Comments on: Shift folds

Shift folds

boost ventilator — Thu, 20 Feb 2003 06:15:52 -0800

Shift given shaft - After over 10 years, it looks like Shift Magazine (founded by Evan Solomon and Andrew Heintzman and published by Multi-Vision Publishing Inc.) is going away...again. The last issue will hit newsstands the first week of March.

By: maudlin

maudlin — Thu, 20 Feb 2003 06:28:55 -0800

I'm trying to claim Shift as a charitable donation on my tax return this year. I've subscribed for several years, including the 2000/2001 death-and-rebirth sequence, and couldn't tell you exactly how much I've paid to get X number of issues. It arrives, it doesn't arrive: I've kept renewing and reading when an issue does show up. Behold the power of intermittent reinforcement!

By: mecran01

mecran01 — Thu, 20 Feb 2003 07:50:07 -0800

bummer that wired has gotten kind of lame. Perhaps someone will fill the void. Although Wired has improved a little since the acquisition.

By: internal

internal — Thu, 20 Feb 2003 07:58:56 -0800

--smirk-- I am supposed to know what Shift is? I don't get magazines.

By: PinkStainlessTail

PinkStainlessTail — Thu, 20 Feb 2003 08:07:34 -0800

It'll be back, just like Spy. Oh wait.

By: blamb

blamb — Thu, 20 Feb 2003 08:26:56 -0800

Good riddance. More lag than mag.

By: y6y6y6

y6y6y6 — Thu, 20 Feb 2003 08:34:29 -0800

I love Shift. Very sad.

By: jmcnally

jmcnally — Thu, 20 Feb 2003 08:35:29 -0800

There was nothing else like it. I guess even when it wasn't great, it was good. I'll miss it.

By: johnnydark

johnnydark — Thu, 20 Feb 2003 10:51:41 -0800

Too bad it was WIRED Lite. All attitude, no substance. Die SHIFT, die.

By: arielmeadow

arielmeadow — Thu, 20 Feb 2003 10:59:54 -0800

[warning: self link!] Y'all should all be sure to read my article on Shift.com about Helen Jane, the Hollywood Blogger-for-hire, before the website disappears. And stay away from the brown acid.

By: trillion

trillion — Thu, 20 Feb 2003 12:16:00 -0800

Sad to see it go, especially considering I've only gotten about 2-3 issues out of my year long subscription. Me thinks you naysayers haven't really given it a good read.

By: Marquis

Marquis — Thu, 20 Feb 2003 13:59:17 -0800

Sad. Shift is - or was - a terrific magazine. Whereas Wired started as a publication devoted to technoculture, it gradually turned into a gadget-catalogue and hitech-big-business journal. Shift stayed true to the (much more interesting) issues of design, internet society, and the way that emerging technology affects trends, ethics, art, and more. I too hope it returns soon. My website ran an interview with Shift editor Neil Morton in 2001, just after the mag had been brought back from the brink. A couple of the things he said make Shift's loss all the more tragic, to me: "I believe in Shift. The staff believes in Shift. The owners believe in Shift. The Shift community believes in Shift. So that's a pretty good starting point, eh? We'll be around for a long time." "Wired is essentially a business magazine these days and tends to take a rah-rah approach to applications/gadgets. Shift doesn't do that. [...] We look at implications of tech, not applications. "

By: teradome

teradome — Thu, 20 Feb 2003 14:44:03 -0800

If any of you Shifters are reading this, please try to put up a site to track your writings going forward -- Shift was one of the only magazines around I still read from cover to cover, and that was simply on the quality of its writers and its editors. Reading Shift reminded you that people still honestly believe that technology can improve the world for us all. You could always count on it for a fresh North American view on "digital culture" where normally the landscape is muddled by consumerism and gadget lust, and I'm really going to miss it.

By: mecran01

mecran01 — Thu, 20 Feb 2003 18:07:16 -0800

Webgrabber is a utility for OS X that can grab entire websites. Shift is about 35mb. I don't mind a little gadget lust.