Heh. Yeah, that’s right – publisher, baby. Some of you have noticed (and thanks for the emails) that I haven’t been around much of late. There are a few different reasons for this, but the long and the short is that I’m slipping into a slightly different role. At least for now, I’m embracing the “man behind the curtain” persona, and as such am embracing a more traditional (yipe!) “publisher” position on GMD. I’ll be doing things behind the scenes – including some improvements and promotion of the site. Mostly, though, I’ll be playing J. Jonah Jameson and harassing the front pagers heartlessly whilst chomping on a big, nasty cigar.

None of which is to say that I won’t be writing, but my writing in the last few months has often been the product of much collaboration, so putting it under my own byline seems rather glory-hogging. Features like the mojometers often are developed with group input – and this is precisely why we have the user GMD – to more accurately byline collective efforts of different front pagers.

So I’ll still have a lot of impact on content – as well as doing some writing – but I’ll likely just be more behind the scenes and collaborative (or is that behind the scenes and dictatorial?). At least for now. Let the other folks get the spotlight I’ve hogged for too long. I get the cool, fancy title.