Maria, a yellow lab belonging to the design director, moseys by, wearing a blue ribbon to protest censorship on the Net and a tasteful set of pearls. She's the most dressed up member of HotWired. Women don't wear makeup. With a few exceptions, men don't wear ties. The chief operating officer, the marketing director and the legal counsel share space with the newsroom staff.
Nobody has an office.
I feel better about my future. I have a feeling it's going somewhere. The switch meant a departure from tradition, a new way of thinking, of editing, including the incorporation of audio and video into stories. It meant tossing out the AP Stylebook in favor of rules established by Wired magazine, the ad rich, beautiful print cousin of HotWired. So much happens so fast on the Net that HotWired, which has been in existence since October 1994, is considered old and established.