Wired Magazine

Mondo Times editors    Boulder, Colorado USA

Posted at 1:24pm on Thursday, June 25th, 2009

Valleywag at Gawker, which is unkind at its nicest, says Wired editor Chris Anderson stole content form Wikipedia for a 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.

Like so many plagiarists before him, Anderson claims his act was unintentional. The Virginia Quarterly Review first reported his copying, and the explanation he gave us is that he and his editors decided to kill Free's footnotes "at the 11th hour."

The full story:
http://gawker.com/5301674/wired-editor-steals-content-for-book-saying-content-should-be-free

Eric Kallgren    Boulder Colorado USA

Posted at 9:19pm on Friday, May 22nd, 2009

Why doesn’t Wired magazine practice what its editor preaches? James Ledbetter poses the question in "Free To Be Ignored," posted on May 21, 2009 at The Big Money blog:

"Now, four decades later, comes Chris Anderson, editor of Wired and author of The Long Tail, whose new book proclaims that giving things away for free is the "radical" new business model of the future. According to Anderson, there are a variety of ways businesses can and should do this, and once they do, they can charge for other goods and services to make their money. Readers can decide whether they think the model is radical; certainly, Anderson does not claim that it is new, although he does propose applying it in a number of ways that seem unprecedented. Which is odd, since if he followed his own advice he'd be out of a job."

The full story:
www.thebigmoney.com/articles/monetize/2009/05/21/free-be-ignored

Eric Kallgren    Boulder Colorado USA

Posted at 1:58pm on Monday, May 18th, 2009

Wired magazine is having real trouble selling advertising, despite the capable editorial leadership of Chris Anderson, the New York Times reported in the story "For Wired, a Revival Lacks Ads" on May 17, 2009:

"Mr. Anderson has yet to solve the equation for Wired. Under his editorship, the magazine is an editorial success, winning three National Magazine Awards last month, which tied it for the most honored magazine. And Mr. Anderson’s own profile is higher than ever, thanks to his books, which roll messy business trends into neat canapés that executives pass around. He gives 50 speeches a year for an estimated $35,000 to $50,000 apiece.

But that has not equaled success for Wired in the downturn. The magazine has lost 50 percent of its ad pages so far this year, ranking among the worst off of the more than 150 monthly magazines measured by Media Industry Newsletter. Only Portfolio, which Condé Nast shut down last month, and Power and Motoryacht fared worse."

The full story:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/18/business/media/18wired.html?ref=media

Mondo Times editors    Boulder, Colorado USA

Posted at 9:35pm on Wednesday, May 6th, 2009

In May 2009, Wired magazine promoted Thomas Goetz to executive editor. Goetz was previously deputy editor at Wired.