MacWEEK, a cornerstone of the Mac press for 14 years, has shut down. Mac Publishing today announced that the site, which originally was published as a weekly magazine, will be merged into MacCentral—Mac Publishing's daily Mac news site—in an effort to streamline online operations within the company.
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Interesting that the first article I've seen from Matthew Rothenberg in quite some time appeared on CNET today as well.
the valley s deep and wide
you will be missed old friend
hasta
JD
Haven't read the thing for years. Wouldn't even have noticed unless it was mentioned here.
MacWeek was only the shadow of its former self, and no longer had useful and insightful reviews and articles.
I miss the old MacWeek, but I won't be missing the web site.
Same with MacCentral, which used to be a cool, interesting site. Shortly after they sold to MacWeek they started hiring these putzes who write filler copy paraphrasing press releases. Who gives a rat's behind.
I'll stick with MacNN and occasionally MacInTouch; that's all the news I need.
It has been less than a year since Stephen Beale announced the death of the Mac The Knife column and the new path of "no rumors" that MacWeek would take. See for the story in Stephen's words.
I went from checking MacWeek a couple of times a day to checking them maybe once a week. In his editorial Stephen admits that MTK was popular. If you run a newspaper you need subscribers. If you run a web site you need page views. Why would you get rid of one of your biggest draws, change the personality (no rumors, sign NDA's) of your business and alienate your customers all at once? Nobody, least of all anybody at Mac Publishing, should be surprised by this.
http://macweek.zdnet.com/2000/07/02/0704mtkedit.html
Will the last Mac retailer/vendor/website to leave please turn off the lights on your way out ...
to us
It makes me really sad to see this, but in reality, Macweek died a long time ago. Their site has been relatively useless since Mac the Knife was killed. They barely updated it with any exclusive news or anything of the sort. I checked it every week, but stayed for about 10 seconds, because everything that was listed had already been reported elsewhere.
Still, this old fan feels really sad to see a once high-flying icon sail into the sunset. *sigh*
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MacWEEK has been dragging their feet for two years now. It seems Mac Publishing didn't know what to do with them. I even remember reading an article on the site not to long ago where they had to explain sort of their "point of existence" after a barragee of questions (hate mail?) from readers.
Not that I won't miss the site, mind you, their writers were talented and knowledgeable (which can't be said about MacCentral...), but I saw this coming from a mile away.
Adieu, MacWEEK...