It's event season. This month it's the first-ever Code Conference. In June it's Bloomberg's Next Big Thing. In July it's Fortune Brainstorm. WSJD Live debuts in October. Which one sets today's agenda?
Joe Brown is surprised you know who he is. Can you imagine? Re/code's deputy managing editor for features and curated content -- the guy who decides which contributed posts appear on the hottest site in tech media -- sees himself as "under the radar" and a "middleman."
If your organization placed six contributed pieces this month in Re/code, LinkedIn, TechCrunch and the New York Times, you'd be pretty pleased.
Anyone who has cold-pitched Re/code senior editor Arik Hesseldahl knows he can be, well, kind of cranky. "I've given up trying to give advice on how to pitch me," Arik tells us. "No one ever follows it and the ones who need it most never seem to see it. I tend to work more readily with people I have a relationship with and who know and get what I do.
January has brought a blizzard of tech edit innovation.