<i>The recycling principle is part of Wired's approach to its international expansion. But it also reveals what the German edition is lacking: Being up-to-the-minute is clearly not the top priority. For a magazine that deals with the extremely fast-moving digital world, that can sometimes be a problem. Several months ago you could, for example, already read elsewhere -- including on SPIEGEL ONLINE -- that Tetsuya Mizuguchi's video game "Child of Eden" is an abstract masterpiece. True digital hipsters will not find much that is new in the German Wired</i><p>Isn't that also true of the English-language version? How can a print publication compete with what's on-line for reporting what's he latest and greatest?<p>That was one reason I canceled my subscription some years ago. The other reason was that it had become a catalog of toys and bling for the well-off, with what seemed like more ads than content.