Now that the fall print MISC is out, work begins immediately on the next one. It will be the first issue planned with national distribution in mind. We won’t stop writing about Seattle, but our writings about Seattle will necessarily include more background material so the out-of-town readers can get into the narratives.

This will be the “Recession Is Good For You” issue, in which we shall discuss the (real) possibilities of forging a new, more people-friendly economy out of the smoldering remains of the one we have. Get your submissions in now. Speaking of economies…

WIRED MAGAZINE may now be media-conglomerate owned, but it apparently still operates under the Global Business Network ideology of its Frisco-elitist founders. Witness the current cover story, the first one in which the mag has had anything nice to say about Microsoft. And just what is it about MS that Wired thinks is so hunky-dory, peachy-keeny, and revolutionary? Contracting XBox video-game manufacturing out to the Third World! It’s a godsend for management; and as for the US workers, well they never really mattered ’cause they never earned enough to belong to the magazine’s target demographic.