Les Jones: MacRumors Founder Chooses "Blogger" Over "Doctor" Title

July 24, 2008

Blogging > MacRumors Founder Chooses "Blogger" Over "Doctor" Title

New York Times - My Son, the Blogger: An M.D. Trades Medicine for Apple Rumors:

For eight years, Arnold Kim has been trading gossip, rumor and facts about Apple, the notoriously secretive computer company, on his Web site, MacRumors.com.
It had been a hobby — albeit a time-consuming one — while Dr. Kim earned his medical degree. He kept at it as he completed his medical training and began diagnosing patients’ kidney problems. Dr. Kim’s Web site now attracts more than 4.4 million people and 40 million page views a month, according to Quantcast, making it one of the most popular technology Web sites.

It is enough to make Dr. Kim hang up his stethoscope. This month he stopped practicing medicine and started blogging full time.

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Did you ever have Dr. Eastham for Organic Chemistry? Sometime in the 70s, he went to medical school, earned an M.D., then practiced medicine while continuing to teach & do research at UT. That's serious time management skillz.

Posted by: Steve K. at July 24, 2008