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Julie Balise blogs at the San Francisco Gate:
Macworld executive editor Dan Miller tweeted on Wednesday that the magazine's print edition is "going away," but its website will continue with a "reduced editorial staff."
Miller said he will remain with the company for a month to help with the transition.
Jason Snell, editorial director for Macworld, also announced his departure via Twitter:
A personal announcement: I'm leaving Macworld after 17 years. http://t.co/gozwnjN0z5
--- Jason Snell (@jsnell) September 10, 2014On his personal website, Snell wrote that his time with Macworld was "a great ride."
"Unfortunately, many of my colleagues lost their jobs today," he wrote. "If there's anything I can do to help them, I will. I have had time to plan for this day, but they haven't. You probably know some of them. Please join with me in giving them sympathy and support."
The San Francisco-based magazine was launched in 1984, the same year Apple introduced the Macintosh.
The cuts were part of a major reorganization at IDG Communications, according to Folio Magazine. A new U.S. Media group was created. The company did not tell Folio Magazine how many employees were let go.
The Boston Globe's report notes that November's will be the last dead-tree issue and that Boston-based International Data Group has previously gone through similar moves with their other properties, Computerworld and PCWorld.
(Score: 2) by WizardFusion on Wednesday September 17 2014, @02:32PM
Excellent, not just me then. I agree with everything you just posted above.
Adblock was non-existent back in the early days, because it wasn't needed - now the whole world seems to be about making money quickly and screwing customers just for the short term gains.
(Score: 2) by Hairyfeet on Wednesday September 17 2014, @06:30PM
I was literally there at the beginning, with a 286 running Netscape fricking 1 and ya know what? All through the 90s the thought honestly never even crossed my mind to block a single ad because they weren't giant assholes about it with ads being simple txt, jpg, or if they wanted to be REALLY fancy a tiny GIF link.
Now I can take a PC and infect it in less than an hour doing NOTHING but surfing random pages without adblocking, it never fails they will get some sort of malware thanks to drive bys embedded in flash ads. And God fucking forbid you have Java installed (Thanks Notch you rich douche for bringing back THAT ass cancer with minecraft!) because if you think they'll pwn your ass with Flash just try surfing with the Java browser applet installed and see how quick some malware makes you its bitch!
So yeah I have EVERY right to be pissed, because you see I build beautiful systems, perfect little whirring purring pieces of metal and plastic and blinkenlights that before these Masters of Being Assholes came along frankly didn't even need antivirus to be secure, just a bit of common sense was all you needed. Now I have waste MY time running tests every 3 months to find which free AV has the best protection with the lowest footprint so it won't slow down my HTPCs during critical operations (if you are curious as to the result? Comodo IS Free is currently #1, Followed by Avast and Avir with AVG dead last) all because some greedy shitbag looks at the people that dare go to their site as chickens to be plucked! And I'm for bitchslapping the living fuck out of these asswipes when they try to blame the victim, just as I did a few years back when Jim Sterling at The Escapist tried to blame adblock users for the way things are and I retorted with a list of how much fucking malware his douchebag site had served up the past year! I asked him "Is your site gonna pay for those cleanups Mr Sterling? Are you personally gonna pay to have their bank accounts monitored and for their time cleaning up the messes YOU made sir?". Needless to say they erased that post but not before a good 30 guys had picked up the flag and kept asking the same questions and posting the same malware stats, made my little black heart grow three sizes that day it did!
And the bitch is I'm in retail so I KNOW what the results of this douchebaggery are! Did you know the other shops didn't install ABP, most didn't even install an AV when they cleaned a PC? Know why? Because "Heh heh heh it'll let 'em get infected quicker and I'll get more repeat business!"...know where they are now? OUT OF BUSINESS because people got tired of being fucked over! Meanwhile I got people paying me a fricking c-note just to hook up their fricking speakers to their TV because "I know if HE does it it'll be done RIGHT and will fricking WORK!". I end up with their families, their bosses, their friends, simply because I won't fuck them over and am happy to sit down with them and show them how to get their systems to do what THEY want it to do! Hell I'm currently scheduled to do a huge networking job on a doctor's building, know why? Because when one of the doctor's couldn't get his email to connect I got on the horn with the ISP and refused to get off until his fricking email worked!
If you treat your customers with respect and actually give a shit about their experience? Then they will go out of their way to bring you business and support you, do like these mags and sites and treat your customers as Rubes just waiting to be fleeced? Well don't be surprised when they abandon you at the first opportunity because YOU ARE A DOUCHEBAG and deserve it! And sorry if that came off a little ranty but this whole "corporate blames the users" bullshit for not being willing to suck their dick and put up with their asshattery REALLY pisses me off!
ACs are never seen so don't bother. Always ready to show SJWs for the racists they are.