[key texts] Wired UK 12.09
Riding on the tailcoats of my January internship with the zeitgeist-riding wunderkinder of Wired UK, I’ve got two short pieces in the December issue – both as part of the feature, ‘25 Ideas for 2010+‘. It’s my first professional byline, in one of the most awesome individual magazine issues to spit on the much-touted ‘death of news’, and – naturally – I’m all kinds of adrenal.
© image credit: the conde nast publications ltd.
Now that it’s safely in print, I feel comfortable pointing you to a copy of the email interview I conducted with Swedish doctoral student Jonas Anderson. There’s some seriously interesting stuff in there, very little (unfortunately) of which made it into the final 250 words.
Oh, and with the apparent ratification of Lisbon, it’ll be interesting to see the reception Amelia Andersdotter gets from the European Parliament (and the media) when taking her seat at the start of December. Researching the Wired piece, I spent fifteen minutes transfixed by her interview with Andrew Keen for (of all things) The Daily Telegraph:
Setting aside my own nascent megalomania for a moment (if we must), the December issue also contains Mic Wright’s fantastic feature on photographic miracle the Impossible Project – mentioned briefly in my delirious (and slightly incoherent) economic analysis of Cory Doctorow’s new novel, Makers. Also: heaps of nifty infographics, airfix hacking, and Warren Ellis’ spirited defence of phonic curmudgeon Paul Morley.
Now, most of this is probably available online, but – admit it – you need the tactility of print. Underneath it all is the realisation that it’s just not practical to take your laptop to the toilet with you. Netbook, maybe, but not your laptop …