He's been around a long time and given the amount of time people
spend discussing what he says, he's very successful. I have a great
deal more sympathy since I began the magazine writing myself - being
paid to stick your neck out in a circus full of geeks is an
entertaining and sometimes nervous way to make a living. Good luck to
him - at least he's rarely boring.
AndrewF
On 02/03/2006, at 6:57 AM, Bill Pearce wrote:
>
> There's a lesson for aspiring writers here. This guy has a
> knowledge base,
> which some see as adequate, others see as sadly lacking, but allows
> him to
> be at least dangerous on many computer related topics. He also has
> a bit of
> business acumen, which could be aquired from careful reading of a
> few books
> and some magazines. Add this to a nature of having strong opinions
> and a
> willingness to share them in a public forum, and you have the
> makings of a
> successful columnist. How much he makes off this column is not
> known, so he
> either has a day job and this is nice,easy cream, or he has a
> journalism
> background and performs other tasks at the magazine. Either way,
> he's not
> starving. What the world needs is a rating system for guys like
> this (and TV
> weathermen, too), based on a look backward at his predictions.
>
> That said, I can't entirely dissagree with his list of points,
> although we
> could all massage his point allocations. For those of us that
> really know
> something about photography, the point scale won't mean a thing,
> but I do
> like my local liquor stores that apply shelf tags that indicate
> magazine
> scores of 85 and up. For those who know as much about cameras as I
> do about
> wine, it might help.
>
> On the other hand, Consumer's Reports makes a fine example of how
> this can
> all go to hell in an instant.
>
> I did go to his column predicting Apple abandoning their OS and
> going to
> Windows. I wish a certain Pacific NW list member were still here to
> vent at
> length about that!
>
> Bill Pearce
>
>
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