Enterprise IT News Archive 1999-2022

In 23 years of technology coverage, four major news archives have been populated. Unlike the author, these archives remain publicly available.

to Eric Motchel

The author is leaving, but the archives remain. In 23 years of reporting, a total of four archives have been filled to last. From 2017 to 2022 alone, the 386 long articles comprising some three million characters, calculated in old typography classes, were a multivolume pictorial work.

This original print magazine standard was developed and adapted to the IT news format for the web with the FM4 editorial team. The Blue Page editors have brought this unusual project with generous links to reach a scope uncommon for news of this kind. The author is leaving, already missing his colleagues.

FM4 archive in scroll

The entire report was aimed at people with a general education who are primarily interested in technology, do not have any technical skills, but have very different core competencies, knowledge and interests. As these people naturally use more and more modern communication technologies, there must also be concern for new technological developments and threats. That was the premise. The initial doubts in 2010 were whether these young people from FM4, who were more interested in music and culture, would be able to handle the technological obsession with lyrics.

Three weeks after the end of the future ORF region and switching to FM4, there was no longer any doubt. The FM4 web team embraced the layout naturally, as if articles about interception interfaces in 5G networks, punched TLS transport encryption or data mining were always visualized with montages. The author’s challenge was to describe mostly not entirely uncomplicated techniques with similes and similes, with reductions and simplifications in a way that editors interested in indie pop radio could easily understand what could be achieved with the technique, because it works that way. It was always comforting that FM4s reported on the job post-editing: “Typos are out, everything is easy to understand.” And a triumph when it was also said: “Thriller.”

ORF

Future District Archive, hosted by APA, can also be searched by simple keywords. Among the reports from 2010 to 2006 are 400 longer articles and analyzes by the author. From 2006, FuZo was run by the excellent doctor Günter Hack. In total, this archive includes more than 50,000 reports and articles dating back to 1999. Articles from 2006 to 1999 are not signed by name, since the author was the managing editor.

ORF Futurezone archives in back scroll

Another challenge was that all these series of comparisons and similes in articles about actual technical conditions should be approximately correct and should not be contradictory. Technological conditions should be depicted in similes and metaphors as clear as possible, so that an interested audience can get an idea of ​​how a new technology works or how a familiar one can be misused, without the IT community reading along. The impression is increasingly distressed.

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German Verlag

At the same time, the title and the first two paragraphs had to correspond to the sober news flow of the blue page, because this was the only way to give articles that did not depict technical progress in the form of descriptions of new products such as smartphones or iPods a chance to reach, because this progress also has an aspect Very dark and dangerous.

Thanks to the openness of the ORF. On colleagues for this access to information technology, it was possible to present huge stories like “dispute over new 5G monitor interfaces”, an access that corresponds roughly to the explosion of their actual technologies – political content. So saying goodbye to colleges at ORF.at and FM4 is also the hardest part of this balance sheet. Farewell from the higher circles up to the general management of the enterprise, for which the news on the Internet is currently a kind of “newspaper”, is a real soul fair with dancing lattices.

Conclusion

Such a surreal journalistic joke would not have happened to the then infamous surrealist duo Rubinowitz & Moechel in 1993. At that time, we only went so far as to hint that “the sale of the rights to all mobile phone jokes to the Kerch group by the general management of the institution.”