Comments on: Wired Magazine: Barometer of Industry Health?

By: Penguin

Penguin — Tue, 29 Nov 2005 23:37:29 +0000

Nice to see Wired is doing well… even when other publications are slowly dying because of loss of ad and classified revenues to online publications

By: GMapsMania

GMapsMania — Tue, 29 Nov 2005 20:56:31 +0000

Mark,
I had the same thought when I picked up WIRED this month (must renew my Rogers Mag Service cheap subscription).. I've been a WIRED reader forever and loved the Toronto telephone book days of old, but look closely at this issue.. Its entire mid section is a basically a cross promotion of WIRED's spinoff magazine 'TEST', a consumer guide to cool toys. I think if you take that “advertising section” out, along with the Christmas season ads you'll find that it's a regular size..
BTW – my favourite “thick issue” was 4.12 – Mother Earth Mother Board (Neal Stephenson)!!
I like the retro re-naming of the blog, and I'm liking your posts on RealTechNews!
Cheers,
Mike.
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Google Maps Mania
http://www.gmapsmania.com

By: Mark Evans

Mark Evans — Tue, 29 Nov 2005 16:24:30 +0000

last month, wired was about 200 pages so maybe i should “borrow” your methodology!

By: Tyler

Tyler — Tue, 29 Nov 2005 16:11:19 +0000

Hey Mark, I remember plotting page counts of Wired with the movement of the Nasdaq Stock Market during the dot-com ups and downs. I found that when the number of pages each month, as an expression of ad counts, were put into a line chart it would roughly match the movement of the Nasdaq. Same held for Business 2.0 and other dot-com era mags.