Wired and late breaking news

I was just at Barnes and Noble killing time and I picked up a copy of Wired to browse through. I ended up getting it because it's nice to have something to read on the can or during the many hours I have nothing better to do.

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.

The guy was friendly and I said, in a friendly way, oh, not really, because, you know, it's in print so it's already about a month out of date. He nodded and smiled and I wandered off feeling like an alien.

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.