About Jim Lynch
Jim has written for many leading industry publications and sites over the years including PC Magazine, ExtremeTech, Computer Gaming World, Windows Sources, Salon, MSNBC, Forbes and many others.
Jim spent about 8 years working for Ziff Davis Media as the Community Manager for PC Magazine and ExtremeTech. He managed the ExtremeTech and PC Magazine forums and was a contributing technology analyst for ExtremeTech.
He is currently a freelance writer, blogger and community management consultant. If you’d like to hire him as a writer or to help you manage your online community please send him an email.
You can read past ExtremeTech columns in his column archive. Jim was also the editor and producer of the weekly Top Tips column for ExtremeTech.
He also writes Desktop Linux Reviews, the iPhone App Reviews Blog and dithers a bit here and there on his own technology news blog.
This blog was started as a way to market Jim as a freelance writer and online community manager when he was first starting out. These days it serves as a place for opinion columns and reviews as well as a writing clips repository.
Some of the original content on this site includes 5 Reasons Why I Love Mac OS X Snow Leopard, Fart Wars: iFart Mobile Versus the Ultimate Fart Machine, How To Play Warhammer Online On Your Mac, Drop Those Disease Infested Discs of Death and 5 Reasons Why World of Warcraft Doesn’t Suck. If you have a suggestion for a column you’d like to see here please post it on the Column Suggestions page.
There are also a few things written for another blog a long time ago that are archived here including articles about Timothy Treadwell, Erich Ritter and Daniel Pearl’s death. And you can find an archive of some very moving flash videos about September 11, 2001.
You can also see an ancient version of this site with even older writing clips via the Internet Wayback Machine.
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