[IP] The interesting times in which we live

[Dave Farber <dave@farber.net>]

Well worth looking at and watching djf


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From: AcmeWriter@aol.com
Date: Wed, 02 Jul 2003 00:34:11 -0400 (EDT)
To: dave@farber.net
Subject: The interesting times in which we live

Dave -

Don't know if this is IP worthy or just something that might interest you,
but eight unemployed former high-tech journalists (including myself) have
created a Web site that plays with the idea of reality programming and tries
to make 
it meaningful.

It's called 8goodpeople.com, and we eight  - including a Pulitzer Prize
winner, the woman who was the first news editor of CNET,  a former National
Geographc staffer  - are using the reality programming genre to try to

get the attention of prospective employers by writing about what life has
been like without a steady paycheck.  We like to think of it as reality
programming without the TV and the shlock factor.

I don't know if our experiment will work or not - that is, if we will find
jobs because of the site; but we felt it was a creative use of our talents
and 
therefore worth the time. Though we've only been live for a few days, we've
already heard from other unemployed high-tech workers who want to be on our
"second season." We don't have one planned, but it really is a sad
commentary on 
the state of unemployment in this country and how many high-tech workers,
journalists among them, have not been able to find work.

I hope you can take the time to check it out.

Thanks,
Connie Guglielmo
site creator, 8goodpeople.com


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