{"id":775,"date":"2011-02-17T22:22:39","date_gmt":"2011-02-18T03:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/"},"modified":"2019-02-21T23:41:44","modified_gmt":"2019-02-22T04:41:44","slug":"blastr","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/editing\/blastr\/","title":{"rendered":"Blastr"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2000, I was hired by the SCI FI Channel to edit the online magazine <em>Science Fiction Weekly<\/em>. Thirteen years later, I was editing <a href=\"http:\/\/blastr.com\/\"><em>Blastr<\/em><\/a> for the Syfy Channel. How&#8217;d we get from one to other?<\/p>\n<p>On  Labor Day 2000, at the 58th World Science Fiction Convention in Chicago, I was hired to take over as editor of the SCI FI (now Syfy) Channel&#8217;s <em>Science Fiction Weekly<\/em> from Brooks Peck. <em>Science Fiction Weekly<\/em> was one of the earliest sci-fi sites, launched  as an independent site by Craig Engler on <a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20030429160826\/http:\/\/www.scifi.com\/sfw\/issue1\/index.html\">August 1, 1995<\/a>. By the time I took over the Internet magazine of sci-fi news, reviews, and interviews, it was being published  by Syfy.<\/p>\n<p>I continued editing <em>Science Fiction Weekly<\/em> until January 2009, when it merged with <em>SCI FI Wire<\/em>, where I continued on in the role of Features Editor alongside Patrick Lee, who was News Editor. On July 15, 2010, <em>SCI FI Wire<\/em> relaunched as <em>Blastr<\/em>, expressing what we&#8217;d long realized&#8212;that it had evolved  beyond its news origins to become a smorgasbord of news, features, images, popular science, videos and guest bloggers.  I was  the sole editor until December 31, 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Here are a few of my favorite features from over the years:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.syfy.com\/syfywire\/print_our_lost_bingo_card?page=6\">Print our Lost bingo cards and play along with the premiere<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.syfy.com\/syfywire\/5-inappropriate-walking-dead-product-placements-we-avoided-pics\">5 inappropriate Walking Dead product placements we avoided (PICS)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.syfy.com\/syfywire\/four_labels_from_the_bruc\">Four labels from the Bruce Campbell&#8217;s Soup Company<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.syfy.com\/syfywire\/the-periodic-table-of-the-empire-strikes-back-chart\">The Periodic Table of The Empire Strikes Back (CHART)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.syfy.com\/syfywire\/infographic_the_tortured\">Infographic: The tortured 73-year history of The Hobbit film<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you liked those, keep checking <a href=\"http:\/\/blastr.com\/\">Blastr<\/a> daily for more!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2000, I was hired by the SCI FI Channel to edit the online magazine Science Fiction Weekly. Thirteen years later, I was editing Blastr for the Syfy Channel. How&#8217;d we get from one to other? On Labor Day 2000, at the 58th World Science Fiction Convention in Chicago, I was hired to take over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":780,"parent":41,"menu_order":11,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-775","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=775"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25801,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/775\/revisions\/25801"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/41"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}