Wired magazine, which I read solely to find links to what people much cooler than me are working on, recently introduced another redesign. I hate it. The magazine is all but unreadable. As it was in the beginning. Should I keep the subscription, hoping that what goes around comes around and that Wired designers will eventually (and again) come to their senses? Or should I finally acknowledge that I will never, ever, be that hip?
4 responses so far ↓
1 greglas // Mar 1, 2007 at 9:33 am
It is a Conde Nast publications (Vogue, GQ). I always thought the lack of readability and the “we’re so much cooler than anyone reading this” was consistent with the Fashion Mag ethos: a feature, not a bug.
2 Eric Goldman // Mar 1, 2007 at 12:23 pm
I can’t believe you still subscribe! It feels like I dropped my subscription a decade ago (OK, it was probably only 6-7 years ago). Eric.
3 Mike Madison // Mar 1, 2007 at 1:30 pm
There’s inertia, of course. Also, you (Eric) are much closer to the Bay Area — the Fountain of Technological Hip — than I am, and you were even when you didn’t live there!
4 greglas // Mar 1, 2007 at 7:50 pm
Hey, it’s 12 bucks a year!
Inertia is a pretty good excuse — though I subscribe mostly because I’m holding out for one more CueCat. I love my Wired CueCat!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CueCat
Fwiw, other Wired Readers also have moments of self-doubt:
http://www.peterme.com/archives/000060.html
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