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I’ve moved to a new home, and hope you will come with me
October 23rd, 2012 // 24 Comments
Filed: Tech
Just a heads up that I’m starting a new job as editor-in-chief of ReadWrite, a tech site formerly known as ReadWriteWeb. We have rebranded the site as ReadWrite and launched it yesterday with a new design and a new approach to covering tech news. Meaning: more personality, more engagement, more fun.
This is not going to be Fake Steve 2.0 because, alas, Fake Steve has left the building. But it will give me a place where I can write the kind of stuff I want to write, with loads of freedom and with a small group of like-minded souls. ReadWrite has a really good staff of writers, and we’re going to be adding more voices to the mix. I’m looking for interesting, thought-provoking ideas, so send them along.
My idea is that journalism needs to become more about conversation than publication. As Arianna Huffington likes to say (in her strange accent) “Self-expression is the new entertainment.” So look — come along with me on this adventure and express yourselves. Become part of ReadWrite. Add your voice to the conversation.
For those of you who are still hanging around from the Fake Steve days, first of all, Namaste, and second of all, Let’s put the band back together. We have a platform where we can do some of the things we did on Fake Steve, like create a sense of community and add a touch of irreverence to the world of tech. Now more than ever the Valley is in need of a bracing, no-bullshit shot of truth, and we are the ones to deliver it. Especially now that Michael Arrington and MG Siegler, the herpes of tech journalism (they keep going away and coming back) are now returning to TechCrunch, which is going to raise the bullshit barrage and general douchebaggery of tech coverage.
As for me, I’ve been cooped up in dying newsweekly for the last four years, and I’ve been miserable. But now I feel like I’ve been sprung from prison and given permission to wreak havoc on an unsuspecting world. I can’t wait. I hope you’ll come along and have some fun.
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Putting the band back together, eh?
You know where to find me.
Namaste.
If you want us to come along it would be smart to supply a RSS link. Because that’s the way I, and probably a lot of other people, have followed Fake Steve and this.
Instead we get a static link to the new site – and it’s broken.
“The herpes of tech journalism”?
Good to see you back, in fine form, as always.
Where/how can we send your crew tips?
well that explains it. I kept putting ointment on my screen, yet arrington and siegler keep coming back.
I look forward to a long and amusing feud between you. ping me if you are looking for freelance tech journos to add to the RW mix.
cheers
dt
twitter: @tynanwrites
I don’t see any link at all to the site, so, even more awesomer.
I am sytill here on the avocado infested Ashram on the Hill, waiing for enlightenment from Ganeesh the Capricious and Mirthful.
et the good times roll.
I bow to you.
Anon on the Ashram
Get the band back together? Hmmmm …. are you sure you wanna let this monster back outta the box?
Great news – congrats!
So glad to have you back in earnest, Dan! Nice to have a voice that doesn’t seem a) consumed with the joy of hearing itself speak and b) isn’t simply bleating the Valley’s mantra.
Strange to you, perhaps. But to anyone with a bit of travel, it’s a Hungarian or Magyar accent.
Link(s) please (btw- we really, really shouldn’t have to remind a tech journalist about this).
congrats, dude! i look forward to seeing what you’ll do with it — no doubt it will be ridiculously funny fun.
And just why would anyone with a bit of travel think that a Greek person has a Hungarian accent?
The Internet needs you as it needs a bucket smelly, molassy sh**.
OMG, now I’ll have to unsubscribe from RWW. Man, I liked that site. Why don’t you just stay in your current dumpster instead of soiling other, perfectly good places? Your hateful, non-objective prose is not welcome on the web.
You are a biased LIAR. Shame on you with your hands folded like you pray. You are a despicable hypocrite.
From Fake Steve Jobs to Fake Henry Blodget. How far you’ve come…
“Now more than ever the Valley is in need of a bracing, no-bullshit shot of truth, and we are the ones to deliver it.”
Based on your reputation, I think you meant:
“Now more than ever the Valley is in need of a bracing, no-truth shot of Bullshit, and we are the ones to deliver it.”
{plugs base into marshall stax amp and begins tuning…}
whoops. meant —> “bass.” damn auto correct. yeah. sure. that’s what it was. ahem. auto correct. {cough}
Dude, you are so full of shit. Lrn2Science.
Hmm, where the link?
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