from the blatant-self-promotion dept
As a few of you may have seen, this previous weekend, the NY Times ran an extremely good profile about me, composed by Kashmir Hill. There’s very little to state about it, besides it was an intriguing (if rather awkward-feeling) experience to be the topic of a story, instead of the reporter covering it. However Hill is an exceptional press reporter and talked to a lot of various folks for the profile (consisting of one who kindly called me in a panic to signal me that the NY Times was “smelling around” for what they feared was a hit piece).
” Whenever tech policy news breaks I constantly wish to see what Mike’s take is going to be,” stated Senator Ron Wyden, Democrat of Oregon, in a declaration. Mark Zuckerberg, the head of Meta, has actually called him “informative and sensible.” The tech business owner Anil Dash stated he “appears and ships every day” and has actually been “filing continuously for years on a beat that is thankless.”
Anyhow, I believed routine Techdirt readers may take pleasure in reading it. I’ll simply keep in mind a couple of bits that I discovered entertaining. Initially, I’m going to use this description at any time anybody asks me what I provide for a living, because I have actually constantly had problem with that concern:
The very best method to explain how he earns a living is as an intellectual gig employee, equivalent parts entrepreneur, tech reporter, policy expert, research study fellow and video game designer.
This description is likewise enjoyable and would go on my company cards if I still had them:
” an outsider whom experts check out …”
Lastly, Hill (carefully) buffoons Techdirt’s style:
What Mr. Masnick obviously hasn’t had time for is a redesign of his blog site. A wall of text, heavy on links, it has actually not progressed much because its starting.
Which … reasonable adequate. Some day, possibly, we’ll upgrade the website to make it a bit more modern-day, though it would assist if business and policy makers simply stopped doing so much dumb things for simply a bit to let us capture our breath. (However likewise, whenever we point out upgrading the website, we get remarks from individuals scared that we’re going to damage it and remove the blog site format– that’s not likely to occur. We like the old-fashioned blog site setup, and modifications would be more about enhancing the website and updating it around the edges, instead of the whole principle– and have no worry: we will not fill every page with unneeded images or pivot to video or anything like that).
Anyhow, if you had not yet seen it, figured we ‘d share it here
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