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My first job title in the technical communications field was "Technical Editor," and editing has been a large part of my professional life ever since.
I suspect, however, that my appointment as the new Managing Editor of Technically Write has more to do with an experiment I conducted in 1996 as a member of the Internet Professional Interest Committee. The experiment was called "Technically Wired." It took content from the hard copy journal and placed it on the web — a month late — often enhanced with custom graphics supplied by me.
Technically Wired's main fault was that it was a one-person operation, and it got to be too much. Its main virtue was that it was bottomless: there was never a need to sacrifice content to layout. The difference could be profound. One article appeared in hardcopy minus its ending summary, like a court case minus its closing arguments. Technically Wired carried it all.
With the online version of Technically Write, you can be sure of getting the whole story.