Dylan Tweney

I’ll admit it: I got into journalism for the money. Columbia Journalism School dean Nicholas Lemann has said: “I’ve never met a single person in 35 years who went into journalism out of pure economic reason.” He never met me. While my motivation wasn’t purely financial, I’d be lying if I said that w

Brian X. Chen wrote a moving story about how three professional photographers are continuing to pursue their art even though they’re almost totally blind. One of them went blind after he’d become a photographer, but has found a way to continue working using a Nokia N82 and an iPhone 3GS. This piece

Happiest People Ever!

Before the Nikes, before the breathable, antimicrobial running shorts, before the personal fitness coaches, heart rate monitors, wrist-mounted GPS and subscriptions to Runner’s World, you were a runner. And, like all children, you ran barefoot. Now, a small but growing body of research suggests that

Los Angeles gossip site TMZ got the scoop that Michael Jackson died. They had it about half an hour after paramedics arrived, and about 15 minutes ahead of the LA Times. When the LA Times blog was just reporting that MJ was in the hospital, and then in a coma, TMZ already had a headline […]

Twitter, circa 1935

Thanks for your careful attention to our blogs. It may come as a surprise to you to find out that Wired publishes about 10 different blogs, accounting for a total of 50-100 articles per day, with a staff of about 25. By contrast, Wired magazine publishes about 85-100 pages of stories per month with

Arnulfo Quimare and Scott Jurek, two of the greatest ultra-long distance runners right now. “Got it!” Luis said, dropping back

This is a hell of an obit about a man who must have been a hell of a writer. Not being a sports fan, I hadn’t heard about Bud Shrake until I read this, and now I’m sorry I missed him. I’m pretty sure they aren’t making journalists like this any more. Sally Jenkins – […]

This is one of the most fun interviews I’ve done in a long time. Wired.com Video: High-Tech Cellist Fuses Music, MacBook | Gadget Lab | Wired.com.

Mini bio of Claude Shannon, founder of modern information theory: April 30, 1916: Information Theory, Who’s Your Daddy? | This Day In Tech.

Google Maps Typography, by Rhett Dashwood.