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this episode of technobuffalo is brought to you by loot crate what's up everyone welcome back there pisode of Rhett enters riffs the shower I can riff on anything in the world of consumer electronics this week it's all about consumer electronics if people that helped make the news I am joined in the office by our head of mobile mr. Todd easel team came out to visit yep what's up everyone so I get a lot of in Croatian people asking what it takes to be in the industry or what it's like to be a writer so we're gonna have some question for somebody who is in the trenches so to speak on writing just a ton of tech Compton so you ever wanted to get in the industry want to be an online journalist this is a guy to listen to it's going to get started I to the first question I think probably on most people's minds once again in the industry is how did you get to where you are what path should should people take who want to be in the online world or any online consumer electronics world I think there's a lot of paths you can take really I personally was an English major in school so I was always writing and I knew early on that I wanted to write and about technology actually because when I first went to school I wanted to be a computer science major and then sort is slowly gravitated over to an English major and so but I always had that passion with computers and phones and has a hobby probably like a lot of you out there and what I did then was apply for internships to make sure that i had a writing career lined up after graduation and i worked for a number of sites maximum pc magazine was an internship Ars Technica i wrote for gizmodo for like a week maybe and so I've been all over and then I slowly went and worked full-time at laptop magazine and eventually made my way to TechnoBuffalo we're happy to have you so keep writing I'd say so on average how many pieces of content do you write per day I think it depends on the day for sure if we have a review going out or an opinion piece it would be fewer pieces so maybe eight but if not then it's up there between eight to 12 depending on the day if it's a windows phone 8.1 day like last week or if it's an apple WWDC event can be as many as 18 I mean you're really sort of pumping out content to make sure everybody gets it what's the hardest part of your job Oh other than dealing no I think you know it's really tough when you think about like what's the hardest part because when like you always say we're doing what we love right so I'd say the hardest part is making sure that we're covering enough content that you want to read on our homepage and making sure that we're getting all of it up at a reasonable pace so we don't want to be late on news but we also can't trip on ourselves and so that can be really frustrating so we might want one story about the iphone 6 running say a rumor when there's also news about say blackberry shutting down and yet you know just for an example big news we don't want to have one article Trump the other one so we have to sit on you sometimes instead of running it so how do you and as someone who sort of works you know who's running mobile is sort of in charge of one of the larger departments within the company how do you sort of walk that line between like okay trying to be first and then trying to be best yeah I think that's really one of the hardest things to do is you can rush and get something out there quick with just a sentence which is sometimes valuable because you want to make sure that someone like you out there it gets that news first but if you have an opinion on it always make sure we try to make sure we follow up with an opinion then so we might have a one-paragraph story go up to make sure that you get the news and then half hour 45 minutes an hour later get something that really analyzes it so you get both you get the speed and then hopefully you get the quality that you're looking for as well so we learned what the hardest part of job is what's the best part the best part always playing with the latest toys and I think a technobuffalo the people that we get to work with every day we have a chat room that we all talked in so even though I'm on the East Coast I talked with these guys here on the west coast all day long and I've been working here for two years over two 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we say here a lot like doing you love but I think it's worked out for us and it's always worked out for me and I think really if you want to be a writer always keep writing one of the things you need to show some buddies that you can write so have your own blog even if the goal isn't building your own traffic but just having all those samples up and your own opinions showing people you can do that and it really doesn't matter your background if you're an engineer or you're an English major like I was you it really doesn't matter just make sure your writing and if somebody consider your strong writer then then somebody like me would eventually hire you I think so Thank You Man thank you say we thought it'd be interesting to hear sort of from somebody who does a lot of the writing I don't get a chance to write as nearly as much as I'd like to anymore and Todd's name is littered all over all over the site so I thought it'd be kind of cool to serve hear from the man himself The you guys 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