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The New Dead Media Expert at Wired
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In the last year, the other two Snarkmasters switched jobs, with Robin joining Twitter and Matt moving to NPR. Well, friends, scratch off number three. Starting Wednesday, I’ll be a full-time contributor for Wired.com, writing about e-readers and emerging technology and all things awesome for Gadget Lab, plus maybe occasional pieces elsewhere in the Wired.com ecosystem. That’s right — me and Jonah Lehrer are going to get this whole fourth culture thing started.

Now, you may have heard that Wired editors Chris Anderson and Michael Wolff declared that “The Web is Dead, Long Live the Internet,” in a magazine cover story that was also featured prominently at Wired.com. Let me tell you, friends, I was delighted to hear the news. You see, writing about the web has always made me feel a little uncomfortable. Not the actual writing — just the explaining it to other people part.

You see, I worked so hard to become an expert on dead media, like the book and the newspaper and cinema and poetry, that writing about something living, even using something living, always felt like the grave robbing the cradle.

Now my portfolio is much tidier. Radio and TV hosts can introduce my credentials in one line: “Tim Carmody, renowned expert on dead media and its future.” It’s probably why they hired me in the first place.

[Actually, they advertised the job, I applied, they gave me a one-day tryout (One,Two,Three), and then gave me the nod at the end of the past week, while I was writing for Kottke. It’s been a heady month.]

Anyways, I hope you’ll stop by and bring the Snarkmatrix love to the comments over there. Tell your friends. Link to what I write, all the time, even or especially when you think I’m wrong. (I’ll be able to explain why I’m not.)

And of course, I’ll still be right here, writing about culture, really old technology, and everything else. The paisley just wouldn’t be right without the blue, orange, and green.

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What a win for wired.web. Congratulations Tim, it’s well deserved!

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Awesome news, Tim! Wired‘s lucky to have you, and the more places where I can read your stuff, the better.

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The Snarkmatrix spreads its wings, casting a nerdy shadow across the land… (in this dramatization, the village represents tech media.)

Congratulations, Tim. This is gonna be great. Link to your posts there early & often! We’ll all be following along.

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Hey, awesome! Congratulations! I hope they find an excuse to have you come visit the mothership so I can finally meet you.

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Oh wow, that’s wonderful! Hooray!

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Betty Ann says…

Con­grat­u­la­tions Tim! I’m adding Gadget Lab to my feed. Loved your Kottke stint.

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