Editors’ Note: This is the first interview in my new “Writers I Read” series.
Joshua Schnell is the Editor-n-Chief of Macgasm, a Mac-centric blog based in Ottawa. I currently moonlight as the Senior Contributing Editor for Macgasm, and have enjoyed working with Josh closely on the site. However, I’ve read Macgasm for years, enjoying Josh’s writing style and no-nonsense attitude towards some of the silliness in which other Mac sites partake. Stephen: Josh, thanks for being agreed to be interviewed. I know you keep busy running your Mac-centric news site, Macgasm. It’s been in my RSS reader for a long time. What got you started in the tech writing world? Joshua: It was probably a little bit of a personal perfect storm. I was pretty enamored with ZDTV and TechTV growing up. Around the time that G4 started bastardizing the network, I began to lose interest in their programming, and I found myself trying to keep up with the original TechTV personalities online. It’s kind of weird, but once TechTV collapsed, it kind of left a technology void to be filled.