Comments on: Discovery to pay $250 million for HowStuffWorks.com with video focus http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20071015/4862/ Technology, music, video, art, news, reviews and muse on the web Thu, 21 Aug 2008 20:28:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2 By: Dave C. http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20071015/4862/#comment-643628 Dave C. Mon, 15 Oct 2007 19:33:27 +0000 http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20071015/4862/#comment-643628 It's actually been a while since Marshall was the main writer. He was in the early days, but it's gone through lots of phases. Tom Harris wrote a great deal of the content for a good long while after Marshall, and some of the best "classic HSW" articles on the site in my opinion. And then for a period there were 3 or 4 staff writers, a stable of freelancers, and a few editors. Someone who works there now could answer better what their approach is today. Glad to see another reCaptcha user, btw. I love that thing. It’s actually been a while since Marshall was the main writer. He was in the early days, but it’s gone through lots of phases. Tom Harris wrote a great deal of the content for a good long while after Marshall, and some of the best “classic HSW” articles on the site in my opinion. And then for a period there were 3 or 4 staff writers, a stable of freelancers, and a few editors. Someone who works there now could answer better what their approach is today.

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]]> By: TDavid http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20071015/4862/#comment-643623 TDavid Mon, 15 Oct 2007 18:32:02 +0000 http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20071015/4862/#comment-643623 Thank you for stopping by and leaving a comment, Dave C. That's interesting that you used to work for HSW. How big was their staff at the time? How big is it now? I was under the impression it was Marshall Brain writing most of the stuff there but it seems they grew well past that into sort of a group blog like atmosphere? Thank you for stopping by and leaving a comment, Dave C. That’s interesting that you used to work for HSW. How big was their staff at the time? How big is it now? I was under the impression it was Marshall Brain writing most of the stuff there but it seems they grew well past that into sort of a group blog like atmosphere?

]]> By: Dave C. http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20071015/4862/#comment-643612 Dave C. Mon, 15 Oct 2007 16:34:15 +0000 http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20071015/4862/#comment-643612 I agree on both counts -- yay for HSW, and that the video angle is an odd match. Not just that Discovery needs to make their stuff more portable, HSW does too. It's not HSW's strong suit, nor is the social web which is what you'd think Discovery would be in the market for. More on HSW's trajectory in the past couple of years over [see signature] I agree on both counts — yay for HSW, and that the video angle is an odd match. Not just that Discovery needs to make their stuff more portable, HSW does too. It’s not HSW’s strong suit, nor is the social web which is what you’d think Discovery would be in the market for. More on HSW’s trajectory in the past couple of years over [see signature]

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