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Archive of Tom's published writings Note: Most of the offsite links are dead. Sic transit gloria mundi. Contact me if you'd like to see the (unedited) copies I have. Columns I wrote a newsletter for SpamCon Foundation, of which I was the Executive Director. Read past newsletters. Consumer writing For Productopia Productopia creates and licenses buyer's guides for such entities as Netscape Netcenter. Each "editorial set" comprises an overview, nine product reviews, summaries of comparative models, a buyer's guide, about 75 links, and other small pieces that come to about 6,500 words each. (Note: Productopia went under, so the texts aren't available online anymore. I can send unedited copies by request.) Air Conditioners Clothes washers Clothes dryers Dishwashers Inline skates Kids' bikes Microwave ovens Point-and-shoot cameras Skateboards Press releases and collateral Available upon request. Editing for MacWEEK A linked list of the 100+ reviews I edited for MacWEEK between May 1996 and June 1997. Computer-related writings Exclusive to this site Tom's top tips for high-tech P.R. Creating an effective P.R. Web site Is P.R. a creative art? For TechTV Five ways to fight spam, 1 October 2001 The new rules of netiquette, 15 October 2001 For The Net magazine The Net was a consumer-driven newsstand magazine about the Internet from Imagine Publishing. Feature stories (5 total, averaging 4,000 words each) Web site reviews for the "Blue Pages" (120 total, 100 words each) For MacWEEK magazine Published by Ziff-Davis Publishing, MacWEEK was for eight years the only major periodical about the Macintosh market to appear weekly. It was distributed to a controlled circulation list of about 100,000 people worldwide. I've written several reviews for it, and was a Reviews Editor there May 1996-June 1997. Insiders and Analyses (4 total, averaging 900 words each) Reviews (19 total, averaging 800 words each) For the San Jose Metro A review of Jim Carlton's book, Apple: The Inside Story of Intrigue, Egomania, and Business Blunders. For MicroTimes A feature-length report on a mass-mailing incident between two online auction houses. For ZiffNet/Mac ZiffNet/Mac (now ZD Net/Mac) is the online arm of Ziff-Davis Publishing, responsible for repurposing content from the company's Mac-related magazines for online distribution. At the time that I was an editor there (1994-1995), I wrote over 600 shareware reviews that appeared on CompuServe, the World Wide Web and (god help us) Apple's defunct service, eWorld. They appear here as they appeared on eWorld; some still appear in ZD Net/Mac's Web-based Software Central and CompuServe service. Catalog of Shareware reviews (627 total, averaging 150 words each) Published writings on other subjects For Heroic Stories "The Good Fight", a short essay about someone I knew in Cincinnati. For garage.com An article on P.R. for high-tech companies: "Using P.R. to Attract and Keep Investors." Book Waaay back in college, I edited the 196-page Bisexuality: A Reader and Sourcebook for Times Change Press. It did well: demand necessitated three printings. This page was last updated on Thursday, July 28, 2005 at 2:39pm CDT. All contents copyright 2005 by Tom Geller.