| Wired | |
|---|---|
| Editor-in-Chief | Chris Anderson |
| Former Editors | Louis Rossetto |
| Categories | Technology, Internet, Computer industry |
| Frequency | Monthly |
| Total Circulation (2007) |
706,494 |
| First issue | January 1993 |
| Company | Condé Nast Publications |
| Country |  United States |
| Language | English |
| Website | http://wired.com |
| ISSN | 1059-1028 |
Wired is a full-color monthly American magazine and on-line periodical published in San Francisco, California since March 1993. Chris Anderson (born 1961 is editor-in-chief of Wired Magazine, which has won a National Magazine Award under his tenure Louis Rossetto (born 1949) is an American journalist He is best known as the founder and former publisher of Wired magazine. Technology is a broad concept that deals with a Species ' usage and knowledge of Tools and Crafts and how it affects a species' ability to control and adapt The Internet is a global system of interconnected Computer networks Computer industry is a collective term used to describe the whole range of businesses involved in developing Computer software, designing Computer hardware and Condé Nast Publications Inc is a worldwide Magazine Publishing company The United States of America —commonly referred to as the English is a West Germanic language originating in England and is the First language for most people in the United Kingdom, the United States An International Standard Serial Number ( ISSN) is a unique eight-digit number used to identify a print or electronic Periodical publication. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Magazines, periodicals or serials are Publications generally published on a regular schedule containing a variety of articles, generally The City and County of San Francisco is the fourth most populous city California ( is a US state on the West Coast of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. Owned by Condé Nast Publications, it reports on how technology affects culture, the economy, and politics. Condé Nast Publications Inc is a worldwide Magazine Publishing company
Wired's editorial stance was originally inspired by the ideas of Canadian media theorist Marshall McLuhan, credited as the magazine's "patron saint" in early colophons. Country to "Dominion of Canada" or "Canadian Federation" or anything else please read the Talk Page The patron saint of a particular group of people is a Saint who would protect and 'love' the group and its members A colophon in publishing can refer to A brief description usually located at the end of a book describing production notes relevant to the edition A printer's Wired has both been admired and disliked for its strong libertarian principles, its enthusiastic embrace of techno-utopianism, and its sometimes experimental layout with its bold use of fluorescent and metallic inks. Libertarianism is a term used by a broad spectrum of political philosophies which prioritize individual Liberty and seek to minimize or even abolish the Techno-utopianism or technoutopianism refers to any Ideology based on the belief that advanced Science and technology will eventually bring about an
From 1998 to 2006, Wired magazine and Wired News (which publishes at Wired. Wired News is an online technology news Website, formerly known as HotWired, that split off from Wired magazine when the com) had separate owners. However, throughout that time, Wired News remained responsible for reprinting Wired magazine's content online, due to a business agreement made when Condé Nast purchased the magazine (but not the website). In July 2006, Condé Nast announced an agreement to buy Wired News for $25 million, reuniting the magazine with its website.
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History
The magazine was founded by American journalist Louis Rossetto and his partner Jane Metcalfe in 1993 with initial backing from software entrepreneur Charlie Jackson and industry pundit Nicholas Negroponte of the MIT Media Lab, who was a regular columnist for six years, through 1998. Louis Rossetto (born 1949) is an American journalist He is best known as the founder and former publisher of Wired magazine. Jane Metcalfe is the co-founder with Louis Rossetto, and former president of Wired Ventures, creator and original publisher of Wired Magazine. Charles Jackson may refer to Charles Jackson (jurist (1775-1855 American judge Charles Jackson (Rhode Island (1797-1876 Governor Nicholas Negroponte (born December 1, 1943) is a Greek-American Architect and Computer scientist best known as the founder and Chairman The MIT Media Lab (also known as the Media Lab) is a department within the School of Architecture and Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The founding designers were John Plunkett and Barbara Kuhr (Plunkett+Kuhr), beginning with a 1991 prototype and continuing through the first five years of publication, 1993-98.
Wired was a great success at its launch and was lauded for its vision, originality, innovation and cultural impact. In its first four years, the magazine won two National Magazine Awards for General Excellence and one for Design. At inception Wired was also often compared to a predecessor, the magazine Mondo 2000. Mondo 2000 was a glossy Cyberculture Magazine published in California during the 1980s and 1990s They both shared a creative use of design, and a cyberculture subject matter. Cyberculture is the Culture that has emerged or is emerging from the use of Computer networks for communication, entertainment and business Early issues of Wired showed a clear influence of Mondo 2000, but over time the two magazines diverged as Wired developed its own, more business-oriented identity. Mondo 2000 retained its more subversive interpretation of cyberculture, while Wired shifted emphasis in an increasingly mainstream direction. Wired also toned down the extremities of design that made it difficult to read. The founding executive editor of Wired, Kevin Kelly, was formerly one of the editors of the Whole Earth Catalog and the Whole Earth Review, and he brought with him many contributing writers from those publications. This article refers to the founding executive editor of Wired magazine The Whole Earth Catalog was an American Counterculture catalog that granted "Access to Tools" published by Stewart Brand between 1968 and Whole Earth Review was a magazine which was founded in January 1985 after the merger of The Whole Earth Software Review (a supplement to the The Six authors of the first issue, Wired 1. 01 had written for Whole Earth Review, most notably Bruce Sterling and Stewart Brand. Stewart Brand (born December 14, 1938 in Rockford Illinois) is an Author, editor, and creator of The Whole Earth Catalog Other contributors to Whole Earth appeared in Wired, including William Gibson, who was featured on Wired's cover in its first year.
Despite the fact that Kelly was involved in launching the WELL, an early source of public access to the Internet and even earlier non-Internet online experience, Wired's first issue (1. The Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link, normally shortened to The WELL, is one of the oldest Virtual communities in continuous operation 01) de-emphasized the Internet, and primarily talked about interactive games, cell-phone hacking, digital special effects, military simulations, and Japanese otaku. is a Japanese term used to refer to people with obsessive interests particularly Anime, Manga, and Video games. However, the first issue contained some references to the internet, including online-dating and internet sex, and a tutorial on installing a "bozo filter. " The last page, a column written by Nicholas Negroponte, was written in the style of an e-mail message, but contained obviously fake, non-standard e-mail addresses. By the third issue in the fall of 1993 the 'Net Surf' column began listing interesting FTP sites, news groups, and email addresses, at a time when the numbers of these things were small and this information was still extremely novel to the public. A newsgroup is a Repository usually within the Usenet system for messages posted from many users in different locations Electronic mail, often abbreviated to e-mail, email, or originally eMail, is a Store-and-forward method of writing sending receiving Wired was among the first magazines to list the email address of its authors and contributors.
The magazine was quickly followed by a companion website HotWired, a book publishing division HardWired, a Japanese edition, and a short-lived British edition, Wired UK. For the web magazine see HotWired. Hotwired is the third studio album from The Soup Dragons. In 1994, John Battelle, co-founding editor, commissioned Jules Marshall to write a piece on the Zippies. John Linwood Battelle is a Journalist as well as founder and chairman of Federated Media Publishing Jules Marshall (1962 England) has been an editor for Mediamatic Magazine since 1989 Zippie is a term used to describe a person who does something for nothing i The cover story broke records for being one of the most publicised stories of the year and was used to promote Wired's HotWired news service. [1]
HotWired itself spawned dozens of websites including Webmonkey, the search engine Hotbot, and a weblog, Suck.com. HotBot was one of the early Internet Search engines and was launched in May 1996 as a service of Wired Magazine. Suckcom was one of the earliest ad-supported content sites on the Internet. In June 1998, the magazine even launched its own stock index, The Wired Index, since July 2003 called The Wired 40.
The fortune of the magazine and allied enterprises corresponded closely to that of the dot-com bubble. The " dot-com bubble " (or sometimes the " IT bubble " was a speculative bubble covering roughly 1995–2001 (with a climax on March 10 In 1996, Rossetto and the other participants in Wired Ventures attempted to take the company public with an IPO. Initial public offering (IPO, also referred to simply as a "public offering" is when a company issues Common stock or shares to the public for the first The initial attempt had to be withdrawn in the face of a downturn in the stock market, and especially the internet sector, during the summer of 1996. The second try was also unsuccessful.
Rossetto and Metcalfe lost control of Wired Ventures to financial investors Providence Equity in May 1998, who quickly sold off the company in pieces. Wired was purchased by Advance Publications, who assigned it to Advance's subsidiary, New York-based publisher Condé Nast Publications (while keeping Wired's editorial offices in San Francisco). Advance Publications Inc, is an American media company owned by the descendants of S New York ( is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States and is the nation's third most populous
After the dot-com crash
During the dot-com boom, Wired had to compete with the multitude of technology reporting and sources available on the Internet, including The Industry Standard, Business 2.0 and the Red Herring. The Industry Standard was a weekly Magazine based in San Francisco which began publication in the spring of 1998 Business 20 was a monthly magazine publication founded by magazine entrepreneur Chris Anderson and journalist James Daly in order to chronicle the rise Red Herring is a weekly magazine focused on the business of funding building and taking new technologies to market With the crash of the dot-com boom, however, Wired outlasted its competition, and found a new direction under editor-in-chief Chris Anderson, who took on the job in June 2001. Chris Anderson (born 1961 is editor-in-chief of Wired Magazine, which has won a National Magazine Award under his tenure
The new era
Under Anderson, Wired has produced some agenda-setting articles, including the April 2003 "Welcome to the Hydrogen Economy" story, the November 2003 "Open Source Everywhere" issue (which put Linus Torvalds on the cover and articulated the idea that the open-source method was taking off outside of software, including encyclopedias as evidenced by Wikipedia), the February 2004 "Kiss Your Cubicle Goodbye" issue (which presented the outsourcing issue from both American and Indian perspectives), and an October 2004 article by Chris Anderson, which coined the popular term Long Tail. The hydrogen economy is a proposed method of deriving the Energy needed for Motive power (cars boats airplanes buildings or portable electronics by reacting Open source is a development methodology which offers practical accessibility to a product's source (goods and knowledge Linus Benedict Torvalds ( ˈtuːrvalds born December 28 1969 in Helsinki, Finland) is a Finnish software engineer An encyclopedia (or '''encyclopædia''') is a comprehensive written Compendium that contains Information on either all branches of Knowledge ***************************************************************************************** * * "Cubicle" is also used to refer to a toilet stall in a Washroom. Outsourcing is Subcontracting a process such as product design or Manufacturing, to a Third-party company The phrase The Long Tail (as a Proper noun with capitalized letters was first coined by Chris Anderson in an October 2004 Wired magazine
The November 2004 issue of Wired was published with The Wired CD. The Wired CD is an Album that was released in 2004 as a collaborative effort between Wired magazine Creative Commons, and sixteen All of the songs on the CD were released under various Creative Commons licenses, an attempt to push alternative copyright into the spotlight. Creative Commons (CC is a Non-profit organization devoted to expanding the range of creative works available for others to build upon legally and to share Most of the songs were contributed by major artists, including the Beastie Boys, My Morning Jacket, Paul Westerberg, David Byrne, and Le Tigre. My Morning Jacket is an American rock band known for their reverb -heavy sound their eclectic mix of Country rock, Indie rock, Paul Westerberg (born December 31 1959 is an American Musician, best known as the former lead singer and songwriter of The Replacements, one of the seminal Le Tigre ( French for "The Tiger" is an American Dance-punk band formed by Kathleen Hanna (formerly of Bikini Kill
In 2005 the magazine won the National Magazine Award for General Excellence in the category of 500,000 to 1,000,000 subscribers. [2] That same year Anderson won Advertising Age's editor of the year award. Advertising Age (or AdAge) is a Magazine, delivering news analysis and data on marketing and media [2]
In 2006, writer Jeff Howe and editor Mark Robinson coined the term Crowdsourcing in the June issue. Crowdsourcing is a Neologism for the act of taking a task traditionally performed by an employee or Contractor, and Outsourcing it to an undefined generally
In May 2007, the magazine again won the National Magazine Award for General Excellence. [3]
Over the years, Wired's writers have included John Perry Barlow, Paul Boutin, Stewart Brand, Gareth Branwyn, Po Bronson, Douglas Coupland, James Daly, Joshua Davis, J. Bradford DeLong, David Diamond, Patrick Di Justo, Cory Doctorow, Esther Dyson, Mark Frauenfelder, Simson Garfinkel, William Gibson, Mike Godwin, George Gilder, Steven Johnson, Bill Joy, Leander Kahney, Richard Kadrey, Jaron Lanier, Lawrence Lessig, Paul Levinson, Steven Levy, Wil McCarthy, Charles Platt, Spencer Reiss, Howard Rheingold, Rudy Rucker, Paul Saffo, Peter Schwartz, Neal Stephenson, Bruce Sterling, John Hodgman, Kevin Warwick and Gary Wolf. John Perry Barlow (born October 3, 1947) is an American Poet, Essayist, retired Wyoming cattle rancher political Paul Boutin (born 1961 in Lewiston Maine, United States) is a Magazine writer and editor who writes about Technology in a Pop-culture Stewart Brand (born December 14, 1938 in Rockford Illinois) is an Author, editor, and creator of The Whole Earth Catalog Gareth Branwyn (born January 21, 1958) is a writer editor and media critic Po Bronson (b 1964 is an American Journalist and Author who lives in San Francisco California. Douglas Coupland (born December 30, 1961) is a Canadian Novelist. James Daly is a San Francisco Bay Area Journalist. He is currently Editor in Chief of Edutopia, a publication from The George Lucas Educational Foundation Joshua Davis is an American author journalist and filmmaker who lives in San Francisco California James Bradford DeLong (b June 24 1960, Boston) commonly known as Brad DeLong, is a professor of Economics at the University David Diamond may refer to David Diamond (composer (1915–2005 American composer David Diamond (journalist David Patrick Di Justo (born April 11, 1964) is a freelance magazine writer who writes about science and technology Cory Doctorow (born July 17, 1971) is a Canadian Blogger Journalist and Science fiction author who serves as co-editor Esther Dyson (born 14 July, 1951, Zürich Switzerland) is a Journalist and commentator on emerging Digital technology, a founding Mark Frauenfelder is a Blogger illustrator and Journalist. He is editor-in-chief of MAKE magazine and co-editor of the collaborative weblog Boing Simson L Garfinkel is an Associate Professor at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey California and an Associate of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at William Ford Gibson (born March 17 1948 is an American - Canadian writer who has been called the "noir prophet" of the Cyberpunk subgenre Michael Wayne Godwin (born October 26, 1956) is an American attorney and Author. George F Gilder (born November 29, 1939, in New York City) is an American writer techno-utopian intellectual Republican Party Steven Berlin Johnson (born June 6, 1968) is an American Popular science Author. William Nelson Joy (born Nov 8, 1954) commonly known as Bill Joy, is an American Computer scientist. Leander Kahney (born 25 November, 1965) is managing editor formerly a senior reporter at Wired News, the online sister publication of Wired Richard Kadrey is a novelist freelance writer and photographer based in San Francisco Jaron Zepel Lanier (born May 3, 1960 in New York City) is computer scientist composer visual artist and author Lawrence Lessig (born June 3 1961) is an American academic and political activist Paul Levinson (born 1947 is an American Author and Professor of Communications and Media studies at Fordham University Steven Levy (born 1951 is an American Journalist who has written several books on computers technology Cryptography, the Internet cybersecurity Wil McCarthy (born September 16, 1966, Princeton New Jersey) is a Science fiction novelist Chief Technology Officer for Galileo Shipyards (an Charles Platt (born in London England 1945 is the author of 41 fiction and nonfiction books including science-fiction novels such as The Silicon Man and Spencer Reiss (born New York 1952 is a former Newsweek foreign correspondent now a contributing editor at Wired magazine. Howard Rheingold (born July 7, 1947) is a critic and writer his specialties are on the cultural social and political implications of modern communication media such Rudolf von Bitter Rucker (born March 22, 1946 in Louisville Kentucky) is an American Computer scientist and Science fiction Paul Saffo (born in 1954 in Los Angeles) is a technology forecaster based in Silicon Valley Peter Schwartz ( 1946 -) is a futurist author and cofounder of Global Business Network, a corporate strategy firm based in San Francisco California. Neal Town Stephenson (born October 31, 1959) is an American writer known primarily for his Science fiction works in the Postcyberpunk genre Michael Bruce Sterling (born April 14, 1954) is an American Science fiction author, best known for his novels and his seminal work on the Mirrorshades John Kellogg Hodgman (born June 3, 1971) is an American author and humorist Kevin Warwick (born 9 February 1954 Coventry, UK is a British scientist and professor of Cybernetics at the University of Reading This article refers to the journalist and contributing editor for Wired magazine
NextFest
Since 2004, Wired has organized an annual "festival of innovative products and technologies":[4]
- 2004: May 14-16 at the Fort Mason Center, San Francisco
- 2005: June 24-26 at Navy Pier, Chicago
- 2006: September 28 - October 1 at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center, New York City
- 2007: September 13-16 at the Los Angeles Convention Center, Los Angeles
Supplements
- Geekipedia is a supplement to Wired. Fort Mason, also known as San Francisco Port of Embarkation US Army, in San Francisco California is a former United States Army post located in the northern The City and County of San Francisco is the fourth most populous city Navy Pier is a long Pier on the Chicago shoreline of Lake Michigan. Chicago (ʃɪˈkɑːgoʊ is the largest City by population in the state of Illinois and the American Midwest of the United States. Jacob K Javits Convention Center is a large Convention center at 11th Avenue on the West side of Manhattan in New York City. The City of New York Los Angeles Convention Center (abbreviated LACC) is a Convention center in downtown Los Angeles. Los Angeles (lɑˈsændʒələs los ˈaŋxeles in Spanish) is the largest City in the state of California and the American West [5]
Notes
- ^ Wired, July 1994, page 133
- ^ a b Edge: Chris Anderson. Edge Foundation. Overview of Organizations named Edge Foundation There are three organizations named The Edge Foundation The Edge Foundation (www Retrieved on 2007-07-19. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 711 - Muslim forces under Tariq ibn Ziyad defeat the Visigoths led by their king Roderic.
- ^ http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/05-01-2007/0004578556&EDATE=
- ^ http://www.wirednextfest.com/
- ^ Geekipedia
References
- Wolf, Gary (2003). Wired: A Romance. New York: Random House. ISBN 0-375-50290-4.
External links
- Wired News (owned by Condé Nast Publications)
- Wired Netvibes Universe
- Back Catalog Article Listing/Rating
- NextFest
- The 'Future of Green' at WIRED NextFest
- Wired Science TV show on PBS
- Wired (magazine) is at coordinates Coordinates:
Wired UK
- "Wired UK: what nearly happened", an article on the rise and fall of Wired UK
- The short-lived Wired UK
- List of Wired UK employees
- Wired UK archive - reproduces some of the articles that appeared in the magazine. The Public Broadcasting Service ( PBS) is a Non-profit Public broadcasting Television service with 354 member TV stations in the A geographic coordinate system enables every location on the Earth to be specified in three coordinates using mainly a spherical coordinate system.
- The Long Tail - blog of Wired editor-in-chief, Chris Anderson, revolving around the themes of his book The Long Tail
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