Professional Biography
Hello, I'm the Reviews Editor at ZDNet UK.
My experience with computers started at London's Imperial College, where I studied Zoology and then Environmental Technology. This was sufficiently long ago (mid-1970s) that Fortran, IBM punched-card machines and mainframes were involved, followed by green-screen terminals and eventually the first stirrings of the personal computer revolution.
My initial journalistic forays included helping to produce a desktop-published weekly news magazine based in Amsterdam in the mid-1980s. Interesting times, which included setting up data communications links with technologically-challenged 'stringers' in a number of European cities via a 300-baud modem and an acoustic coupler.
I've been in computer publishing since the late 1980s, starting with Reed Business Publishing's Practical Computing, then joining Ziff Davis in 1991 to help launch PC Magazine UK as Production Editor. After a couple of years I switched to commissioning, editing and writing, becoming a Technical Editor and then First Looks Editor.
When ZDNet came looking for a Reviews Editor in 2000, I was ready to make the move from print to online — just in time for the dot-com crash! It's been a long road from punched cards to 'Web 2.0', but it'll still be fun seeing where we go from here.
Interests
Number of Interests: 54
- 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
- Enterprise Resource Pl...
- Customer Relationship ...
- Financials
- Middleware
- Data Management/Database
- Recycling
- Mail & Messaging
Discussions
Number of Discussions: 49
- Apple 3G S fetishists - your number is up 19/06/09
- More on geomagnetic storms 27/04/09
- Forgot your phone? Remember this formula... 16/04/09
- For reference... 11/02/09
- Lucky Jim 10/02/09
- That $20 (or $10, or $30) laptop 06/02/09
- Dancing girls! Parrots! Knots! Orange Partner... 15/12/08
- Full review coming... 12/11/08
Blog
Number of Posts: 84
- Zoho socialises Projects 2.0 01/07/09
- Samsung unpacks OLED but no Android 16/06/09
- COOL-ER: a home-grown e-book reader 29/05/09
- Firefox 3.5 RC1 on track for early June 15/05/09
- Interesting times for OpenOffice 24/04/09
- Low Power Computing: African results 22/04/09
- Drobo Pro: a 'data robot' for SMEs 07/04/09
- Samsung's stylish N310 netbook 23/03/09
Reviews
Number of Reviews: 0
Links
Number of Links: 0
