Re: Peter D. Lewis
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I think Kelly is a person of high integrity. It's hard to demand much more than this.
I simply can't think much of a magazine that has cover stories deriving entirely from kiddie-kracker squabbles. Kelly may have plenty of integrity but that's not the word that the magazine "Wired" usually brings to mind. It's not the profit motive or the ads that get me: running a business, I know you can't be picky about who you take money from. It's the lack of meaningful content that annoys me. As with Lewis, frequenly when they're discussing something I know something about their stories are fraught with inaccuracies and rumours. My personal favorite is when they list reporters among the "experts" on their technology-watch light bites. Their entire approach is to cast Like "Seventeen," "Wired" should prepend "don't you wish you were" to its title. - -- Todd Masco | "life without caution/ the only worth living / love for a man/ cactus@hks.net | love for a woman/ love for the facts/ protectless" - A Rich Cactus' Homepage - --- [This message has been signed by an auto-signing service. A valid signature means only that it has been received at the address corresponding to the signature and forwarded.] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 Comment: Gratis auto-signing service iQBFAwUBLw4tbioZzwIn1bdtAQEM7gF9EZE2qciEPOqQTYjwiqDF9vakwzSS3DSh ZJy1S0gTP7kNSTDnm/8UuoVOxehFhJ+X =g0sd -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On Sat, 7 Jan 1995, "L. Todd Masco" <cactus@hks.net> wrote:
Like "Seventeen," "Wired" should prepend "don't you wish you were" to its title.
Ah, yes, I wish I were "(c) Both of the above" -- as the Sinatra lyric sez, "When I was seventeen, it was a very WiReD year..." I think generalizing about "Wired" is like generalizing about the NY Times, where Markoff and Lewis arguably exemplify the best and worst of mainstream computer/telecom journalism. "Wired" has many flaws, but I consider Steven Levy's articles about Cypherpunks, Whitfield Diffie, and digital cash to be among the best expositions of Cypherpunk issues for the layperson. (Kelly's "Whole Earth Review" piece is another.) I can forgive some faults in return for seeing Levy's non-technical explanations of public-key crypto and the Dining Cryptographers protocol in successive issues. :-) Alan Westrope <awestrop@nyx.cs.du.edu> __________/|-, <adwestro@ouray.denver.colorado.edu> (_) \|-' 2.6.2 public key: finger / servers PGP 0xB8359639: D6 89 74 03 77 C8 2D 43 7C CA 6D 57 29 25 69 23 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBLw7QeVRRFMq4NZY5AQEc8AQAqZ/Yp7+yEEYikZja/bF8c468I4C147q7 7AjuMsT1NN0Yt9HZB+mxtKdrbOL7QLyJgbk3c6NJ18nUkianZTnQNCEzr35BYwh7 7dCsIsiMWUVdjmahjEeppJZvKAZrRioW0KAMTnmPK6vWFXtttS0kl5k5FG/na3+n KJoDdNOVsTg= =lcQW -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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