Well, that’s it.
We put an incredible amount of wait into it. And finally, mako is online. Was it worth the whole wait? I think so. (I’ve been hanging around Keshet only for seven months, but some people have been working on this thing for two years). It’s a well made site — bugs and stability issues aside — and while leaning heavily towards television related content and celebrity festivities, I think some of its content is the best the Hebrew web has to offer.
(Will this mean I’m back to writing here and in Quotendquote? I certainly hope so).
What have I been up to these past seven months? I’ve been hired to found and edit the Digital section in mako. Digital was to deal with personal electronics and the internet in a broad-audience way; I pulled it a little to the geek side, while still keeping some of it 12-o’clock-flash-y. Somewhere in the middle of work the Men’s section needed a new editor, so I took that too. I don’t know which section I’m proud of more, but I am very proud of both, and of the wonderful people who worked with me, day and night and weekend, to make them look like they do now.
I’ll write about those sections, mainly Digital, a lot more in the coming months. I also want to share with you a few of the insights I gained while working with the technologists in Keshet — mainly, about how not to produce a site like this. But right now I’m tired, tired, tired. In the meanwhile, if you can read Hebrew, browse mako for a while. Have fun.
Ruth Krammer | 02-Jan-09 at 4:41 pm | Permalink
Sorry this is in English, but it is important that you know that your Eretz Nehederet, was anything but nehederet. It was very cruel and disgusting to see the fun made of the terrible war that’s going on. There is a sense of humor, and this isn’t funny, and there is the basic decency which we should remember. We are not Hamas or any of the terrorist organizations, consequently, we should never lower ourselves to their levels. The casualties are terrible, on both sides, and to show a chart such as 400/4 to remind us that we have lower casualties, has no place in a decent country’s television. With that sort of ‘humor’ we place ourselves on the same categories as these maniacs have been doing. As far as many of my friends and my self are concerned, we turned off the program — permanently. I would rather read a good book, than see such trash.
It is obscene, sick humor, giving Ch.2 a very bad name. Hopefully the program will either clean up it’s act, or fail miserably.
It is a sad, bad, mad world, and this is only making matters worse.
I hope you will publish this, and the ratings will show that a major mistake has been made.