That is true, the Hard Edge was named and writted by Rich Santalesa and Dave Harvey. We inherited the column when they left to start a magazine. Rich actually created the whole Shopper "Tech Section" which at the time had great articles on programming, and early pre Web stuff by Steven J. Vaugh Nichols, and of course Stan Veit's great "Whatever happened to..." column. (Stan has been so supportive since this happened.) The Tech Section when I was running it after Rich left was almost 35 pages or almost the entire size of an average magazine.
Those Shopper pages were huge too, but we could run longer articles back when it was a phone book. The original Hard Edge was actually a whopping 4,000 words but finally got chopped to 1,800. It was hard to not have the room to do the weird charts and in-depth stuff we used to be able to do with all that space. But I think we managed to keep in some of the humor. It sure was fun to write.
--Alice Hill
First - thank you to EVERYONE who said they liked the column. We loved doing it and still are reeling from the decision to replace us with a shopping section of products and prices. And to the person who said this news item was done as a cheap ploy to get PayPal donations - we wish! The %$%% site is down. Guess this isn't out month. But thanks to all, and I hope you'll check out Aliceandbill.com. We are funding it ourselves for Hard Edge readers and post every day, so we hope you'll like it. We are also "in talks" with a few mags about a new print home as well, so stay tuned.....Alice Hill
First - thank you to EVERYONE who said they liked the column. We loved doing it and still are reeling from the decision to replace us with a shopping section of products and prices. And to the person who said this news item was done as a cheap ploy to get PayPal donations - we wish! The %$%% site is down. Guess this isn't out month.
But thanks to all, and I hope you'll check out Aliceandbill.com. We are funding it ourselves for Hard Edge readers and post every day, so we hope you'll like it. We are also "in talks" with a few mags about a new print home as well, so stay tuned.....Alice Hill
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That is true, the Hard Edge was named and writted by Rich Santalesa and Dave Harvey. We inherited the column when they left to start a magazine. Rich actually created the whole Shopper "Tech Section" which at the time had great articles on programming, and early pre Web stuff by Steven J. Vaugh Nichols, and of course Stan Veit's great "Whatever happened to..." column. (Stan has been so supportive since this happened.) The Tech Section when I was running it after Rich left was almost 35 pages or almost the entire size of an average magazine. Those Shopper pages were huge too, but we could run longer articles back when it was a phone book. The original Hard Edge was actually a whopping 4,000 words but finally got chopped to 1,800. It was hard to not have the room to do the weird charts and in-depth stuff we used to be able to do with all that space. But I think we managed to keep in some of the humor. It sure was fun to write. --Alice Hill
First - thank you to EVERYONE who said they liked the column. We loved doing it and still are reeling from the decision to replace us with a shopping section of products and prices. And to the person who said this news item was done as a cheap ploy to get PayPal donations - we wish! The %$%% site is down. Guess this isn't out month. But thanks to all, and I hope you'll check out Aliceandbill.com. We are funding it ourselves for Hard Edge readers and post every day, so we hope you'll like it. We are also "in talks" with a few mags about a new print home as well, so stay tuned.....Alice Hill
First - thank you to EVERYONE who said they liked the column. We loved doing it and still are reeling from the decision to replace us with a shopping section of products and prices. And to the person who said this news item was done as a cheap ploy to get PayPal donations - we wish! The %$%% site is down. Guess this isn't out month. But thanks to all, and I hope you'll check out Aliceandbill.com. We are funding it ourselves for Hard Edge readers and post every day, so we hope you'll like it. We are also "in talks" with a few mags about a new print home as well, so stay tuned.....Alice Hill