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Wired Says ‘The Web is Dead’ — On Its Increasingly Profitable Website [The Future]

Chris Anderson will generate plenty of chatter with his “The Web is Dead” Wired cover, foretold here previously . Fair enough; that’s what a smart magazine editor does. But all the more reason to note the rich ironies in his eulogy. More

Will Condé Nast Feed the iPad At the Expense of the Web? [Apple]

The iPad looks futuristic, but in some ways it keeps old media rooted the past. Condé Nast, for example, will offer some magazine content on the Apple tablet before its release on the open Web. We hear the luxe magazine group plans to release articles first on the iPad, at titles with an iPad edition, and then at least several days later on the Web. While Condé Nast magazines already delay the publication of some articles on the Web, and withhold others altogether, the iPad could exacerbate the situation by adding an additional tier of access and putting the Web further downstream, or, most ominously for Web readers, leading Condé Nast to an “iPad first” policy. Wired editor Chris Anderson told us his Condé title is trying to experiment in a nuanced manner: We’ve always sequenced magazine content so that it comes out at different times in print and on the web, with web delays that have typically ranged from days to weeks. I can’t speak for the rest of CN or any other title, but at Wired we intend to do the same thing with tablets. I can’t yet say what the range of delays will be for various parts of the magazine, but we’ll experiment with different options, ranging from short delays to long ones. The iPad Wired is the most interactive tablet edition within Condé Nast and, last we heard, isn’t expected to launch until ” midsummer .” A simpler iPad port of GQ had been submitted to Apple, and iPad editions of Vanity Fair , Glamour and the New Yorker are also planned. None are expected to be as ambitious as Wired , and will thus be more dependent on exclusive content for promotion. We’re still waiting for an official response from Condé on whether just some content, or all, will be released on iPad before the Web — we were led to believe the latter is the case — and whether the practice is planned for one issue or as a regular thing. But any Web delay is unfortunate, because iPad content should be compelling enough on its own to draw readers, without the need for artificial scarcity. After all, this is supposed to be a technologically wondrous device, almost magical for users. We’d download Wired’s app, for example, on the strength of the sexy demo alone . And Condé should be trying to make its websites more lively and timely, not less so; even with the iPad, the magazine group will need to greatly improve its Web business as lucrative print operations deteriorate. Condé Nast’s web operations have suffered enough abuse without being further bled at the altar of the iPad.

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Updated: What the Hell Did Sarah Silverman Say at Her TED Talk?

Must’ve been good, because Chris Anderson thought it was “god-awful,” and one blogger wonders if she “took a dump on stage.” The TED website describes her talk as ” a new perspective on the number 3000. ” But…what perspective? Update : Wow . The annual conference of supposedly important people with supposedly important things to say supposedly took a turn for the worst when Sarah Silverman got up on stage to speak. Seriously, if TED “curator” and Wired editor-in-chief Chris Anderson is talking shit on his own speaker… …And then, according to one asskisser, apologizing for her… …With other bloggers noting that “Sarah Silverman is being too honest :-)” … …and some saying she had them ” pissing (themselves) laughing ” and “killed it”…. We kind of have to know what happened. If you do, hit us up . Update: Well, we might have some kind of idea, now. Via MediaPost , a fairly rough report: Sarah learned she was Jewish because everyone else treated her like a Jew. She was a very deep child. It’s not like the Jews killed Baby Jesus, and btw: You are welcome for the Jews having killed the 39 year old, otherwise he wouldn’t be famous (Everyone knows you gotta die young to be famous). We need religion. It’s a way to cope with the unanswerable. Because if Sarah thinks about the fact that she was just a spec that exploded up out of her dad’s balls, that’s fucked up. Insecurity can humble us. It’s a survival skill. It can protect us. From things like aging. When Sarah was nineteen, there were so many official pussy inspectors, and now, you never see them anymore… probably because of computers. “Just please don’t think I care.” We live in a world of excess. Population doubles every 40 years (Sarah read that on a blog) – that’s crazy! How is it not total vanity to give birth when there’s so many kids to adopt? Sarah plans to adopt a mentally challenged child, because she really does enjoy the company of the mentally challenged. Unfortunately they don’t leave the nest – ever. Therefore, Sarah plans to adopt a retarded person that is terminately ill. Who does that? Amazing people. Everyone deserves to have a song. This is for the inner porn stars in the audience. All the penises in the galaxy… TED’s traditionally pretty grandstanding about the nature of their speakers and what they have to say. For example, a totally square (America Online founder) Steve Case: And more: And even shock from Silverman herself: So while she may not have “taken a dump on stage,” but Sarah Silverman definitely put something on TED’s reputation and speakers. Defiant mockery, perhaps? Not exactly revolutionary, but in that setting, definitely a little groundbreaking. [ Thanks to Paolo at NYC The Tumblr for links. ]

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Updated: What the Hell Did Sarah Silverman Say at Her TED Talk?