Get Wired

Jan 25, 2003
Johan Svensson

Wired cover I think I’ll start subscribing to Wired. I’ve found their articles very spot-on and insightful, though I mostly read their tech stuff. Subscribing from over seas would cost an arm and a leg, but luckily we have Press Stop here in Sweden, who import a large bunch of magazines from all over the world.

79 SEK per issue, delivered to your mail box. The Real Life one. I’ll buy a few single issues to have a look at Wired first before I subscribe via Press Stop.

Argh. I have to add Press Stop to the list of stores to avoid when I have money available. Adbusters and Metropolis look like interesting magazines as well.

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3 Responses

  1. Tomas says:
    January 25, 2003 at 16:58

    Wired is a lovely magazine, I used to read it a lot. Great articles, as you know, and a nice print-design too. Well, sometimes it goes overboard but most of the time it’s nice. But then there’s the commercials; they make up at least half of the magazine, I kid you not!

    So, while I like the magazine, I found it to not be worth the 79 SEK since I can read the good articles online anyways..

    Other than that, Wired has become sort of.. I dunno, bland? It used to be this really cool and outthere magazine, trendsetting and all that. MTV used to be that too, and we all know what they’ve become. Wired isn’t as pointless, dull and bad as MTV has become, but it’s going in that direction, it seems..

    Doesn’t hurt to pick up a few copies of Wired though, I’m not sure about a subscription however.

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  2. Nicklas says:
    January 26, 2003 at 00:31

    Wired used to be dull when they got lost with the IT business delirium. Now they have managed to get better once again. To aspire to be trendsetting is both pointless and misdirected.

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  3. Gustav Holmberg says:
    January 28, 2003 at 10:41

    They used to have a quote from their patron saint, Marshall McLuhan, in every issue. They don’t anymore. Too bad.

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