 Nonfiction Banner  Mackerel: Burying the Fish Wired, never
published Cory Doctorow  This article was a heart-break. It was
commissioned by an editor at Wired, after I told him about some
friends of mine who'd started one of the very first multimedia
firms, spent years looking for a backer, found one, then
everything fell apart. I spend an entire month collecting over a
hundred hours of interviews, reviewing their software, and
writing the thing.  Then the editor quit Wired. I got bounced
from editor to editor for eight months, before they finally
turned it down. I got a nice kill-fee, but sad to say, the
article never saw print. The Mackerlites were pretty pissed --
they all had their hearts set on finally getting some
recognition.   article as a Years before Mackerel Interactive
close its doors forever, it beat out Cosmic Osmo, the precursor
to Myst, at the MacWorld awards. The company, a tiny startup
from frozen, stodgy Toronto, was clearly going somewhere.  Over
the course of its nine-year run, Mackerel e