Wanna find people on your wavelength? Here's the place to do it!
Wavelength offers several features. Firstly we'll be showing off the best of the e-mail responses to our articles. We also give you the opportunity to e-mail us and lastly we introduce a new chat aspect! We hope you like the new features and do e-mail us your comments! [ jump to chat details ]
Nat Pryce from Imperial College, London responded to our unWired article:
"I think the reason Wired failed in the UK is not that the Europe is "unwired" as you put it. For example, the UK has the world's fastest growing telecomms market, fantastic electronic music culture and the world's best video-games industry. The reason Wired failed was that it was too gullible, its writers seemed to know very little about the technology they were hyping and never made any value judgements about the topics it covered. It read like one long, amateurish press release. It's no wonder that Wired was nicknamed 'Wowed' among the people that I know :-) "
Jeep replies: We had an e-mail discussion following this post and we concluded that when I said "unwired" I wasn't speaking physically. Britain is pretty wired up with fibre-optic but Wired magazine is about a state of mind. Precisely what that state of mind is, I'm not in a position to say, but my interpretation of it was an entrepreneurial, creative and go get 'em attitude. This kind of attitude has been lacking in the UK for many reasons including, but not restricted to, a less than vibrant economy, stricter legislation and fewer forward thinking investors. Wired was hyping technology, it wanted to show people what could be done with these new wonders. If you think big you might just do big!
So what's all this about chat?!? Not idle natter but serious discussion - connect to irc.demon.co.uk with an Internet Relay Chat client like mIRC and connect to the #j-dom channel at 4.30pm (GMT) on Sunday 9th March till about 6.30pm. I'll be there (Jason Kitcat: Editor-in-Chief) and some other contributors might turn up! So come along and discuss the important issues that matter to the Net.
Wanna comment? Send 'em to sysop@j-dom.demon.co.uk
We'd love your contributions! e-mail anything good to us at sysop@j-dom.demon.co.uk
Anything else? Well e-mail us at (you guessed it!) sysop@j-dom.demon.co.uk
© 1997 j-dom Media. Contact us!
