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Hackwriters: Why?

Sam North is the managing editor at Hackwriters.com, an independent Internet magazine for writers based at Falmouth College, which attracts submissions from all over the world.
He's been indulging in a little navel-gazing about the success of the project.



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"Tell me again why you do this thing for free?" Kate asked.

We had to pause a moment. We had to think of an answer.

About two years ago people didn’t ask you questions like that. It was obvious.

You were running a web site to make a billion or two or glory. Now, well even the glory looks a bit slim in the wider context of the Internet.

'It's like this,' Mathew Welford described, (on his way to do special effects for the new 'Lord of the Rings' movie in New Zealand, 'the Milky Way has less stars than there are web sites and no one actually knows how many stars there actually are.'

The state of the web now is a bit like reverse Warholism. 'Everyone gets the chance to be a complete nonentity for fifteen minutes'.

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