Thank you. I did not know Mageek that well but he gave me my first break into online journalism – it wasn’t an easy or automatic transition from print by any means. I wrote for his site, the Inquirer, for years.
Sadly it’s gone now, though archived. I saved a couple of my stories, e.g.
Not to speak ill of the dead, but this person was important not in tech, but in reporting on tech. It’s no more fitting here than an obituary for Crazy Eddy–who sold a lot of technology but did not create much technology–would be.
We should be careful about normalizing submissions around second and third order submissions on the industry, because that very quickly spirals into spam and loss of coherence.
Go down that road and you’ll pretty quickly get to Steve Jobs and Elon Musk and Clive Sinclair being off topic.
Magee & Lettice were pioneers in tech reporting being something other than paid advertorials and barely-massaged press releases. El Reg was (and is) a source you could trust to print the true stuff that someone didn’t want printed (aka “news”). I don’t know whether they were the first to report on the FDIV bug, for example, but that’s the kind of thing they’d be more likely to do than ComputerWorld.
Several of my favourite journalists got their big breaks at El Reg, including Andrew Orlowski and Ashlee Vance (recent book and doco on SpaceLab and other “newspace” companies, bio of Musk 10 years ago etc).
Go down that road and you’ll pretty quickly get to Steve Jobs and Elon Musk and Clive Sinclair being off topic.
Yes, and…?
They’re entrepreneurs and business people and salesmen and hype men, and there are plenty of sites (like the orange site) that cater to that quite well–we need not waste space on them here.
RIP. The Reg was foundational to UK IT reporting.
Still is, IMHO, but I am biased.
Sorry for your loss @lproven.
Thank you. I did not know Mageek that well but he gave me my first break into online journalism – it wasn’t an easy or automatic transition from print by any means. I wrote for his site, the Inquirer, for years.
Sadly it’s gone now, though archived. I saved a couple of my stories, e.g.
https://liam-on-linux.livejournal.com/69701.html
Not to speak ill of the dead, but this person was important not in tech, but in reporting on tech. It’s no more fitting here than an obituary for Crazy Eddy–who sold a lot of technology but did not create much technology–would be.
We should be careful about normalizing submissions around second and third order submissions on the industry, because that very quickly spirals into spam and loss of coherence.
Go down that road and you’ll pretty quickly get to Steve Jobs and Elon Musk and Clive Sinclair being off topic.
Magee & Lettice were pioneers in tech reporting being something other than paid advertorials and barely-massaged press releases. El Reg was (and is) a source you could trust to print the true stuff that someone didn’t want printed (aka “news”). I don’t know whether they were the first to report on the FDIV bug, for example, but that’s the kind of thing they’d be more likely to do than ComputerWorld.
Several of my favourite journalists got their big breaks at El Reg, including Andrew Orlowski and Ashlee Vance (recent book and doco on SpaceLab and other “newspace” companies, bio of Musk 10 years ago etc).
Yes, and…?
They’re entrepreneurs and business people and salesmen and hype men, and there are plenty of sites (like the orange site) that cater to that quite well–we need not waste space on them here.
The probe in The Mote in God’s Eye by Niven and Pournelle?
Not quite.
(I misspelled it, mea culpa.)
Aha! This is a specific regional/local reference that I (and I suspect the wider world) was not really aware of.