A writer at Alternet just summarized Fast Company better than I've ever been able to: "According to a 2010 piece in Fast Company, the trade journal of the breathless bullshit industry" - in a piece on TED: http://www.alternet.org/media...
FastCo is also the magazine whose management's answer to the "brick wall between editorial and advertising" rule for any kind of real journalism is, apparently, "wall? what wall?"
- walt crawford
Took a pretty clean shot at TED as well
- WarLord
True, and in line with what else I've read. (Somehow I find conflating the two Chris Andersons convenient...)
- walt crawford
It's always nice to have actual reasons to bolster my instinctive disdain for that rag.
- laura x
Laura: My sense is that your instincts are generally pretty good. I take it (and will through 6/16 because of dirt-cheap long-term renewals) partly because after getting rid of Wired I thought I should have one Bright & Shiny mag...and thought FastCo had become less of a cult than it used to be. That's the third problem with FastCo: there's more than a touch of cultishness about it.
- walt crawford