"It's not a subscription; it's more casual than that. It's an **impulscription**; they get the chance to dangle the week's headlines under your nose, and you get the chance to buy if you like the look of that issue. No obligation, no hassle. It means I never have to miss an Economist Technology Quarterly, and nor do I have to take out a proper subscription and then suffer the guilt of seeing unread copies piling up in the living room.

I want all magazines to be available like this, please." What a great idea. (Also: I *love* 'impulscription').

Joel Johnson rounds on Wired for the gulf between their online and printed formats; the comments thread turns into a much more rational, and reasonable, discussion from many Wired staff, past and present.

"David Rowan’s editorship of the UK edition of Wired raises many questions. The first being “Who is going to be his number two?”" The answer is Hammersley. That could be good.

"FHM was selling 800,000 for a reason, and it wasn’t to those of us who’ve seen all three endings of Deus Ex" Gillen talks about the resurgence of PC Accelerator.

Lovingly documented via scanned-in hand-drawn notes, the emergence of the first real cross-platform "micro games magazine". Really interesting, especially the constant desire to draw comparison between gaming and pop music.