I recently noticed that I have been writing titles, not headlines, on my items. A headline contains a verb. Thus the aspirational headline on this item.

I hope someone will prove me wrong. I believe there is not a complete public or private set of any CMP magazine or newspaper.

Lord Hollick and his British and American “managers” were wide awake on a clear day with both hands on the wheel as they drove CMP/UBM into the ground. In civil aviation, the term for this is Controlled Flight Into Terrain.

Apparently, despite their British Public School education, they believed “history is bunk.”[1] It seems Lord Hollick used to light his cigars with back issues, as $100 bills were too crass for the British. They certainly did nothing to preserve any of the archives.

I personally had complete runs of Information Systems News and InformationWEEK. I brought them into the San Francisco office as an historical resource. They were thrown out.

I wrote more than a million words in 20 years, all of them now gone. My work was as evanescent as baby’s breath, with the shelf live of fish. If you wrote for CMP, so was yours.

[1] What would their sixth form history master say if he knew?