#wired (13 links)
- A simple guide to Care.data wired.co.uk
With Love, we’ve got a pristine world with its own complex set of rules, ripe for discovery. One of the downsides of playing a game like World of Warcraft is that everything’s been done, every problem solved, every nook explored. In Love, nearly everything needs to be worked out. If you play Love now, you’re doing the work of a pioneer.
"Wired, [Albert Read] suggests, may not really be a tech magazine at all. "It's a magazine about innovation and the future, and should not be narrowly confined to technology in people's minds," he says. "You read Wired if you see yourself as a forward thinker or an early adopter." I'm looking forward to seeing how this turns out.
PMS gets coverage in Wired. "We had another option and that was to tap into our customer base and their expertise. Let them do the expert filtering, selecting the best products and writing the corresponding reviews for us. At the time this was a pretty abstract idea and Warp were not able to even consider this as an option -- and in their defense, I can see why they saw this as a very big and scary idea."
"By now, you know all about Nine Inch Nails and Radiohead selling their latest albums at various prices, depending on the format. London-based indie electronica label Highpoint Lowlife is experimenting with a similar model for its new quadruple EP compila
"The rise of "freeconomics" is being driven by the underlying technologies that power the Web. Just as Moore's law dictates that a unit of processing power halves in price every 18 months, the price of bandwidth and storage is dropping even faster."
"Wired asked David Byrne — a legendary innovator himself and the man who wrote the Talking Heads song "Radio Head" from which the group takes its name — to talk with Yorke about the In Rainbows distribution strategy and what others can learn from the
"My intent for weblogs in 1997 was to make the web as a whole more transparent, via a sort of "mesh network," where each weblog amplifies just those signals (or links) its author likes best. 1998-1999 was for me the Golden Age of Weblogs."
Cohen credits DVD sales as the force behind Futurama's return. "This new revenue stream saved our neck," he says. "A few years from now, when Internet speeds are better, maybe one person buys it and shares it with a hundred of their friends."
- Vinyl May Be Final Nail in CD's Coffin wired.com
As counterintuitive as it may seem in this age of iPods and digital downloads, vinyl -- the favorite physical format of indie music collectors and audiophiles -- is poised to re-enter the mainstream, or at least become a major tributary.
"Pagulayan runs a testing lab for Bungie that looks more like a psychological research institute than a game studio. The room we're monitoring is wired with video cameras that Pagulayan can swivel around to record the player's expressions or see which but
- Wired News: What If They Gave a War...? wired.com
"I'll tell you where they are. They're at home, tuning in to root for the next "American idol." They're plugged into their iPods, utterly self-involved and disconnected from what lies just outside their doors. They're spending 25 hours a week playing vide