About Mac Slocum
So you want to know a little about me ...I've worked as an online journalist, producer and editor at all sorts of Web sites (news, entertainment, tech, you name it). I have a bachelor's and a master's in journalism. I teach Web journalism courses at Emerson College and I'm a contributor on Poynter's E-Media Tidbits blog. I also run a number of independent Web sites and I'm owner of The Fodder Network. I hand-code my Web sites and I write and edit in a stripped-down text editor (just say no to Word!). I'm not sure if this stuff is impressive or not, but I just used "I" in this paragraph 11 times so I (12!) feel pretty good about myself.
At various points in my career I've tried to disconnect from the Web world, but I always come back. I've since concluded that I'm meant to do this stuff.
My main area of professional interest is independent Web publishing, which I consider a far broader category than mere blogging. I became fascinated by the Web upon first logging into my college's antiquated VAX system. From the beginning, the Web always made sense to me. It's a revolutionary communications medium that puts enormous power in the hands of anyone with the time and inclination to publish a Web page. Seriously -- how cool is that?
Sadly, these few paragraphs do an adequate job of summing up my existence. With that I'll shut up and let you get on with it.
-- Mac (mac@theindependentpublisher.com)
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