Congratulations to what seems to be a great development for you guys! You have been giving us top quality information for a long time now, and I am happy to see that this is paying off for you. Keep up the good work, and my best wishes for future success!!!

So what happens to JK’s forays to Starbucks?! Would Om consider that slacking? (If so, he grabbed the wrong guy! Ha!) Good luck.

@TeraBracet I’d love to be a slacker when I grow up. PS I’ve never met a professional blogger who worked less than 40 hrs/wk.

i know a few columnists & like they say in the industry “itza lazy living”. but thats also why the journalism field dont get paid the big bucks (except for the few notables, which are more celebrity than actual journalists i.e. Barbara Walters).

it’s something i had considered doing in my later years, but personally have issues being viewed as a “slacker” by my fellow peers. i have managed to get a few articles printed in national magazines but it doesnt really count since it was related to my real job.

All I can say is Congrats and keep up the great work you’re doing

Check out Byline in the App Store you will love it!

For those concerned about you giving up the Big Oil job and not being able to “field test” devices, I will freely offer up my services to test any devices that you want to send me (I’ll even sign a NDA) to try in “the wild”.

Paul, the slave to ads is far worse for independent bloggers than those who do it professionally for folks like GigaOM. Believe me, we’ve been doing that for years and it’s very tough.

Ok so I was right you became employees of Om Media. Looking at Kevins post it clearly states they are providing you with benefits therefore becaame employees of Om. Shocking since many sites who get purchased never get health benefits..

Either way congrats on your new employer.. For me I wouldnt have sold my time to blog for someone else as you become a slave to the ads! Om is going to expect clicks and pageviews. If you do not provide that you will be eliminated.

Paul, we were purchased and no, we will not disclose the terms of the deal. It’s just not done.

Congrats for both of you.

Like Mark and Solomon, I’m concerned about your mobile experience and your unique consumer/candid point of view.

But you don’t live in Silicon Valley, it’s a relief

I have to admit that this change concerns me greatly. One of my favorite aspects of your blog was your job with big oil, and how it forced your devices to succeed on their merits. I would love to see over the next few weeks a progression of how you can adjust your new routine to still provide valuable field testing. I am happy for you and your new commute, but I remain concerned that you have just become a less demanding mobile user.

Excellent. Congrats. Happy to hear the commute is short and I hope the view from the office is awesome.

I too agree with the comments above. Why should we care about your cereal post? It seems as if Om picked JKOntherun for a staff and not the site itself. So are you both getting health benefits? I know you dont want to disclose but I think it is very misleading to say you were purchased.. It seems as you were aquired to work for Om. So I think the post should be JKONtheRun now employed by OhMedia?

Congrats! Hopefully someday we will all be able to do this and ‘retire’ from the Man’! haha

I agree with solomon, hopefully you guys aren’t going to be like the tom cat whom you have snipped and then spends all day on top of the TV staring at you… instead of testing the latest traffic aware GPS routing via an all too familiar run to Fedex to get the latest shiny shiny they wouldn’t leave at the door (and don’t we all know that mad rush) you guys will be introducing new characters here since you’ll now know your Fedex delivery agents by their first names right?