I suppose in some ways I should be happy about this news from the New York Times:
Beginning next Thursday, as part of a reorganization of technology news coverage, the weekly Circuits pages will appear in Business Day, with David Pogue’s column on the front page of that section.
The Game Theory column will move to the Weekend section, beginning on April 8. The Online Shopper column will return on April 14 in a section to be introduced that day.
Circuits will also appear several times a year as a special section, beginning with a May 4 issue on wireless living.
In a way, it’s a sign that the technology that dominates so much of my life is moving into the mainstream. (Remember those brief, shining years at the end of the 1990s when it was actually cool to be a geek? Maybe they could return!)
But this is pretty clearly the end of the Circuits section as we know it. And that breaks my heart, because Circuits has been one of the great constants of my life with Alex. She introduced me to it, part of her cunning scheme to get me hooked on the Times. (It worked.) And when I was freelancing, we’d while away many a Thursday morning at Caf?© Zen poring over Circuits between cups of coffee and the fluffiest pancakes in Vancouver.
Sic transit gloria Thursday, Circuits.
