WHAT I’VE BEEN READING: The WIRED app for the iPad

3 Comments | Posted: May 27th, 2010 | Filed under: iPaddery, What I've Been Reading | Tags: ,

It’s pretty neat. There’s a lot to be said for embedding video and audio, (even – if not especially — in revenue-generating ads) and the interactivity in articles (click buttons to view different products that are being reviewed on the same page, or get a step-by step of the assembly of that famous ice hotel or listen to a Trent Reznor track in progress) is handled in an unobtrusive, natural manner that reminds me of a highly-refined version of their website. There are issues, though: the vertical scrolling inside of an article is not obvous enough and I was honestly a bit confused the first time I came across it and while editorial has worked hard to make sure the layout works in both landscape and portrait orientations, there’s at least one article fragment in the inaugural installment that is driving me up the wall

Still, $5 for a future magazine that doesn’t litter my floor with those annoying subscription cards and cleverly gets me to look at and interact with advertising? That’s a perfect price point. This is the first issue of Wired I’ve read cover-to-cover in years and I’m pretty sure they’ve got their hooks in me for future installments.

Read About Civil Suits!

2 Comments | Posted: August 21st, 2008 | Filed under: Outbound Linkage, Thinking About Comics | Tags: , , ,


So, a nonprofit created a comic book designed to scare kids who download music under the guise of teaching them about the court system. According to the Wired blog (where you can download a PDF):
It was produced by the National Center for State Courts, a nonprofit describing itself as an “organization dedicated to improving the administration of justice by providing leadership and service to court systems in the United States.”
(I am not going to talk about how patently evil this comic makes the RIAA look, because I think we’re all pretty familiar with how that particularly organization operates, right?)

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