Deja Vecu

It feels strange to be writing for the Industry Standard again. In one way, I feel like I'm writing for a pod version of the original, but I guess it would feel even stranger if I were writing for a reanimated Standard with all the former machinery in place.Interestingly, around the same time I heard from Matt McAlister inviting me to be a guest blogger here, I got a call from The Standard's founder, John Battelle, inviting me to edit a magazine prototype for O'Reilly Books, called Make.John hired me to work at Wired in 1993. At the time, I was publishing bOING bOING magazine in Los Angeles with my wife Carla, and doing graphic design, mainly for Billy Idol. I had interviewed with Wired about a year before. They were considering me as the managing editor. But John got the job. I was happy to take the position of associate editor when they contacted me again.I left Wired to go freelance a little while after John left to start The Standard, and I began writing for the magazine pretty early on. Those years I spent on contract with The Standard were wonderful. The editorial staff was the best I've ever worked with. Smart, funny, helpful. And the magazine paid promptly. What a pleasure!It's good to be working with John again, and it's good to be writing for The Standard again, too. [Insert nostalgic smiley here.]

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