COMMENTARY--About two years ago, I wrote a controversial column entitled "Are computer magazines dead?" At the time, traditional tech advertisers were fleeing to more mainstream pastures, new economy ...

The shift from receiving information via paper to computer and mobile applications has created a proliferation of online communications, including magazines, or e-zines. Online magazines originally ...

With Maximum PC and MacLife’s abandonment of print, the dead-tree era of computer journalism is officially over. It lasted almost half a century—and was quite a run. I spent most of that time at PC ...

Magazines are so retro: If you are anything like me, you probably remember the days when you subscribed to multiple computing magazines. I still have fond memories of typing out the computer programs ...

At its peak, Computer Shopper may have consumed more wood pulp each month than any other magazine of any sort, ever: It consistently ran over 1,000 pages oversized a month in the early 1990s. (I ...

I came across this gem of a fact in that year’s November issue of MacUser Magazine—a small item right near the announcement that Apple was working on the ability to generate digitized speech. You see, ...

After all, that was the issue with a cover story that–editorial director Arthur Salzburg declared in his editorial–ushered in the home computer age. He was being portentous. But history also happens ...

COMMENTARY--About two years ago, I wrote a controversial column entitled "Are computer magazines dead?" At the time, traditional tech advertisers were fleeing to more mainstream pastures, new economy ...