Tag Archives: magazines

Let’s wave goodbye to PC Magazine

Posted on November 19, 2008 by Joel Johnson

Paid Content brings somewhat sad tidings: PC Magazine is no more — at least as a print magazine. (PCMag.com will live on.) I hadn’t read the magazine in years, but it was nothing personal. I still have a couple of … Continue reading →

Esquire e-ink cover a pathetic disappointment

Posted on September 8, 2008 by John Brownlee

Esquire’s much-hyped e-ink cover has been spotted in the wild, and as the months and years unfurl ahead of us, merely quoting the lede of Joel’s wildly idealistic July feature to him will be enough to solicit hot, briny tears… … Continue reading →

Esquire to geeks: hack our e-paper magazine cover

Posted on July 30, 2008 by Joel Johnson

Update: PT took apart the cover now that it’s on the stands and it’s not at all what we’d hoped. Pity. [Make] E-paper cover a “stupid gimmick”? No way, Brian. Esquire‘s animated 75th anniversary cover is the flashing, squawking future … Continue reading →

Wired Issue 1 Admired

Posted on February 8, 2008 by Joel Johnson

Rex Sorgatz cracks the spine of Wired issue 1.1, the very first. I don’t think I ended up getting Wired until a couple of issues in, shoplifted from my local Quiktrip, so it’s especially interesting to see what all the … Continue reading →