Getting published in *Wired*
Arthur Chandler (arthurc@SFSU.EDU)
Sun, 17 Dec 1995 11:17:07 -0800
If you get a chance to take a peek at my mini-piece on "overlinking" in
the "Idees Fortes" section of the latest (winter, 1996) issue of *Wired*,
take a trip over to http://charon.sfsu.edu/overlinked.html. The online
essay is of course much closer to my original intent -- exactly
equivalent to it, in fact, since I put it on the site myself. To see the
reduced, condensed and boiled down version in *Wired* next to what I
originally sent in is to see vividly how editorial decisions can and do
shape the final form of your ideas in the conventional media publishing
process.
Mind you, I'm not complaining about what a cruel editor did to my
deathless prose. They paid me, and editors have (or feel that have) to
reshape their "copy" into a format commensurate with their assigned space
in the magazine. My main point is not to complain about the editorial
process, but to celebrate the fact that, even though the published piece
emerged much altered in the editorial compression chamber, I can now
offer my original vision on the www for all (who care) to see.
-- Arthur Chandler