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Sunday, July 1. 2007
My notes from the Dealing with the Press. send in articles, 80 pounds a page press release every 3 months, a page, status updates. The Novell/Red Hat's do this. short, but with content. they rewrite anyways, don't worry about wording too much. don't assume prior knowledge screenshots people love new features (we got this!) gossip ? politics, forks, competitors Their readership are 40-50 year old IT managers who don't have time to read Slashdot. In other words, there is still a good reason for printed media and it reaches a different audience then what we have currently over the Internet. Amarok has a ?very strong image?... it made me blush a bit.  suggests people adopt a project... hooray we got Rokymotion  prepared interviews and photos (of developers) I asked about whether notifying editors, giving them the ?Digg treatment? for every release would lead to fatigue. He said to just go ahead and like CC: him and other editors, it wouldn't matter. Basically the idea is that magazines are on short deadlines and really need content, we just have to be there to give it to them.
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