Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site unc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxb!mhuxn!mhuxm!mhuxj!houxm!whuxlm!akgua!mcnc!unc!sherouse From: sherouse@unc.UUCP (George W. Sherouse) Newsgroups: net.micro,net.mag Subject: Re: Infoworld Message-ID: <130@unc.UUCP> Date: Tue, 29-Jan-85 08:29:03 EST Article-I.D.: unc.130 Posted: Tue Jan 29 08:29:03 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 2-Feb-85 10:54:29 EST References: <254@water.UUCP> Reply-To: sherouse@unc.UUCP (George W. Sherouse) Distribution: net Organization: CS Dept., U. of N. Carolina at Chapel Hill Lines: 35 Xref: watmath net.micro:9234 net.mag:116 Summary: In article eve@ssc-bee.UUCP (Michael Eve) writes: > >I have noticed that Infoworld is getting smaller month by month. I personnally >find the magazine considerably less interesting than back in its newspaper >format days, and have been thinking about cancelling as I suspect many others >have. Or it may be just a lack of advertisers forcing smaller issues. The problem, Mike, is that they don't want us anymore. I started my InfoWorld subscription many moons ago (remember Minny Floppy?) because of a solicitation from them that asked questions like "Were you the first one on your block to own a calculator?" the upshot of which was to say "We are a resource *AND ENTERTAINMENT* for the techno-tinkerer." I was wildly happy with what I got as well, until... How can I put this? Until IBM turned microcomputing into a business. In the intervening years InfoWorld has become just plain boring and stuffy. All the fun is gone. A similar affliction has beset Byte. I, like you, am seriously considering letting my InfoWorld subscription lapse. Byte is not far behind. One ironic note which has given me much pleasure is that InfoWorld started offering a baseball jersey with the InfoWorld logo about the time it went glossy. Clearly the editorial target is John Q. Middlemanager. Can you see John Q. in an InfoWorld jersey hanging out at the local hackers' union hall? Anyway, Mike, I suspect that InfoWorld is doing just fine and will continue to do so without us. A recent editorial said as much. But, golly, it is a shame. << The views expressed are my own and are thus indistinguishable from >> << absolute truth. >> George W. Sherouse