lol, hey guys...
First off, no not fired. I am still here, still Editor in Chief and that is not changing anytime soon.
Promise (or I guess I'm making a threat, if you do not like me, lol) If anything, things are getting much better.
Second, I actually have written quite a few of the biggest stories for the site in the last few days, including a mini-review of the BLU Win JR with a 13 minute video and a dozen high res photos. Articles like that take
hours to do, they're not trivial. You can see the recent list below:
Third, as alluded to above, yes, yeah over the weekend I did take some downtime. Flying to NYC then to Berlin and back again with three days while covering an event is
exhausting. Live blogging itself is a tiring and technical act (DSLR connected to PC to auto import photos into Lightroom, downsize, watermark, insert) plus typing.
Fact is, as the EiC of this site, I often write too much. My job should be more about delegating work to the staff, planning, emailing people, arranging things, getting embargos set up, and tackling the big stories/editorials/reviews. Often, I am so overwhelmed even with daily news, I fall behind on much of that. With John Callaham on our news team now, and Rich Edmonds in the early AM, it is helping tremendously. You may notice that I often do the final editing of titles and even still supply many of the lede photos you see for the articles posted aka behind the scenes work.
I put a lot of time into this site, often too much (though it is worth it and it has paid off in site traffic). For two years, I used to do this while also being a full-time sleep technician in NYC. Now things are better, but I still "punch in" 10 AM to 6 PM ET every day, often working later (which is why I post sometimes at 1 AM if a story breaks).
Hope that explains some things! I have not had a vacation since 2007, so sometimes you may see me drop off for awhile as that is as close as I can get

Although this is a dream job, it is still work, and you can burn out from time to time. Plus, since I moved to MA a six months ago, I have my closest friends now within 30 minutes, so I tend to go out more and enjoy life on occasion
