taylor@limbo.Intuitive.Com (Dave Taylor) (01/09/90)
Aubrey McAuley, editor of 'HP/Apollo Workstation Magazine', and I invite
you to apply for the new position of "Customer Feedback Columnist" for
the magazine. Our goal with the column is to allow someone from the net
to summarize each month the hot discussions that have taken place in
"comp.sys.hp" and "comp.sys.apollo", either in brief form, or by
focusing in on a specific topic or two.
In return for you doing this you'll get the following benefits; first
off we'll PAY YOU MONEY to do this (amount being negotiable), you'll
be added to the masthead as a "contributor" to the magazine, and most
of all, you'll have a column each month in one of the top specific
vendor oriented workstation oriented journals in the industry.
For hopefully obvious reasons, we'd prefer not to have someone from
either HP or Apollo doing this work, since what we're really looking
for is someone that can summarize what's going on without belittling
the argument either side presents, or discounting due to lack of
volume, etc etc.
If you would like to hear more about this opportunity, please drop
me a note. Include, if you can, why you're qualified to follow both
the HP and Apollo groups and how you'd decide to cull out the stuff
worth writing from that which whould pass into netnews limbo...
Alternatively, if you're interested in just covering one area, rather
than both, drop me a note about that too; include why you feel it
makes more sense to take that approach and why you in particular
are qualified to take on the assignment. [note: if we take this
option, you'd only be responsible for a column every two months,
which also brings up the interesting question of how to summarize
two months worth of netnews in ~800 words... ideas? ]
Thanks for participating and I look forward to hearing from you!
-- Dave Taylor
Intuitive Systems Unix Editor
Mountain View, California [HP/Apollo] Workstation Magazine
[Note for those anxious about the sanctity of their words here on
the net: we hope that the person who accepts this assignment will
understand that they are summarizing discussions, not quoting or
citing particular authors, per se. In cases where an individual
appears to have hit the nail on the head, however, we hope that
the writer will obtain appropriate permission from the author
to be quoted in the magazine. If you think this is still inap-
propriate, please do drop me a note about it! -- Dave]
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