<div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div>Have to agree, writing for a vendor makes you .... drumroll please ... a writer. Not a tech journalist. </div><div><br>There is some gray area. If, for example, you had something like Robert Scoble once had at Rackspace where he apparently had free reign to write about anyone he wanted, you could make an argument that was journalism, though it's not like he ever did anything investigative. I would tend to still position him as a writer / story teller.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Nov 5, 2019 at 2:15 PM Tom Geller via Ipg-smz <<a href="mailto:ipg-smz@netpress.org">ipg-smz@netpress.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div>On 5 Nov 2019, at 16:13, Howard M. Cohen <<a href="mailto:hmc@hmcwritenow.com" target="_blank">hmc@hmcwritenow.com</a>> wrote:</div><div><br><blockquote type="cite">To your last snarky comment I can only say that I am a full-time freelancer for ten years following thirty in the IT channel.</blockquote><br></div><div>The original post was about tech *journalism*. </div><div><br></div><div>On your website (<a href="http://hmcwritenow.com/" target="_blank">http://hmcwritenow.com/</a>), these are the clients I see from the last month, and their apparent category:</div><div><br></div><div>* Channel Mechanics (vendor)</div><div>* Redmond Channel Partner (publication)</div><div>* MDSL (vendor)</div><div>* New Horizons Computer Learning Centers (vendor)</div><div>* New Horizons Career Development (vendor)</div><div><br></div><div>That's 1 journalism client out offor 5, 2 portfolio pieces out of 12.</div><div><br></div><div>I'm not arguing that one can't have a full and rich life writing for vendors. But your current career, no matter how wonderful it may be, is no counterexample to the idea that David Needle is "one of the last tech journalists".</div><div>
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