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IMterviews - Thursday, November 4, 2004

Peter Rojas - the a:c IMterview

Peter Rojas pioneered the wildly popular gadgets and gizmos blog genre. He is Editorial Director at Weblogs Inc. for Engadget and other tech sites. He was founding blogger at Gizmodo, but left last year in a high profile break with Gizmodo management. Pete got his start writing for the Red Herring and even contributed to an early incarnation of The Alarm Clock, back when we published a print magazine.

The a:c: Hi Peter
projas: hey there
projas: had to get a few posts up
The a:c: No problem. Do you work
exclusively on Engadget are do you post
to others sites?
projas: I also am the editorial director
of our sibling sites, Joystiq.com, which
covers video games, and HackADay.com,
which covers hacks for gadgets and
electronics.

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