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Information Aesthetics: Urban Open Data: 100 Million 311 Calls in New York Visualized -

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"Wired recently published an interesting article titled "What a Hundred Million Calls to 311 Reveal About New York [wired.com] digesting some of the insights that can be derived by analyzing more than 100 million 311 calls that have been placed in New York since its inception in March 2003 ... "

Information Aesthetics: Urban Open Data: 100 Million 311 Calls in New York Visualized -

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"Wired recently published an interesting article titled "What a Hundred Million Calls to 311 Reveal About New York [wired.com] digesting some of the insights that can be derived by analyzing more than 100 million 311 calls that have been placed in New York since its inception in March 2003 ... "

iA: WIRED on iPad: Just like a Paper Tiger…

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First, the paper magazine was crammed into the little iPad frame. To compensate for the lack of interactive logic, this pretty package was provided with a fruity navigation. In the end it was spiced with in-app links, plucked with a couple of movies and salted with audio files (”interactive”). Then it was off to marketing. And it sold 24,000 copies. Dammit. It’s the Nineties all over again. ... Here is a short, evil rundown of how iA sees the new WIRED app. ... Let’s make this clear once and for all: at the current surface and resolution of the iPad, multi column layouts for long screen texts are sentimental nonsense."

Adobe Digital Publishing: Introducing a New Digital Magazine Experience

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Another tablet consumer magazine prototype: "Last Friday, Adobe and Condé Nast unveiled a new digital magazine experience based on WIRED magazine at the TED conference in Long Beach, California. Built on Adobe AIR and developed with Condé Nast, the tablet prototype we showed during the TED 'Play' session illustrates the possibilities for magazine publishers to reach readers in new ways."

New York Times: Wired Struggles to Find Niche in Magazine World

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"[Wired] 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. ... Wired’s circulation has gone steadily up, rising 32 percent since Mr. Anderson’s first full year there. But it is still one of the least popular magazines at Condé Nast, with a circulation of only 704,000. Its Web site, meanwhile, is the most popular of Condé Nast’s magazine sites, with about 11 million unique visitors a month, according to the company’s internal figures. That suggests that technology-forward readers prefer to read articles in a technology-forward way."

Journalism.co.uk: News orgs must reassess why they are using social media, says Ben Hammersley

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Wired UK will have five 8,000-word articles per month. Ben Hammersley: "Everything in the middle [between aggregation and high quality] will die away and you're going to see that in every industry, which is why we're launching a big glossy magazine in the middle of a recession," he says.

Wired: Threat LeveL: Wikipedia Sleuths Win Journalism Award for Wired.com

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"Wired.com's Threat Level blog won the 2008 Knight-Batten Award for Innovation in Journalism on Wednesday for finding a way to let you readers highlight the worst whitewashing of Wikipedia entries by corporations and governments. ... Knight-Batten also awarded $2,000 special distinction awards to Politifact.com and Ushahidi."