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  <title>Comments for Evanescence of the Treekillers</title>
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    <published>2007-08-24T07:55:20Z</published>
    <updated>2007-08-24T08:13:53Z</updated>
    <title>Evanescence of the Treekillers</title>
    <summary>I like PC Magazine, and I&apos;ve been reading it for pretty much my whole life, but I still can&apos;t help but think that the homepage...</summary>
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      <name>Anil</name>
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      <![CDATA[<p>I like PC Magazine, and I've been reading it for pretty much my whole life, but I still can't help but think that the <a href="http://www.pcmag.com/category2/0,1874,30,00.asp">homepage for opinion columns</a> contains <em>two different</em> Editors-in-Chief's "goodbye" articles. I'm the kind of nerd who still enjoys reading computer magazines, and as often as not I'll grab a PC Mag or PC World or something like that before I hop on a plane, just as a reminder of how interesting it can be to see technology in that context. (Any news or reviews covered by the print issue have almost always been discussed to death online by the time the magazine comes out.)</p>

<p>It's interesting to see how this has played out across the tech magazine space. InfoWorld <a href="http://weblog.infoworld.com/techwatch/archives/010942.html">recently killed their print magazine entirely</a>. And <a href="http://www.eweek.com/">eWeek</a> had a recent print redesign where the magazine now features a narrative-based lead section called "Upfront" that pretty openly apes the New Yorker's <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/talk">Talk of the Town</a>, but in a nerdy context. Surprisingly, it works pretty well, and it makes me enjoy reading the content in print form, as opposed to just skimming online. I'm hoping at least a handful of these magazines find a way to make a go of it in print, now that their audiences aren't relying on print for any time-sensitive tech news.</p>]]>
      
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    <title>Comment from David Adams on 2007-08-24</title>
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        <name>David Adams</name>
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        <![CDATA[<p>My favorite aspect of this phenomenon is the state of Computer Shopper. 15 years ago that mag was a 500-page oversize newsprint-laden beast that even with a dozen or more interesting columns was 99% ads with every respectable and not mail-order outfit listing every available component in tiny print. I could sift through those things for <i>days</i>.</p>

<p>Now it's a 40 page ultraglossy of no particular note, and I just get all my bits and pieces from Newegg.</p>]]>
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    <published>2007-08-24T15:01:06Z</published>
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