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Satirewire Calls It Quits

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the moment-of-silence dept.

stuyman writes "After almost three years, Andrew Marlatt, SatireWire's best (and only) employee is leaving the company. Says Marlatt "I all agreed it's time for me to move on...while the decision was certainly difficult, the meeting was actually quite harmonious. I brought doughnuts." He's going to start doing other things, and it has nothing to do with money. Read about it here. Satirewire has landed, please remain seated until we are fully stopped in the terminal area..." I owe Andrew some heavy laughter, and wish him good luck.

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  1. Where can I put MY tech humor? by AtariDatacenter · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I've done a bit of writing at SegFault. (The majority of it right before it went belly up.) It'd be nice if SatireWire would accept submissions now that their main contributor is going onto other things. (Well, main contributor, editor, publisher, errand boy...)

    Is there *decent* website we can go to in order to publish our own faux tech news?

  2. more brilliant twisted humor by gnugnugnu · · Score: 2, Interesting

    How do we now this is not just another part of the joke.

    A slashdottting seems like a great way to shut down the site :)

    Satire is a really powerful way to get a message across. This weeks story telling boring people not to encrypt stuff will help me to convince people why they do need cryptography.
    http://satirewire.com/news/aug02/encryption.shtm l

    My personal favorite story has to be this one about Microsoft Outlook, i inlcude it anytime some sends me a virus warning.
    http://www.satirewire.com/news/0103/outlook.shtm l
    classic just classic
    Foot-and-Mouth First Virus Unable To Spread Through Microsoft Outlook

    Satire is a powerful weapon.
    Satirewire will be dearly missed.

  3. Quit while you're ahead. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    This is too bad, but i'm glad to see he isn't going to keep forcing himself to write even though his heart's gone out of it. Sometimes, with continuous art/literature pieces like Satirewire, the most important thing of all is knowing when to stop.

    And at least he's going to keep writing, so unlike, say, Bill Watterson, we're still going to hear from him :) This is better for the readers. It means they can still hear from him from time to time, and his output will be much better because he isn't having to spend all his energy on this hungry website beast.

    1. Re:Quit while you're ahead. by Ubergrendle · · Score: 3, Interesting

      1st rule of entertainment: Always leave them wanting for more.

      e.g. Well executed: Monty Python, The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Bill Watterson, Gary Larson

      e.g. Poorly executed: The X-Files, AC/DC, Metallica, Charles Shultz, Microsoft

      --
      John Maynard Keynes: "When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do?"
  4. So, now... by Apuleius · · Score: 3, Interesting

    How about collating SatireWire's articles and publishing a book, a la Dispatches from the 9th CIrcle?