Sometimes, I read articles in the technology press, and I think, hell, I could do better than that in my spare time. And then I think, oh, I have.
In technology, people who can’t or don’t invent or build things can work on assisting, researching, documenting, translating, illustrating, managing, integrating, debugging, or promoting them. If they can’t do any of those things, they have one last resort.
There are many words for this activity, none of them positive. If there were any legitimacy to it, perhaps it would have attracted greater talents. But it seems that most people that have some sort of communicative talent and an understanding of technology become technical writers, marketers, PR flaks, even (ugh) advertisers or science fiction writers. Those without a talent for words or numbers become technology journalists.
Pity them.
Secretly Ironic 