From: James Rogers (jamesr@best.com)
Date: Wed Jun 06 2001 - 00:05:50 MDT
On 6/5/01 10:35 PM, "Ben Goertzel" <ben@goertzel.org> wrote:
>
> so why did Wired thrive and Extropy and Mondo 2000 not? I guess just
> *because* Wired became fairly shallow and commercial and mainstream...
Because Wired was sexy, accessible, and had quite a bit of content (in the
early days at least). Mondo 2000 was sexy, but lacking content and only
moderately accessible. Extropy had content, but wasn't sexy or very
accessible. Or at least these were my impressions from the early days,
observing these things from the outside.
Wired struck a good balance of sexiness, content, and accessibility, which
is why I think they were successful. They started to die when the content
started to wither.
-James Rogers
jamesr@best.com
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