In Simon's Blog, Robi wrote: "All of the new editors will have specific obligations including generation of content. I thinks its worth noting though that all the people that Simon has selected have been know for writing and should have no trouble generating and bringing in new and exciting content. Many of them are already contributors of note to CFDJ."
I have gotten a few requests to write for them, but since they stopped paying and its just "have your name out there and we retain all rights to your article", I stopped. I expect that this is a way to continue to generate articles on a continual basis for them. They need more articles, but frankly I'm not very supportive of a company that wants to benefit from my work without some benefit for me (and having people read me in CFDJ is not enough of a benefit). It will be interesting to see how and where this goes. I wish them all luck. Sandra Clark ============================== http://www.shayna.com Training in Cascading Style Sheets and Accessibility CSS HANDS ON New York City, October 10-13, 2006. http://www.shayna.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=training.syllabus_display&id=1 Read an interview regarding my CSS Hands on Class at http://www.shayna.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.display_entry&id=140 -----Original Message----- From: Michael Dinowitz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 21, 2006 1:29 PM To: CF-Community Subject: Re: CFDJ editorial board Like the company or not, the very existence of CFDJ is a good thing and I would not want it to go away. I just think it needs better management and pissing off past, present and potentially future authors and subscribers just isn't the way to go. Maybe they're actually giving Simon some power now. Maybe the FAQU is a wakeup call to them. I just hope its a change for the good even though they pissed me (and you and others) off. >I think you're better off not having your name associated with that >publishing company anyway. They can't figure out how to send the >magazines to their paying subscribers and instead send multiple, >unwanted copies of JDJ to people who couldn't care less and didn't pay >for it, nor would they. > Like myself. > > - Matt > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Michael Dinowitz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "CF-Community" <[email protected]> > Sent: Monday, August 21, 2006 1:12 PM > Subject: CFDJ editorial board > > >> I've been seeing posts about this and I'm actually a bit upset. I >> can't post this to blog of fusion as I'm trying to keep that to >> technical content only. >> >> Basically, I was asked years ago to be on their editorial board and >> if you open up an issue you'll see my name listed. They've used me a >> few times to review content but that was it. They've asked me time >> and again to write for them with the "we don't pay but it'll get your >> name out there" speech (hi, Michael Dinowitz here). I guess my >> refusal to write more than a few articles caused them to drop me from >> the board without even a word. I'm rather unhappy with them. I'm not >> blaming Simon but CFDJ is just pissing me off more and more over >> time. >> >> Now that I've vented, I wish the new editorial board good luck. >> >> Michael Dinowitz >> President: House of Fusion >> http://www.houseoffusion.com >> Publisher: Fusion Authority >> http://www.fusionauthority.com >> Adobe Community Expert >> >> > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:213743 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
