When I was checking out, the guy at the counter made friendly conversation by asking if I was getting it to "stay on top of things".
My thoughts went like this:
- Huh?
- Stay on top of things? With Wired?
- Oh he's joking
- Wait, he's not joking.
- Oh, hang on, he's a norm.
I remember when I was reading Wired to stay on top of stuff. That was about 6 years ago. RSS feeds and iGoogle have changed all that for me. Now I enjoy Wired precisely because it's a little more relaxed. They've done the research for me, digested it, put some thought into the analysis. It's like the week in review for tech stuff (only not TWiT, I know).
Funny that Wired has moved from being cutting-edge for me to post-news roundup in the span of just a few years. Is it like that for anyone else reading the blog? I know both of you, and I've got my guesses.
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Waterfalls and Barnes and Noble?? Clearly you are not working hard enough. And if you're not going to work you should visit historic Carlisle. Talk about late breaking news--we've got the American Revolution here!
Nice illustrative point of how the speed of information delivery/consumption is changing for all of us. Now, Wired for me is a mix of some old news digested in a unique way as well as new information that I may have missed in the growing stream of RSS I try to peruse. It will be interesting to see where we are in a few years,as wireless carriers blanket the U.S. with Wi-Fi access. Will everything from our mp3 players to our refrigerators pump us full of RSS during every waking moment and how can Print Pubs compete?
sorry, i'm too busy watching L&O to worry about being up-to-date... :-P Hey, look, you've got more than two readers!
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