Busy week so far
For the past couple of years, we've taken the week off after Macworld Expo to recuperate. It's done two things: First of all, it's given us all excuses to take vacations. It's also shut the MacCentral site down completely, and for a daily news site, that's kind of awkward.
The fact is, many of our readers don't realize that the site is basically run by three people -- Dennis and I write a lot of the stuff, Jim posts sometimes. We'll cull stories from IDG News Service, as we're part of that organization, and we'll occasionally use stringers. But for the most part, it's just the three of us. So when any one of us goes on vacation, it's usually to the detriment of the sanity of the other other two. In that respect, it actually makes a lot of sense to furlough, to force us all to take downtime together.
On the other hand, our readers are accustomed to coming to the site every day or almost every day to read what's going on in the Mac universe. And if they don't get it from us, they're bound to get it somewhere else. And there's always the slim chance that they'll keep getting it somewhere else even once we come back.
So this year, we did things differently.
This is the first time in a few years that we've kept the site open the week after Macworld. And, for the second time in two weeks, I've been unexpectedly surprised in a good way. Last week, it was because I got a lot more out of Macworld CreativePro than I had been expecting; this week it's because there's a lot more news out there than I had anticipated.
I'm not saying it's the most substantive week for Apple-related news, because it's not. But there have been a few interesting announcements that have made it worthwhile to "keep the doors open" so to speak, and I'm awfully glad we have. If for no other reason, it's nice to settle back into a routine after having that routine disrupted all last week.