I actually really enjoyed writing articles for the pulse, and got some good feedback. It was just a very unfriendly system to load those articles up and attach stuff to it that did it in for me.
Sad to hear it wasn't getting the readership it deserved but then again since very few original articles were going up it was a cut and paste from other sites. I think that was really the problem. If the only place to go read that stuff was the pulse then of course it would have been the go to place.