Professional Biography
I'm the editor and site director of ZDNet.co.uk, which means a) that I'm responsible for the editorial and product strategy of the site, and b) that if you see something you don't like here, you should let me know. If you don't see something you would like to see, you should also let me know.
I've been writing about tech since the 386 and programming and breaking it for somewhat longer. Previous jobs include reporting on the dot-com boom from San Francisco for a horribly short year and a half, and several years running a newspaper in Papua New Guniea. That was a great job.
Some great things about my current job:
I don't have to do my own stevedoring
I don't get malaria
I don't get shipwrecked
I don't get guns pulled on me (by government ministers or anybody else)
I do get paid to build websites like this
I do get paid to play with, learn about and write about technology
How great is that ?
Oh yes, and I chair and moderate conferences; I'm a founding co-chair of the CNET UK Business Technology Awards; sit on several other awards panels; and apparently am number 44 in the UK Press Gazette list of the New Media Establishment. Now I know when I draw up lists of 50 things that whatever goes at number 44 is usually a filler, but it's a nice thought nonetheless.
Interests
Number of Interests: 22
- Notebooks
- Monitors
- PC/Desktops
- Peripheral
- Processors/Components
- Printers/Scanners/Mult...
- Consumables
- Client Storage
- Office Productivity Ap...
- Desktop Operating Systems
- Creativity Software
- Application Development
- Business Intelligence
- Content Management Sys...
- Enterprise Resource Pl...
- Customer Relationship ...
- Financials
- Middleware
- Data Management/Database
- Mail & Messaging
Discussions
Number of Discussions: 50
- Upload your own avatars to ZDNet Community 01/05/08
- Upload your own avatars to ZDNet Community 01/05/08
- Security is moving beyond the perimeter 17/04/08
- Calculator Looking Number Generator from the... 04/04/08
- Why SSD makers don't talk SSDs up 26/03/08
- Vista SP1 - No Go for Me at the Moment 20/03/08
- Vista SP1 - No Go for Me at the Moment 20/03/08
- Microsoft: The difference this time is that... 22/02/08
Blog
Number of Posts: 48
- Upload your own avatars to ZDNet Community 25/04/08
- The real way to pronounce MySQL (it's not wha... 25/04/08
- I will blog, despite Vista's best efforts 20/03/08
- Google Gadgets test 20/03/08
- Teleworking: Truly green or just naive? 13/03/08
- Why SSD makers don't talk SSDs up 06/03/08
- Looking for a new job? ZDNet might be able to... 22/02/08
- Microsoft: The difference this time is that... 21/02/08
