From December 2004 till January 2007, I cut my teeth as a technology writer and pseudo-blogger at java.about.com. Thanks go to Avram Piltch, About.com editor-in-chief, for giving me the opportunity to write a lot of claptrap that occasionally revealed something insightful or useful. (The check every month didn't hurt.)
So why did I give up a paying gig editing a site with nearly 500K page views a month? About.com is stuck in the Web 1.0 world and there was no light at the end of the tunnel that I could see. With some 500 content sites and even more editors pushing out content, it is a publishing behemoth that doesn't alter course often.
So, I look forward to the freedom this venue will give me to publish my ideas, heterodoxy and all.
