RE: [MLUG] Online Writer Needed

["Ross, Matthew" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Title: Re: [MLUG] Online Writer Needed

Sadly, they've done that with Junkyard Wars. I liked it before, but then they started inciting arguments to make it "interesting" to the people too stupid to figure out what is being built. Now its just sad.

-----Original Message-----
From: Jerry Gamblin [mailto:EMAIL:PROTECTED]On Behalf Of Jerry Gamblin
Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2003 10:27 AM
To: MLUG Members
Subject: RE: [MLUG] Online Writer Needed

So are you trying to go for the tech tv model? They throw women on their shows so that the avarage dork will watch no matter how boring or out of date the information is.  

-----Original Message-----
From: Nathan Odle [mailto:EMAIL:PROTECTED]
Sent: Tue 10/7/2003 10:21 AM
To: MLUG Members
Cc:
Subject: Re: [MLUG] Online Writer Needed

Ashley Holloway wrote:

> Email to where off list??
>

Sorry!  Email here:  linux AT odle.biz  (goes without saying, but
replace the AT with a @)

By the way, I didn't specifically note it in my email, but I'd encourage
all interested women to apply!  I won't necessarily give preference to
you, but I will say that we're interested in finding a qualified female
that can connect with the everyday audience.

-Nathan


>
> At 08:42 AM 10/7/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>
>> I posted this about a year ago, but didn't really get the responses I
>> was looking for, so I'll try again :)
>>
>> I am a partner in a tech- and computing-oriented website that is
>> starting to really get off the ground.  We've got a lot of bandwidth,
>> hosting bills are paid for the next 2 years, and the site runs off a
>> professionaly-written content management system.  We're basically an
>> empty shell at this point - we've floated a few test articles (one of
>> mine was even slashdotted) but have yet to really start in earnest.
>> We have no advertising (as of yet) so we're pretty much doing this
>> for the hobby of it - that, and any hardware given to us for review. 
>> My partner has visited COMDEX 2 years in a row, and has made some
>> good contacts, so we've got a number of companies that should be able
>> to get us product for review.
>>
>> One thing we really need at this point is another writer.  Day-to-day
>> tech news is hard to keep up with for us, and it'd be really nice to
>> have someone that we could count on to sign up for all the press
>> release mailing lists, hunt down other news, and make several
>> postings a day.
>> We plan to do a feature article every couple of weeks, and can pretty
>> much handle that ourselves, but if the new person has some ideas
>> we're pretty open to letting them run with it.  Hardware reviews are
>> also a significant responsibility.  The good part is, you get to keep
>> the hardware most of the time!
>> With that being said, I'm looking for a qualified person to fill this
>> position.  If you wrote to me the last time, feel free to toss your
>> hat into the ring again.  Here are the qualifications we're looking for:
>>
>> - No computer geek egos...I don't care how much you know.  Your job
>> isn't going to be to impress people with your m4d sk1llz, rather you
>> should be able to communicate easily and make the readers comfortable.
>>
>> - A good knowledge of technology and computing.  We don't want the
>> guy that calls Gateway tech support because their "Bobo the Pocket
>> Monkey" screensaver won't start up.
>>
>> - An understanding of experimental design, mainly for use in reviews.
>> This was in your 8th grade science curriculum...you really ought to
>> understand independent variables, controls, and how to make good
>> looking bar graphs.
>>
>> - And finally, good writing skills.  I would think that this goes
>> without saying, but you should have seen some of the responses I got
>> last time.  You don't have to be Hemmingway (lord knows I'm not) -
>> just have some reasonably good spelling and grammar, along with a
>> good sense of where you're going with whatever your're writing.
>>
>>
>> So if you're interested, email me off-list.  This position would be
>> GREAT for the person who is looking to start their own site, but just
>> hasn't made it happen for whatever reason.  We've already done the
>> hard part in getting the infrastructure put up, and we'll likely give
>> whomever gets the job pretty free rein.
>> If you sound like a good candidate, I will probably ask you for a
>> sample of your writing, so you should probably be prepared for that. 
>> If you can send a sample along with your email, that'd be even better.
>>
>> If you want a look at the site (like I said, no real content yet but
>> the layout is final), check it out here:  http://www.fastsilicon.com
>>
>> While I'm at it, might as well pimp my blog:
>> http://www.autobiosynthesis.com
>>
>> -Nathan
>>
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