At 7:54 PM -0800 5/9/97, Declan McCullagh wrote:
Thanks, Tim. I've decided I should ditch the Time Magazine style I think of as "high analysis" and return to more opinionated writing. I feel better about the latter, and I think it's more interesting to read. That's what I was doing at HotWired; I've been experimenting more at Netly.
I sympathize with your situation, such as I understand it. (I was gone from Intel by 1986, long before public issues became so common, long before the Net was as influential as today. No doubt, were I still at Intel, or elsewhere, I would be constrained in what I would be allowed to write about.) Writing for "Time" or "Newsweek" will work for only a very few folks. Levy, for example, does a quite reasonable job for "Newsweek"..but, then, he went to "Newsweek" with a long history of Net contributions (notably, "Hackers," of course) and writes in his own style. (I'm not sure who writes for "Time," as I no longer read any of the newsweeklies, or dailies. Last I looked, it was Elmer-Dewitt who ran the show.) Frankly, I'm not sure there's any reasonable amount of money to be made in journalism these days, for various reasons I won't get into right now. A war is coming (arguably, the opening shots have already been fired) and the newsweeklies are a poor place for anyone with actual principles. --Tim May There's something wrong when I'm a felon under an increasing number of laws. Only one response to the key grabbers is warranted: "Death to Tyrants!" ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, tcmay@got.net 408-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, Higher Power: 2^1398269 | black markets, collapse of governments. "National borders aren't even speed bumps on the information superhighway."