Comments on: Conde Nast buys Ars Technica

Publishing company will fit the decade-old technology enthusiast site alongside Wired.com in its modest stable of online properties.

[unknown unknown]

Hopefully they don't ruin it.

[ewelch]

Oh lordy, Wired takes over ARS? Thus begins the downfall.

[ServedUp]

Nah, I say news.com is going down. I mean what's up with the main page.
Can anybody say UgLy? The "Just In" headline with all those headline links
seems like it was a designed by committee. But the design of the site
overall has definitely gone down. Seems like they're under going a power struggle.

But ARS is way cool! Same with Wired.com. These are hip tech sites
geared to everyone including the gen-Y crowd. Just hope it doesn't get too anal, like
ZDNET or CNET for that matter.

[Galaxy5]

CBS buys News.com. WIRED buys Ars.

This is the end of the innocence. Remember when magazines were like Harper's during the Civil War? Yeah. That's over now.

[andyross]

News.com was not a small company, unless you consider $1,800,000,000 to be a small company.

I read ArsTechnica regularly, although I wonder what is going on with the journals links on the right. Now when you click on an icon, it opens all the articles instead of just showing the titles.

[andyross]

News.com was not a small company, unless you consider $1,800,000,000 to be a small company.

I read ArsTechnica regularly, although I wonder what is going on with the journals links on the right. Now when you click on an icon, it opens all the articles instead of just showing the titles.