you know there’s nothing actually quick about it. Between permissions, log-in credentials, size limitations, and download issues, it’s a miracle if you’re ever able to share the document at all. That’s why we think Droplr Pro is so essential.Droplr Pro lets you quickly, easily, and […]
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Don’t be that friend at the music festival—be the festival mom with this survival kit instead
You won’t want to hit another music festival without these essentials. Read on to find out what we’re packing for the final festivals of the year.This Smart Charger Always Knows Where The Car Is ParkedIn addition to charging your phone, the Zus Smart Car Charger and Locator ($29.99) helps you locate your car no matter […]
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Anon should totally game this to put Meg and Carly at the top.
Wow! I hadn’t heard about the Wired covers complaint. It has to be one of the best complaint letter I’ve ever read. It’s civil but astute and totally nails how pervasive the problem is.
It was interesting to see that Wired’s editor took the time to respond, but it was also eye-roll worthy to see him whine about how he has to sell magazines and that it’s the market forcing him to stick to bewbs (I guess there aren’t enough intelligent, tech-savy, non-frat boy readers to keep such publications afloat). I guess he’s saying that Wired is smart and creative enough to promote and celebrate daring new technologies but not to discard inane marketing strategies :(
I like Wired, but let my subscription lapse sometime ago. Now I just tend to purchase any issue that looks interesting when I am at Barnes & Noble.
I was too embarrassed by the cover to even pick it up. Is that really the cover necessary to sell a tech/science article in that issue?
I think too, a couple years ago I recall a cover about an article on cancer and the photo was the profile of a woman showing her breasts in full profile with full detail.
I don’t consider myself a prude and have no problem with the human form…But we know these covers are there to simply titillate. It’s not like you see the male form presented in this way on their covers.
Shirt on or shirt off is fine with me, as long as she’s not a white woman wearing a native headdress and calling herself “the big squaw”.
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If I recall correctly I’ve seen pictures of men with 6 pack abs on the cover of Wired. The magazine is kind of forgettable, though. It was just my junk bathroom reading until my subscription ran out.
I took some graphics arts classes and came away with it with the impression that print design was more about visual appeal than it was about ideology.