Editing Jerry Pournelle (section)

===Other technical writing===
Pournelle claimed to be the first author to have written a published book contribution using a [[word processor]] on a [[personal computer]], in 1977.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theverge.com/2017/9/9/16279582/jerry-pournelle-science-fiction-author-writing-computers-obituary|title=RIP Jerry Pournelle, the first author to write a novel on a computer|date=September 9, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5gUEDAAAQBAJ&q=Pournelle|title=Track Changes|first=Matthew G.|last=Kirschenbaum|date=May 2, 2016|publisher=Harvard University Press|via=Google Books|isbn=9780674969445}}</ref>

In the 1980s, Pournelle was an editor and columnist for ''Survive'', a [[survivalist]] magazine.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://jerrypournelle.com/reports/jerryp/Survive1.html|title=Notes from a Survival Sage|website=jerrypournelle.com}}</ref> He wrote the monthly column "The Micro Revolution" for ''[[Popular Computing]]'' from April 1984 until the magazine's closure in December 1985. The column focused on the ways microcomputers were reshaping society.<ref>{{cite journal |title=Coming Up |page=222 |volume=3 |issue=5 |date=March 1984 |journal=Popular Computing |publisher=[[McGraw-Hill, Inc.]] }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |title=Micro Revolution |last=Pournelle |first=Jerry  |page=60 |volume=5 |issue=2 |date=December 1985 |journal=Popular Computing |publisher=[[McGraw-Hill, Inc.]]}}</ref>

In 2011, Pournelle joined journalist [[Gina Smith (author)|Gina Smith]], pundit [[John C. Dvorak]], political cartoonist [[Ted Rall]], and several other Byte.com staff reporters to launch an independent tech and political news site, aNewDomain.net<ref>{{cite AV media
 | people = Laporte, Leo; Dvorak, John C.; Silverman, Dwight; Pournelle, Jerry
 | date = 8 January 2012
 | title = This Week in Tech 335 : Is Twitter Worth Doing? ; CES secrets, self publishing, AppleTV strategy, Kodak's decline, walking safely, and more. 
 | url = https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech/episodes/335
 | access-date = 30 January 2019
 | minutes = 7
 | location = [[Petaluma, California]] 
 | publisher = TWiT
 | quote = Are you writing for her, too? I'm working with her. [...] the name of her site is some weird name [...] A new domain
}}</ref>  Pournelle served as director of aNewDomain until his death.<ref>{{cite web|date=30 January 2019|url=http://anewdomain.net/authors/|quote=An award-winning science fiction author, Jerry Pournelle is the best-known columnist in tech journalism history. His BYTE magazine column, Computing at Chaos Manor, was legendary. Now Jerry is our lead commentator at aNewDomain, where he is reprising that column. Email Jerry at Jerry@aNewDomain.net or jerry@jerrypournelle.com and check out his site at jerrypournelle.com.|title=Our Authors}}</ref>

After 1998, Pournelle maintained a website with a daily online journal, "View from Chaos Manor," a blog dating from before the use of that term.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jerrypournelle.com/ |title=Jerry Pournelle's Chaos Manor |publisher=Jerrypournelle.com |date=2011-06-25 |access-date=2017-08-31}}</ref> It is a collection of his "Views" and "Mail" from a large variety of readers. This is a continuation of his 1980s blog-like online journal on [[GEnie]].  He said he resists using the term "blog" because he considered the word ugly, and because he maintained that his "View" is primarily a vehicle for writing rather than a collection of links. In his book ''[[Dave Barry in Cyberspace]]'', humorist [[Dave Barry]] has fun with Pournelle's guru column in ''Byte'' magazine.