Newsweak 1995: Lacking editors, reviewers or critics, the Internet has become a wasteland of unfiltered data.Since data is useless without some smart journalist to tell us what it means, Newsweak (misspelling intentional) was sure it would soon join the pet rock on the ash heap of history. But 15 years later, it’s the internet that’s thriving while Newsweak gets punted from one owner to another like a cheap Christmas fruitcake. The predictions of self-styled elitists are always good for a laugh… but nothing else.
Author: Bonfire of the Absurdities
After 35 year career writing software for IBM mainframes, am now self-employed contractor thinking of joining a union and striking for higher wages. Cured morbid fear of heights when I learned to look at them as lengths standing on end. Uncompromising in refusal to accept browser cookies. Amateur investor who has accumulated a small fortune in the market after starting out years ago with a large one. For recreation, I run, hike, kayak and play tennis but will not consider synchronized swimming under any circumstances.
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