He's also dabbled in proposal writing, though he wouldn't recommend that as a career choice. Be thankful.īetween his ad days and his life as a TechRepublicist, he worked briefly as a Web developer, mostly using (shudder) FrontPage and SQL Server to build rickety and poorly conceived database-driven Web sites.

In a previous life (read: fresh out of college), he was an ad man, toiling away for low pay and less respect as a copywriter and producer of print ads, radio spots, and TV commercials.

Jay is also the diabolical mind behind TechRepublic's Geek Trivia newsletter, a former contributing editor of TR's Geekend blog, and until March of 2008 was a project manager for TR site feature development. It's like Jay without editorial oversight or decent engineering support. To get the real skinny on his wacky business ideas-and his amateurish sci-fi short stories-read his blog,.

The Trivia Geek, known to some by the mysterious alias 'Jay Garmon,' is an online community entrepreneur trying his luck with some promising Internet startups.

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