Thanks for the response. I'm happy to see my message was received (although it seems obvious from your response that one person's tunnelvision is another's BS meter).
RE my "animus": I'm not sure that even the hardest-core minimalist could argue that not updating a blog represents a triumph of "attention" over the "page-view model."
And by responding only to the peripheral personnel issue, you neatly sidestepped my primary contention: We didn't burn out on you based on page views, we burned out on you because you weren't actually posting much of anything! I could pay a high-school kid or my mom or a fire hydrant not to post -- and pay them a lot less than we were shelling out to you based (ironically or not) on your past tech bona fides working for the mainstream media you affect to disdain.
Dan Farber (another tech-press vet who I happen to regard as a mentor myself) has obviously achieved some sort of modus vivendi with you that actually involved you producing work for pay. My congratulations to both of you for achieving that balance for as long as it lasted! I'm sorry we couldn't work such an arrangement out on our site, but it's simply tacky to try to shift that blame to a third party who was trying to do his job.
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