The holiday season is upon us and the mind goes to this incredible year and the incredible challenges and opportunities that came with it. And I have a confession to make: once upon a time I was a well paid technical journalist, people would depend on my articles to know what was hot and what was not in the computer field. I even became editor in chief of a very successful monthly magazine, with testing labs, full time staff and all that.
And boy did that feel great. Readers would wait for the next issue to come out and they would write e-mail or letters inquiring about some subject and we would pick just the most “significant” and publish them with our answer (usually 1 out of 20 because of the limited space on the magazine). We also gave some e-mail answers but the magazine remained the center point of gravitation for the whole system.
And then the Internet came about and all of us journalists, along with the publishers and the advertising people, started reasoning how this would have changed our way of working. We figured out that people would come to our site in addition to our magazine and everything seemed familiar again. We were in control of the news and the publishing tools. We had control of the advertising so, we were still ruling. It was very expensive at that time (year 2000) to have a software to publish your articles on a site.
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