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youtube
Newspaper Argues the Internet is Even Killing the Internet
The Independent has a massive piece today on YouTube and how, despite having close to 350 million users worldwide per month, it's set to lose almost half a billion dollars this year. And it's all your fault, naturally. More »
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Comment by Airvault: That "twenty hours of video uploaded per minute" figure honestly amazes me, given that the majority of the videos uploaded... 3 Responses | Other threads
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nerdfight
Condé Nast's Grumpy East Coast-West Coast Feud
Big Ideas Author Malcolm Gladwell, a Manhattanite of the New Yorker, has issued a smackdown review of Free, Big Ideas Author Chris Anderson, a Berkeleyan of San Francisco's Wired. If that's not provocative enough, Gladwell sounds downright grumpy. More »
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By Ryan TateComment by T.A.N.: That Wired and The New Yorker are the two money-losingest titles (or even among them) feels so wrong. Does it... 7 Responses | Other threads
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scandal
How the Crescent City Revealed Wired's Plagiarizing Editor
How did the Virginia Quarterly Review connect Chris Anderson's book to Wikipedia, thus unraveling a plagiarism scandal? A strange use of parentheses. More »
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By Ryan TateComment by Tremonius: When I was a boy in the fifties, and listening to AM station WNOE from New Orleans a thousand miles... 2 Responses | Other threads
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magazines
The Case Against Chris Anderson
Chris Anderson's plagiarism scandal is still unfolding; Brooklyn writer Ed Champion has found instances where the Free author copied material he was supposed to be summarizing. But there was grumbling about Wired's editor long before his book scandal. More » -
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Wired Editor Steals Content for Book About How Content Should be Free
Chris Anderson has been caught lifting huge chunks out of Wikipedia for his book Free. The irony speaks for itself. But it's worth noting that the Wired editor's excuses are disconcertingly clichéd. More »
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By Ryan TateComment by Stefanie Kechayas: Actually, I'm doing my masters in new media communications and I regularly use Wikipedia as a reference to find primary... 4 Responses | Other threads
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twitterati
The Twitterati Refuse to Sell a Horse for an Aeron Chair
These tweets are made for venting. Joanna Pearlstein, Susan Orlean, Jim Louderback, and other media twits found plenty to complain about on Twitter: More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by MrInBetween: Dear Cranky Hiring Manager: Don't make me tell you how my hiring would benefit WIRED. Tell me why a barely-breathing... 1 Responses | Other threads
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twitterati
The Twitterati Stay Up All Night Cursing Their Honda
Don't take an iPhone to a movie screening, don't Twitter when you should be making coffee, don't buy a 2002 Honda, and don't be Meghan McCain. This and more we learned from Twitter today! More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by PrettyNotPretty: "Can't you just take a vacation tonight mr. insomnia?" Can't you just take a motherfucking Ambien and a shot of bourbon... 1 Responses | Other threads
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twitterati
The Power Goes Out on the Twitterati
Picture Martha Stewart sitting in the dark, unable to get anything accomplished. It's like the perfect metaphor for how Twitter fails to illuminate the lives of media people! More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by allyzay: there is literally nothing more horrible on the entire internet, and i'm including the entire internet, even cumonherface.com and danny... 5 Responses | Other threads
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twitterati
The Twitterati Listen to Blowhard Electronica
This is the media life on Twitter: Readers daring to call on the phone, bloggers taking each other out to lunch, and blowhard predictions made about blowhard predictions! Today's Twitterati: More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by TalbotSmith: That reminds me...another 'just dessert' of the Times going under will be Jenny Lee sinking with it. more » | Other threads
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wantrepreneurs
Is Web 2.0 Safe in a War Zone?
The gang of webheads sent by the State Department to Iraq is doing what webheads do: blogging, Twittering, and posting photos in real time. This must be giving their government minders fits. More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by adanalyst: And Owen is doing wonders boosting the credibility of bloggers everywhere with his own misspelling: Perahps to stay in the... 1 Responses | Other threads
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twitterati
The Twitterati Would Gay-Marry Blue Bottle Iced Coffee If It Were Legal
Barbara Walters sending Twitter messages as she gets her hair shampooed is a sign of the Apocalypse. Run for the hills, kids — but make sure to get a frosty caffeinated beverage before you do! More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by stanhalen: It's a comfort to have proof that it's the same all over. more » | Other threads
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valleywag
They Will Greet Us as Social Networkers
Call it the final wave of the American invasion: A passel of tech executives from Google, YouTube, Twitter, and others, squired by a Wired feature writer, are touring Iraq. More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by Ladies and Gentlemen-Mr. Burt Bacharach: Sadly no one will be wearing a t-shirt promoting their website since Charles Forman received no invite more » | Other threads
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twitterati
The Twitterati Scrape Off a Blueprint Cleanse Stain
Feeling out of it? Then go read what media types like Amanda Congdon and Sarah Lacy are saying about themselves on Twitter. You'll feel better instantly! More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by deathbychichi: On the RSS, the placement of the horizontal rules on the twitter posts is off. It makes it look... more » | Other threads
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twitterati
The Twitterati Go For "Dong"
If you have no idea what people on Twitter are talking about, fear not. They have no idea what they're talking about, either. The latest mutterings from Chris Anderson, John Byrne, and other online twits: More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by Banjo-Sea Kitten: "...@Brian Faughnan and for lunch we had Hate Sandwiches topped off with Lies Ala Mode." I'm awesome, I know... michellemalkin 1 Responses | Other threads
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twitterati
The Twitterati Are Left Crying in Istanbul
Anyone have a handkerchief? What? Oh, nothing in particular — just the tearjerking phenomenon of seemingly intelligent people like Jake Tapper, Rachel Sklar, and Paul Carr spending so much time sharing so little on Twitter: More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by mimigoliath: I can sympathize with Drew - I mourned the loss of Zack from "Bones" last year from May until about... more » | Other threads
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Wired.com 'Gutted' in Conde Layoffs
More detail on the layoffs at Conde Nast Digital today (which is not an April Fool's joke, okay): Wired.com was reportedly hit hard. Internal turf war? More » -
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Hairy-Chested Mice Menace the Twitterati
Ryan Seacrest's wordsmith can't stand the sight of body hair! Wired's Jason Tanz went to the dentist! And a journalism instructor saw a mouse! It's scary out there in Twitterland: More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by pacocornholio: Site of hair? Sight of hair? For a moment there it looked like a much juicier message. 3 Responses | Other threads
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twitterati
Sweetbread Piccata iPhone App Makes the Twitterati Go Chris Brown
Why isn't there, like, an iPhone app that does all your actual work so you can spend your day chatting with friends on Twitter? Touré, Courtney Hazlett, and Kurt Andersen puzzled over similar questions: More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by l'analogie: When I read the headline, I read "Sweetbread Picatta" as an exclamation, e.g. "cool" or "awesome", and it amused me... 1 Responses | Other threads
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twitterati
The Twitterati, Now Lazier Than Ever!
Why hit the phones when you can just do your work on Twitter? Jason Pontin, Caroline Waxler, and a Washington Post reporter show us how to tweetsource your way to more free time: More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by Lulupasternak: Considering how badly Trunk needs investors, a cleaned-out In box is hardly a healthy sign. more » | Other threads
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twitterati
Facebook's Redesign Drives Twitterati to Drink
Who knew New Yorker writers used Facebook enough to hate its new look, as Susan Orlean does? In other trivia, Tricia Romano got sauced, Olivier Knox developed a crush, and Jon Fine revealed his ignorance: More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by Kari's Favorite Mark: Is Susan still doing it with that orchid hunter? 7 Responses | Other threads
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hires
Twitter Claims Valley Crown by Poaching Google's Top Designer
Twitter, the twee San Francisco messing startup, is all hope, no revenues. That makes it irresistable to Silicon Valley's best and brightest — like Google's top designer, Doug Bowman, whom we hear Twitter just hired. More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by Andy Johns: Sure, Google isn't flashy. But don't forget that simplicity is design. Google also does as much if not more MVT... 5 Responses | Other threads
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twitterati
The Twitterati Are Totally Losing It
Today, a media elite replete with tweets thought about all the things they no longer have. And boy, did Wired's editor get mad at a Danish reporter! Also, food, food, and more food: More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by miss_msry: Sorry, but if you are Twittering on Twitter you're a Twitt. 1 Responses | Other threads
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twitterati
The Twitterati Are Alive and Lazier Than Ever
Why work when you can Twitter? David Pogue from the New York Times played copy editor, Tina Fey contemplated cookies, and Internet-celebrity expert Paul Carr was just glad to be alive. More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by LuisDobbs: Cannot emphasize this enough: TinaFey on Twitter is not the real Tina Fey. 7 Responses | Other threads
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twitterati
Almost All of Twitter's Mysteries Solved
Karen Tumulty of Time told us how senators handle their snuff. John Battelle explained why tweets seem so brainless. But who stole a Wired editor's lunch? Twitter still has secrets. More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by dclarus: So let me get this straight: people on Twitter tweet about crap that no one cares about. And this... 3 Responses | Other threads
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twitterati
The Twitterati Are Not as Awesome as They Think They Are
Today on Twitter: Media people being pretentious, from Bonnie Fuller to Wired's Chris Anderson and beyond! More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by Gospel X: re: headline No one who uses Twitter is awesome. No one. "Twit" doesn't even mean anything positive! 7 Responses | Other threads
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twitterati
The Twitterati Have Major Problems
What is it with media people? Twitter seems to drive them to reveal what their readers always suspected: They're all a bit dysfunctional, each in his or her own special way. Especially Julia Allison! More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by Dr.ClaytonForrester: Call me crazy, but I like seeing Julia Allison saying fuckkkkkk. fuck. It humanizes her. 13 Responses | Other threads
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twitterati
Life Is Good for the Twitterati
The media live deeply ordinary lives. Okay, deeply ordinary lives in which their bosses buy them caviar. The Twitterati report in with a feast for the senses: More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by contradicto: Today I had a diet greek salad for lunch. The "diet" part confused me because it was basically a gyro... 4 Responses | Other threads
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twitterati
The Twitterati Have Many Regrets
Twitter users are a sorry bunch. Especially the media! Errata, excuses, and eye-rolling from today's tweets: More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by Smitros: This reminds me of a question based on Devo. If you don't have the time or resources for both in one... 7 Responses | Other threads
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layoffs
Digital dealmaker and a dozen others out at Wired
A quarter of the 50-something employees in Wired.com's San Francisco newsroom are gone, a source tells us — and with them, the bubbly delusion that Wired would not just report on the transformation of media by technology, but be a part of the revolution as well. The cuts hit Wired's tech team heavily, though some writers and editors also got pink slips. (CNET reports that 3 out of 28 editorial staffers are gone, but a Wired insider says that the actual number of edit jobs cut is at least six.) More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by ziff62: I worked with Kourosh at Yahoo. He's a very smart and capable guy. I'm confident a savvy online... more » | Other threads
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layoffs
Wired.com fires 12, a quarter of its staff
Just yesterday, we were hearing gossip about how Condé Nast, the magazine publisher, had spared Wired while slashing Portfolio, its troubled business magazine. Not so: Wired.com is having layoffs due to "unexpected cutbacks," Silicon Alley Insider reports. No details on numbers yet; the publication is having a conference call to discuss the cuts now. Wired.com, which is managed separately from the magazine, had gone on an acquisition spree of late, having bought Reddit, Ars Technica, and Webmonkey recently. It also had plans to resuscitate HotWired, a '90s-era Web property which popularized the banner ad; those may now be on hold. Update: More details have arrived on the cuts. A quarter of the 50 or so staff in Wired.com's San Francisco newsroom are gone.
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By Owen ThomasComment by Alaska Miller: Even Mike Arrington thinks Wired sucks: [twitter.com] more » | Other threads
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Bob Cohn
Wired's No. 2 editor to take over The Atlantic's website
You've probably never heard of Bob Cohn, but he played a major role in saving Wired from running aground in 2001. As executive editor, Cohn was the low-key second-in-command to Chris Anderson. He pushed editors and writers to abandon Wired's too-insidery voice and craft a new kind of tech journalism aimed at curious outsiders. Trust me, that sounds great until you try to do it. Starting in January, Cohn will take editorial charge of TheAtlantic.com, reporting directly to editor-in-chief James Bennet. "It's a great website," Bob told me via cell phone just now. Translation: Change a-comin'!
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By Paul BoutinComment by sample032: What I always loved about The Atlantic was that average people didn't know about it and, instead, read the New... 3 Responses | Other threads
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too insidery
Why Paul Boutin really told you to kill your blog
I've been amused by the vast number of people who have uncovered Paul Boutin's dirty secret: The guy who just told Wired's 700,000 readers to kill their blog writes for a blog. Actually, a gossip rag, but come on. The real reason Paul wrote "Kill Your Blog"? So he would never, ever, ever have to write another servicey how-to-write-blogs article for the New York Times's Circuits section. -
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Indian gangbangers get rich off U.S. tech industry
"'Thanks to convoluted laws and corrupt officials, claiming ownership over a piece of property in Bangalore can be as easy as hiring thugs to paint your name on the side of a building.' The chaos makes gangsters who can impose order — like the murderous Muthappa Rai — very wealthy." More »
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By Paul BoutinComment by michaellamb: innnneresting. So you're saying that we can get back our outraageous 10months of rent deposit on our place and just... 1 Responses | Other threads
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wired magazine
Kill your blog
@WiredReader: Kill yr blog. 2004 over. Google won't find you. Too much cruft from HuffPo, NYT. Commenters are tards. C u on Facebook? That's all you need to read from my essay at the front of Wired's new November issue. The rest is good, thanks to stellar editing, but these days a 600-word essay — and a headline like "Kill Your Blog" — only stand out in print. See? They changed it online.
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By Paul BoutinComment by sample032: Oh, fuck yeah! "...your blog will still draw the Net's lowest form of life: The insult commenter. Pour your heart out... 1 Responses | Other threads
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great moments in journalism
Wired lauds Current TV for copying CNN
Current TV's Twitter-enhanced live feed of the Obama/McCain debate on Friday "broke new ground," according to Wired blogger Sarah Lai Stirland. But it's been nearly a month since the September 8 premiere of CNN's Rick Sanchez Direct, in which Sanchez turns the camera on Twitter for the modern version of man-on-the-street quotes. How it works: You add Rick. He adds you back. You then tweet live during his show. He may pullquote you, or run the live stream onscreen. Sanchez, currently following nearly 18,000 people, already drew attention for his live tweet-reading during Hurricane Gustav, when Twitterers filed reported facts to millions of viewers. More »
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great moments in journalism
Time copies Wired's real-time editing experiment
The hot trend in publishing these days is "transparency" — letting readers watch the media sausage being made. Why leave the tedious back-and-forth between writers and editors unpublished, when so much cleverness goes into telling colleagues how they've done it all wrong? Wired is doing it now with a feature, still in the works, on screenwriter Charlie Kaufman. We don't think the editors of Time intended to follow Wired's footsteps, but they did. A Q&A with Dr. Sam Parnia, an expert on death, was published on Time.com and distributed on Yahoo News with editors' comments attached. It asks, "What Happens When We Die?" But it doesn't address the more important question: What happens when we merely wish we could?
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By Owen ThomasComment by friendslikeJimRome: as if Time has any editors left...that's a note from MJ's mother. more » | Other threads
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julia allison
Hot girl photo on Wired cover a record-setter
Now in the pantheon of Wired's top-selling issues at the newsstand: Julia Allison, the face of famous nobodies who are clearly not nobodies as they are on the cover of Wired. "Allison outsold a host of genuine celebrities," goes Portfolio's blog, "including Sarah Silverman (Feb. 2008), Rupert Murdoch (July 2006), John Stewart (Sept. 2005) and Steven Spielberg, twice (June 2002 and June 2005)." If that vindicates the cover-friendly Allison, it also vindicates the cover lies of publishers — among whom it's hardly news that airbrushed pretty always wins.
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great moments in journalism
We edit Wired so they don't have to
Writer Jason Tanz continues with the overshare on his behind-the-scenes blog for a Wired profile of screenwriter/director Charlie Kaufman, best known for Jim Carrey vehicle Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Today Tanz has uploaded a rough draft of his story. Forgive the typos and factual errors, he asks, in return for the peek at his process. We couldn't resist the urge to crowdsource his editor's response: More »
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Comment by mpantone: This is a curious departure from your normal fare of San Francisco sex worker commentary. Why? Those posts garner far more pageviews... more » | Other threads
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radical transparency
Wired nears Schwarzschild radius of self-referential blogging
"What if we showed how we produced this story?" iconoclastic Wired creative director Scott Dadich asked the team producing an article about self-referential screenwriter Charlie Kaufman (in photo) and his new self-referential film about a self-referential Broadway play, Synecdoche, New York. "What would happen if we broke the rules, we put the whole thing online as we produced it?" "What if we posted the edit — hell, the rough draft." "What if we posted the pitch letter?" "What if we posted the emails about the pitch letter?" Keep going guys .... What if we posted the email you sent Valleywag? Transparency just keeps getting easier. More »
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By Paul BoutinComment by cowboytwopointoh: If I comment on this, then am I part of the Wired story? Did I just blow your mind? What would... 2 Responses | Other threads
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great moments in journalism
How Wired kept Google's browser secret
Magazines aren't in the business of breaking news. But had Google PR not inadvertently leaked word of its Google Chrome Web browser, Steven Levy's feature in Wired's forthcoming October issue might have been both the first and last word on the project. It required the Faustian bargain typical of fly-on-the-wall features: Get deep inside the company, in exchange for letting the subject dictate the timing of the story. But this story was trickier than most, since Chrome was still a secret when the issue was under production. Normally, dozens of eyes would fall on the story. How did a magazine's labor-heavy business model intersect with Google's maniacal obsession with secrecy? This was, in some ways, the exact opposite of last year's cover story on "radical transparency." Bob Cohn, Wired's executive editor, explained to Valleywag how they pulled it off: More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by Drunken Economist: Actually, the best way to keep a secret in the bay area is to submit a story to BoingBoing and... 1 Responses | Other threads
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