I submitted an article, but failure to receive a response in a timely manner caused me to edit (probably poorly) myself, and just publish it on my blog [I did a

I submitted an article, but failure to receive a response in a timely manner caused me to edit (probably poorly) myself, and just publish it on my blog [I did actually get a positive response after I had already published it, nearly 2 months later]. Peter certainly wasn't working on this full time, so it's completely understandable that there'd be delays, but it's too easy to just publish an article you've written on a blog and get instant gratification. And for that reason, the model that Hacker Monthly uses, seems much, much, much more viable.