And the odds for the media just got a little worse, since Douthit is the editor of a Seattle-based technology magazine and had agreed to let a public radio reporter from Seattle ride along with him.
Tom Standage is The Economist's Digital Editor and editor of Technology Quarterly, our emerging-technology supplement.
Products like the OSD are a good example of a small but growing trend toward openness, said Jimmy Guterman, editor of Release 2.0, a technology and business newsletter published by O'Reilly Media of Sebastopol, Calif.
An article on Friday about the founding of a technology-focused venture capital fund by Michael Arrington, editor of the technology blog TechCrunch, referred incompletely to the policy of another tech blog, GigaOm.
Last Monday, at a dinner at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York, Mark R. Anderson, editor of The Strategic News Service, a technology newsletter, sounded like a traitor to his class.
In addition to appearing to speak at Engadget events and co-hosting a weekly podcast, he is also a contributor and a founding editor of Joystiq, and a technology critic and commentator who has been quoted in Business Week, the New York Times, the Wall St. Journal.
ESTHER DYSON -- Editor of the technology newsletter Release 1.0.
"The pico manufacturers haven't answered the question 'Why do I need one?' well enough," believes Kieran Alger, online editor of the technology magazine T3.
