{"id":2289,"date":"2007-07-10T03:29:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-10T03:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=2289"},"modified":"2007-07-10T03:29:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-10T03:29:00","slug":"2289","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=2289","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

KEEPING SOME FAST COMPANY<\/em><\/b><\/p>\n

Picked up the recent issue of Fast Company<\/a><\/em><\/strong> <\/a>at the airport, which represents the first time I’ve actually looked at the actual magazine and not a stray blog link to one of their articles. Have to say that I enjoyed it enough to contemplate ordering a subscription. The cover article on Al Gore<\/strong><\/a>, while hagiographic in a mildly sycophantic way, was nonetheless, very informative. The whole tone, while geared toward business, is accented by techno-futurism and looking across domains. I ended up reading the issue straight through.<\/p>\n

I still have a delight in magazines retained from the pre-internet era where getting the new issue in the mailbox represented a small pleasure. Currently, I subscribe to The Smithsonian<\/a><\/em><\/strong>, Edutopia<\/a><\/em><\/strong>, Esquire<\/a><\/em><\/strong>, The Atlantic Monthly<\/em><\/strong> <\/a>and GQ<\/a><\/em><\/strong>. Formerly, I did so with The Wilson Quarterly<\/a><\/em><\/strong>, Foreign Affairs<\/a><\/em><\/strong>, National Geographic<\/a><\/em><\/strong>, Foreign Policy<\/em><\/strong><\/a>, Men’s Fitness<\/a><\/em><\/strong>, Playboy<\/em><\/strong> <\/a>( strictly for the articles), Muscle & Fitness<\/a><\/em><\/strong>, Men’s Health<\/a>,<\/em><\/strong> Newsweek<\/a><\/em><\/strong>, The Columbia Journalism Review<\/a><\/em><\/strong>, Time<\/a><\/em><\/strong>, U.S. News & World Report<\/a>, National Review<\/em><\/strong> and several local newspapers. My tendency was for the periodical pile to steadily grow to epic proportions until backlogged and unread material threatened to collapse the coffee table.<\/p>\n

The internet has rendered such an excess of dead tree text superfluous and I no longer have the free time to even entertain trying to keep up with that kind of deluge. However, I still pick up some of those at the bookstore, along with magazines to which I’ve never subscribed, like Scientific American<\/a><\/em><\/strong>, The Economist<\/a><\/em><\/strong>, The New Republic<\/em><\/strong> <\/a>, The Nation<\/em><\/strong> <\/a>and The National Interest<\/a><\/em><\/strong>. The change in point of view or subject matter always does me some good.<\/p>\n

What do you read ? Or not read ?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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