{"id":1784,"date":"2007-11-19T12:47:18","date_gmt":"2007-11-19T17:47:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/missingthepointnet\/"},"modified":"2007-11-19T12:47:18","modified_gmt":"2007-11-19T17:47:18","slug":"missingthepointnet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/missingthepointnet","title":{"rendered":"Missingthepoint.net"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was going through our office&#8217;s mail just now, so I could grab my industry-specific magazines before they get filed. I have to keep up with some of our competitors, like Genetic Engineering News and Pharmaceutical Processing. We&#8217;re all on each other&#8217;s mailing lists, usually under funny names and fake companies. I also keep an eye out for general business magazines that have pharma-specific editorial, to see how much they get wrong.<\/p>\n<p>Today, I came across one of the great business magazines of all time: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.messagingnews.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Messaging News,<\/a> The Technology of Email and Instant Messaging<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>I chuckled over the idea of a print magazine devoted to instant electronic communication, but I really laughed when I discovered that it comes out bi-monthly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was going through our office&#8217;s mail just now, so I could grab my industry-specific magazines before they get filed. I have to keep up with some of our competitors, like Genetic Engineering News and Pharmaceutical Processing. We&#8217;re all on each other&#8217;s mailing lists, usually under funny names and fake companies. I also keep an &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/missingthepointnet\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Missingthepoint.net&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[27,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-business","category-pharmaceuticals"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-sM","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12819,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-357-walter-bernard","url_meta":{"origin":1784,"position":0},"title":"Episode 357 &#8211; Walter Bernard","author":"Gil","date":"January 13, 2020","format":"audio","excerpt":"Virtual Memories Show 357: Walter Bernard \"The first thing you try when you're called in, is to find out how the top people see the problem. 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