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Techie Business Magazines Get Too Big

from the hefty-magazine dept

Tue, Mar 21st 2000 11:32am — Mike Masnick

If you still receive any techie business magazines in their paper format (personally, I've ditched most of my subscriptions), you'll notice that those magazines are getting very heavy. Salon discusses this problem. I did just receive the latest Business 2.0 and discovered that it barely fit in the mailbox. Anyway, for execs who are worried they can't possibly read through all of that, I have a simple solution: just read Techdirt.

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anonymous, 21 Mar 2000 @ 12:00pm

I agree
I definitely agree with you here. I used to have subscriptions to byte, pcmag, pcworld and windowsmag. But, once I upgraded to a 14.4 from my 9600, and found I could get it all online, I haven't looked back. Occasionally I'll pick one of these magazines up on a plane flight, and I'm amazed at how much of the mag is adverts. That's the real reason why they are so big.
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Stress, 21 Mar 2000 @ 8:32pm

Long Live Techdirt
Right on! Keep writing the dirt on technology. I don't want to read through those advertisement bloated magazines.
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  Re: Long Live Techdirt
  big thank
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Brian, 21 Mar 2000 @ 9:45pm

Ahhhhhh....
I am so friggin' tired of these big magazines! I am about ready to cancel my Fast Company, but when the Red Herring did it that was the last straw!!!!
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Anonymous Coward, 28 Sep 2006 @ 7:22am

thank
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