I don't talk much about my day job here, but this has been such a good past ten days that I hope you'll indulge me in a few call-outs.
First, Wired won the National Magazine Awards top prize, General Excellence, in the 500,000 to 1 million circulation category. That's the Oscars of our industry and a huge honor (the second time in three years). I'm really proud of the team that runs the magazine so well while I'm on endless book tour, reading pages as PDFs on my Treo. The only credit I deserve is for hiring them.
Then, the Society for Publication Designers gave us the overall Silver in our circ category, along with the Gold for best cover of the year (shown), and for the best design for an overall story (for our Six Word Science Fiction piece). This is all due to Scott Dadich, our genius Creative Director.
On top of that, there was the Time 100 and getting named to the MIN "Digital Hall of Fame" (am I old enough to be in a hall of fame?). All in all a pretty good two weeks. Now I'm due to fall in a hole or at least have a gruesome typo on the cover. Such good fortune can't last.
WIRED deserves its awards. Enjoy them. Congratulations to you and your terrific staff.
The previous "comment" ain't no comment.
Posted by: Irene Grumman | May 12, 2007 at 04:48 PM
Congratulations to you and everyone at Wired. Wired has become a critical part of my periodical consumption over the years. The writing, photography and layout, demonstrate again and again that these awards are well earned.
Posted by: BWJones | May 12, 2007 at 09:19 PM
Another cool thing you can bask in from the last week or so is that Mathematica version 6 has come out and includes a Demonstration package of the Long Tail. Check it out at http://demonstrations.wolfram.com/TheLongTail/
How do a few magazine awards compare to that?
I mean, Wired rocks, but Mathematica......
Posted by: Mike Pearson | May 13, 2007 at 01:51 PM
A tip of the hat from a Wired evangelist in Amsterdam. Wired and the Long Tail make good sources of inspiration for those of us working in and around museums.
Posted by: Juha van 't Zelfde | May 14, 2007 at 03:43 AM
Nice job. Wired is one of the few great magazines in print today, and the awards are well deserved.
Posted by: Rob MacKay | May 14, 2007 at 07:44 PM
Chris,
The discussion on The Long Tail reminded me once more why WIRED is great! I am currently working on real business implications of Web 2.0 and how these are beginning to determine Business Strategy 2.0 and your blog once more provided additional food for thought.
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