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title: 'Marshall Kirkpatrick moving back to the other side of the desk'
date: '2007-09-13T22:32:12-07:00'
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# Marshall Kirkpatrick moving back to the other side of the desk

[Marshall Kirkpatrick](http://marshallk.com "Marshall Kirkpatrick"), up until a few short hours ago the Director of Content for [SplashCast](http://splashcast.com "SplashCast"), has announced that he is he is leaving SplashCast to [join Web 2.0 blog Read/Write Web](http://marshallk.com/joiningrww "Marshall Kirkpatrick joining Read/Write Web").

[According to Read/Write Web](http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/marshall_kirkpatrick_joins_readwriteweb.php "Read/Write Web hires Marshall Kirkpatrick"), Marshall will be a lead writer, a role with which he is intimately familiar. (Many of you may remember that he held a similar position at another little Web 2.0 blog called [TechCrunch](http://techcrunch.com "TechCrunch").)

Richard MacManus, RWW’s founder, writes:

> Marshall will focus on breaking news for Read/WriteWeb, something he is very skilled at and which will complement Josh and I well.

While I’m sad for SplashCast, I couldn’t be happier for Marshall and [Read/Write Web](http://www.readwriteweb.com/ "Read/Write Web").

For all of you startups looking for coverage, I’m the first to admit that Read/Write Web pulls in a bit more traffic than Silicon Florist. [A bit](http://siteanalytics.compete.com/readwriteweb.com+siliconflorist.com/?metric=uv "Comparing RWW traffic to Silicon Florist traffic"). And Richard and team have really come back into their own after re-dedicating themselves to the space and refocusing the blog.

So heed Richard’s advice:

> A note to startups and companies wishing to be covered by Read/WriteWeb: it is even more important now that you use the [**tips@readwriteweb.com**](mailto:tips@readwriteweb.com) email address to contact us with news. Josh and Marshall will be monitoring that address daily.

Finally, you should all know that Marshall has been a great supporter and promoter of Silicon Florist in its infancy. (I have no reason to expect that will change.) In fact, I’m quite sure that a good many of you are reading this post because of Marshall’s efforts to promote Silicon Florist. **And for that I cannot thank him enough**.

At the same time, Marshall has also been an exemplary contact for SplashCast. But I know that both Alex Williams and Kim Ramage will be equally sterling representatives for SplashCast. Which, by the way, is the[ first media player to include Twitter functionality](http://siliconflorist.com/2007/09/13/tweet-splashcast-announces-twitter-integration-columbia-records-deal/ "SplashCast incorporates Twitter functionality"). In case you were wondering.

I’m very much looking forward to poaching Marshall’s Portland-oriented RWW articles working with Marshall in this new role, and I hope all of you will extend your congratulations to him, as well.

For additional details on Marshall’s move to Read/Write Web, see [Marshall’s blog post](http://marshallk.com/joiningrww "MarshallK is joining Read/Write Web"), the [RWW announcement](http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/marshall_kirkpatrick_joins_readwriteweb.php "RWW hires Marshall Kirkpatrick"), the [SplashCast blog post](http://splashcastmedia.com/my-last-week-at-splashcast-was-an-exciting-one "SplashCast post on Marshall's resignation"), and the growing list of coverage on [Techmeme](http://www.techmeme.com/070914/p2#a070914p2 "Techmeme links to Marshall Kirkpatrick story").