<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">On 5 Nov 2019, at 16:13, Howard M. Cohen <<a href="mailto:hmc@hmcwritenow.com" class="">hmc@hmcwritenow.com</a>> wrote:</div><div class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">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 class=""></div><div class="">The original post was about tech *journalism*. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">On your website (<a href="http://hmcwritenow.com/" class="">http://hmcwritenow.com/</a>), these are the clients I see from the last month, and their apparent category:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">* Channel Mechanics (vendor)</div><div class="">* Redmond Channel Partner (publication)</div><div class="">* MDSL (vendor)</div><div class="">* New Horizons Computer Learning Centers (vendor)</div><div class="">* New Horizons Career Development (vendor)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">That's 1 journalism client out offor 5, 2 portfolio pieces out of 12.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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 class="">
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