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If you read magazines like Wired or Inc. (yes, both still appear in print on actual paper), you may have noticed offers from Google and Facebook on those little pull-out/fall-out cards that are annoyingly tucked, glued or stapled into just about every magazine. The offers are basically identical and provide a unique code to cash [...]

The distance created by my multi-year tardiness in reading Kevin Kelly’s 2004 essay “We Are The Web” gave me enhanced appreciation of it. Here: my advocacy for your reading it … and a video in case you’re insufficiently motivated to do so.

What you want, when you want it, as often as you want it – without cable or satellite … it’s easier than ever. Just don’t tell me it’s about saving money.

A few weeks ago, I had the opportunity to see Chris Anderson, editor in chief of Wired magazine and author of “The Long Tail” and “Free,” present an idea he’s been selling around: the tablet computer can save magazine publishing.