On Mon, 15 Aug 2005, Bruce Byfield wrote:
[snip]
That means learning what makes a good story, and making sure that people
like me hear about it.
Strife. That's what the mainstream seems to tune into. Take the WWF
(wrestling) style face off with HD DVD (uses MPEG-2, MPEG-4 AVC, VC-1
compression) versus Blu-Ray (uses MPEG-2, MPEG-4 AVC, VC-1 compression).
OOo could shape something like that. Focus on the strife and discord
threatening to tear up the project over which is most important: that OOo
is open source or that OOo uses open file formats like OpenDocument. You
know the old "floor wax" vs "desert topping" style debate. ;)
[snip]
In the last 18 months, I've earned a fair chunk of income from writing
about OpenOffice.org, but every one of the four or five dozen articles
I've written about OOo has been initiated by me.
[snip]
I've read most of them, even before they are announced here, they are
quite good and I find them useful enough to forward to people I know.
Writing consistently well is difficult.
-Lars
Lars Nooden ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Software patents harm all Net-based business, write your MEP:
http://wwwdb.europarl.eu.int/ep6/owa/p_meps2.repartition?ilg=EN
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