Arnold Kim, the man behind MacRumors.com, is a madman: he’s given up a perfectly good career as a physician to work full time on a Mac blog. Which apparently merits a profile in the New York Times. Does this count as selling out?
MacRumors does good work—don’t get me wrong; I’ve got nothing but respect for Dr. Kim—totally. But come on: just because he’s a doctor? Look, I’ve got the story of a real blogging hero for you. A guy who graduated with an English degree, then toiled for two and a half years in a soulless IT/web-dev job before abandoning its creature comforts to write on a freelance basis, pulling himself up by his digital bootlaces into working for the premiere Mac news source around.
I forget the guy’s name, but man, he is good. I mean, he’s no doctor anything, but that doesn’t mean he’s not worth the time. I’m sure he wouldn’t mind if you’d like to write an article about him. Or option some movie rights.
Anyway, welcome to fulltime blogging, Arn.
Wow. This 'internet' thing is really catching on!
Yeah, I remember him. Went to Cornell, I think, and kept on blogging even after a serious Ultimate injury. Inspiring.
I like that other guy too. Even if he does stubbornly refuse to correctly place his modifiers :) English major, hah!
You know Dan Moren, one would think that you would have nothing but praise for your colleague or fellow Mac journalist.
I visit MacRumors daily and this is just fantastic news that the guy behind it is being featured in N.Y. Times.
It seems to me that your article is a classic case of journalistic jealousy. Why not get over it and except the fact that he and MacRumors were chosen to be featured at N.Y. Times and you and MacUser were not?
@Call Me Yo Daddy: Indeed, I did praise Arn in my piece and as I said, he does fantastic work over at MacRumors-I'm glad to hear he's turned it into a full time gig. I also think he would oblige us a little spot of gentle humor.
Besides, the day that the New York Times decides to feature MacUser in its pages is probably the day that I stop reading the New York TImes. I mean, seriously: they've got better things to write about, no?
Oh, they have the internet on computers now.
I guess the reason isnt much about his career but his traffic. They write many articles about famous sites -high ranking sites-.
Hey Dan,
I quite enjoyed the article.
arn