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I’d like to thank Jamie Kennedy for his influence in bringing this site back. Without him, it would not have happened.
It became increasingly difficult to write and stay focused with the intense negative energy of the internet in general and the tech community in particular. Hate and anger sell, and sell very well online. I got bogged down in off site wars about KDE 4. Tech reporting and sites seemed to either blindly trumpet Open Source/Free Software (Winoze is teh suck, Ubuntu ROXORZ!) or more typically attack it (Plasmoids? I’d rather gouge out my eyes and cut off my fingers than use them!!!!) I would write an article, then sit on it and eventually not publish it because the threat of insane emails became too much. Dare I say something positive about Kontact? Should I mention that I liked the compositing effects of KDE 4? It just wasn’t worth it.
Combine this with well written and clever sites that nit picked the hell out of Free Software. These sites were enjoyable, fun reads and brought an important perspective to the table. But… over time the negativity became overwhelming, turning me off to the whole free software world that had become so important to me. I had a life, why bother writing about this stuff?
I then accidentally found Jamie Kennedy’s documentary Heckler. In short, he examines hecklers and looks at bloggers and the internet. He exposes a lot of these douchebags that write vitriol for who they are, failures in life that now have a voice. Tech writing seemed somewhat tame compared to these people. I felt an urge to provide a voice that wasn’t so negative, to adjust the site and get back to business. Ultimately I write for enjoyment, who cares how it is received? It might bring my internet income down to 17 cents a month from 29, but I can take that hit.
Linux Tech Daily is back, the rules here will be changing, and I commit to providing a non-biased look at things. I doubt I will be daily, but I hope to be more than yearly. I hope you find it worthwhile.