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| Publisher: Conde Nast Publications
Category: Magazine
List Price: $59.88
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Avg. Customer Rating:   (137 reviews)
Sales Rank: 3
Format: Magazine Subscription, Print
Language: English (Published)
Type: Consumer magazine
Media: Magazine
Subscription Issues: 12
Subscription Length: 12 Months
Issues Per Year: 12
First Issue Lead Time: 6-10 Weeks
ASIN: B00005N7TL
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Availability: Usually ships in 1 to 3 months
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| Customer Reviews:
 Wired??? September 25, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I found this magazine to be mostly ads, and the articles were not at all what I expected. Seems more like opinions then researched articles. I guess I missed the true point of this magazine, not at all what I expected. I'm 50 and not really a geek, just love techno stuff, but didn't find this very helpful to me. I have never cancelled a subscription to a magazine before this, but in this case I had to.
One-stop read for all things tech September 24, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Great magazine for keeping up with all things tech but also exploring how technology helps people deal with their jobs and improve their home lives.
 Casual Technology Reading R'us September 21, 2008
I love this magazine for casual absorption of random technology and success stories.
-C.W.
Um, where is it?? September 17, 2008
0 out of 4 found this review helpful
I have not received a single issue of this magazine. So my review would be that it's full of fail.
Chair-side companion for the PC-aware September 17, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Wired magazine and its many sister south-of-Market Street (San Francisco, a hip area) publications have been leaders in aggregating what's important for people to read and to know in order to keep pace with changes in technology.
Sitting down with "Wired" is like sitting down with "Dwell", an architecture magazine - you want to do everything you read about. With "Wired", however, it's possible to achieve, or at least imagine achieving, the aspirations of the stories' subjects.
The front part of the book has letters and regular pieces. My favorite is "Tired/Wired/Expired", where a clever person takes five or six trendy concepts through their linguistic cycles and tosses them by the side of the road.
There is no way to predict any specific article in an upcoming issue, but in general you'll find articles on hard technology, human-computer interfaces, and intellectual freedom. The magazine's designers have given it at least one makeover, and it's much friendlier to 52-year-old eyes than it was when it and "Mondo 2000" were competing for readership.
"Wired", for all its hipness, is a Conde Nast publication (as is Vanity Fair and the New Yorker). As such, you have a right to expect a quality magazine. On the other hand, the subscription rate is widely discounted, so your right is lessened a little. Nevertheless, it's a pleasure to find it in the mailbox when I get home from work.
For what it's worth, my other subscriptions are the "New Yorker", "Dwell", "Booklist" (a professional publication), "Westways" (AAA magazine), and "The Week". Keep your eye on "The Week"...it's worth keeping alive.
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