Comments on: Wired Magazine as a Technology Market Barometer

by: otro blog m�s » La lista de los reyes

Tue, 13 Dec 2005 13:25:07 +0000

[…] [Nota: hace unos d�as vi un an�lisis que relacionaba la cantidad de p�ginas de Wired con el valor del �ndice Nasdaq del mes (aqu�)…] […]

by: Jack Cheng

Mon, 05 Dec 2005 20:07:11 +0000

Wired Magazine: the Barometer

Richard Giles put up this overlay of the pagecount of issues of Wired since 1996 and the performance of the Nasdaq over the same time period.

There has been lots of writing and analysis on Wired as a cultural barometer for all things tech. Here are…

by: crazymonk.org » Wired v. Nasdaq | not the great american blog

Mon, 05 Dec 2005 19:38:55 +0000

[…] Wired magazine as a technology market barometer. As the number of pages increase and decrease, so does the Nasdaq. I do recall noticing the heft of the latest issue when I got it in the mail. (via waxy) […]

by: Tyson Rogers

Mon, 05 Dec 2005 17:21:38 +0000

I've examined the "christmas whore" phenomenon. The evidence for this seasonal effect is pretty good and seems to include November as well as December.

by: Pramit Singh

Mon, 05 Dec 2005 09:11:33 +0000

It says volumes about Wired. It still rocks!

by: Test Blog » Blog Archive » Misc links

Mon, 05 Dec 2005 03:02:22 +0000

[…] (via Boing Boing) A plot of the Wired Magazine page count and the Nasdaq index. Coincidence? or not?. Hmmm […]

by: dgtlmoon

Sun, 04 Dec 2005 22:57:43 +0000

theres also the trendwatcher which a friend of mine is using to track the popularity of a company he has shares in .. click here to see more... Hunter hall investment

by: BIll Bradford

Sun, 04 Dec 2005 20:14:52 +0000

I’ve also noticed they’re “moving up” in the world - ads this month for Lexus / Rolex / etc.

by: Firas

Sun, 04 Dec 2005 06:35:34 +0000

Do you mind sharing the data itself? In particular I wonder what a linear regression of the two sets of data would show rather than a raw plot.

by: Richard Giles

Sun, 04 Dec 2005 05:48:37 +0000

Craig.

I agree and I did consider that. Except, the last time the magazine exceeded this months page count was December 2000 (418).

Last Christmas it was only 142, with November 04 being 230.

by: Richard Giles

Sun, 04 Dec 2005 05:26:15 +0000

Rex - Thanks for the correction. When I imported the data from Yahoo I forgot to correct the descending numbers to ascending. I’d now corrected this in the new image.

Wired doesn’t trend up before the Nasdaq, it just tracks it now.

by: Ho John Lee's Weblog

Sun, 04 Dec 2005 03:20:11 +0000

Sure sign of a boomlet underway…

…the business and technology magazines are getting thicker again. The latest issue of Wired magazine is 294 pages, Forbes is 280. Not in the phonebook-sized range yet, but noticeably heavier than they’ve been in a while.

Apparently, Ads…

by: Rex

Sun, 04 Dec 2005 02:19:57 +0000

The NASDAQ graphic is backwards. It is, really, check this out:

http://marketwatch.nytimes.com/custom/nyt-com/html-companyprofile.asp?sid=3291&time=10yr&uf=0&x=56&y=12

The NASDAQ was in the 1,000 level 10 years ago and it is in the 2,000 level now, that’s why when I saw your graphics it looked strange. In yours looks like it is LOWER now than 10 years ago.

So… any more predictions on tech? >-/

by: Craig Hughes

Sun, 04 Dec 2005 01:00:39 +0000

I think you’re overlooking the “Wired is a christmas whore” phenomenon, which probably largely accounts for the increase in magazine length this month. There is a noticeable peak about 12 months ago (hard to tell x-axis scale from the chart, but it looks like about 12 slope changes back) which I would guess corresponds to last year’s christmas whore edition too.

by: Alex

Sat, 03 Dec 2005 15:37:40 +0000

Jim Cramer of Mad Money has been calling for a tech rally for several months. Its good to see this backing that up!