Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!columbia!rutgers!sunybcs!bingvaxu!leah!uwmcsd1!lakesys!gryphon!jdow From: jdow@gryphon.CTS.COM (Joanne Dow) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Technical excellence in publishing (or a lack thereof) Message-ID: <1375@gryphon.CTS.COM> Date: Mon, 31-Aug-87 13:02:23 EDT Article-I.D.: gryphon.1375 Posted: Mon Aug 31 13:02:23 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 5-Sep-87 01:20:05 EDT References: <13323@amdahl.amdahl.com> Reply-To: jdow@gryphon.CTS.COM (Joanne Dow) Organization: Wizardess Designs Lines: 43 Keywords: BYTE BIX Dr. Dobb's lack of coverage Days of Future Passed In article <13323@amdahl.amdahl.com> kim@amdahl.amdahl.com (Kim DeVaughn) writes: > >[ For all you do ... this line's for you ... ] > >I just picked up the new (September) issue of BYTE Magazine, and was very >disappointed to see that they've dropped the Amiga (and ST) coverage from >their "Best of BIX" area. > >Not that I ever really got much out of the section in the first place, but >I saw the recognition (by BYTE) as a positive thing. Alas, Kim, you have witnessed the demise of Best of BIX published as a part of BYTE magazine. ( IMHO this notone of their smartest moves; but, their rather rigidly maintained ratio of editorial material to advertisements has dictated chopping some articles as the number of ads drops. (If you know any vendors who can afford BYTE ads encourage it perhaps?)) Charlie Heath and I have been doing the extracts of recent months. We are still doing extracts - on the 15th of each month. There willbe some sort of supplemental package to accompany BYTE that contains these BoB extracts. I believe they're talking over 32 pages of stuff related to one major topic. Anyway - don't look for more BoB in BYTE. (In a sense it was an ad for BIX. The IBM and Mac areas are (relatively) small fish compared to the Amiga area there. (Yes, you do hear pride in my voice. It's work; but, it's lots of fun making those Amiga conferences interesting enough that outside the listings area we're the biggest bix has last I heard.) Hence, why "advertise" the Amiga conferences? (There are three public and one private conferences with Amiga leading their names. There are MANY well supported vendor support conferences as well. Both Jim Goodnow and John Meissen/John Toebes of Aztec and lattice C's are there very regularly.) Oops - this is sounding like an ad. better stop before I get folks mad! -- <@_@> BIX:jdow INTERNET:jdow@gryphon.CTS.COM UUCP:{akgua, hplabs!hp-sdd, sdcsvax, ihnp4, nosc}!crash!gryphon!jdow Remember - A bird in the hand often leaves a sticky deposit. Perhaps it was better you left it in the bush with the other one.