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I continue to be amazed at the people coming out the woodwork who not only want to be a part of iProng Magazine, but have specific ideas on how to improve it. Good ideas, too. I mention something off-hand on Twitter, a new potential writer direct messages me. I go to a meetup, someone approaches me with a great idea. It's twelve days til Christmas, kids - don't you know you're supposed to be making yourselves fashionably unavailable until after the new year?

Also interesting of late have been some of the conversations with record labels and publicists. Specific talk of what we can do together in the magazine in 2008. Because so many of the major artists have rightfully packed it in from a media standpoint for the rest of the year, a lot of those conversations can't be completed until after the first of the year when some of the blanks have been filled in. But this is going to be fun January for more reasons than just the Macworld/CES goodies.

As for me, I'm heading home for the holidays early next week. I haven't exactly shut things down here in LA quite yet, but aside from a final pair of phone interviews that I'll get wrapped this week, it's more or less all housekeeping stuff between now and the time I head to the airport.

January 2008 will go down as the issue that gets assembled from the road. I'll be remaining in Florida right up until the day I get on a plane and head directly from Florida to CES in Las Vegas (my press credentials arrived today, the first to bear the "iProng Magazine" moniker), then back to Los Angeles for a whopping 72 hours before heading to San Francisco for Macworld Expo. So that's more than a full month spent almost entirely on the road, but most of it spent at places I've referred to as "home" at one time or another.

If not for a few more days of loose ends that need tying up here in LA before I shut down the west coast and head east, I think I'd change my flight and head out tomorrow. But a little bit more work to be done first...