I Love Wired Magazine
I love Wired magazine.
I love the thoughtful writing. I love the thoughtful layout and visual design.
Hell, I even love the thoughtful ads more than ads I see anywhere else.
I love that the focus is on where technology meets culture.
I don’t know why I don’t read it much, that I choose to spend my time elsewhere. I don’t know whether it is overwhelm, where there are too many issues to choose from. I don’t know if it is a naively frustrated impulse, that if “I can’t easily access or own the entire physical back-catalog, then what’s the point?”
I have signed up to, and paid for the website. It’s not the same. Trending articles, in-line ads, and a thousand unrelated links interrupt the flow.
I have read the magazine digitally through Libby. It’s much better, but still, unwieldy.
I want to write, and capture, that technology meets culture. I do already, I suppose. I previously created an e-zine for half a year, before folding it due to large amount of time required and a lack of readership.
I have started writing a blog, something a tad more science fiction, but still technology meets culture. And this has done more for my mind and comprehension than anything else in recent memory.
So I write now: both posts public, and many drafts private, just ordering my thoughts. And I will read Wired, from time to time, if not always.
And I think I’ve found a way that is both backwards in time and forwards, and is beautiful.