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This isn't a complete list of what I've done, of course, but it is a selection of web-accessible articles and other stuff that indicate what and how I write.
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I did an extended and interesting job for the European Commission a couple of years ago, as rapporteur (secretary/principal author/consultant) to a committee evaluating an entirely typical EC project. Lots of anecdotes to offer, but this is the formal report that resulted |
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I don't write for the Guardian as often as I'd like to (or as often as I think I should). This one offers a dozen low-tech ways to market websites |
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A practical piece about how small businesses can add credit card payment facilities to a website |
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The web is awash with sites for the smaller business, but not many are geared to the individual in a home office. This a selection of my favourites |
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How to buy a laptop ... |
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... and a companion piece on five hot mobile technologies to watch |
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All about online banking for small businesses (even though my name is misspelt) ... |
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... and the companion opinion on how banks make money out of us. Hmm, seems I am writing quite often for the Guardian. |
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A
while ago for a couple of years I wrote a fortnightly column for
IT Week (I alternated with Andrew Orlowski, which is why I didn't
contribute weekly). I had a pretty open brief as 'desktop user
at large', which meant I could lay into just about anything I
chose provided I mentioned computers somewhere in the piece. Here's
a typical example, a rant about the Budget of 1999.
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I
like the magazine Web User, and I contributed several lengthy
pieces before they decided to cut down on the use of freelances.
It was good fun – take a topic, see what the web could do
for you. The website doesn't reprint whole features, instead collecting
the site reviews and listing them; most of the sites on this page
were reviewed by me as part of a 'how to complain online' feature.
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This
is one you'll have to pay for, but hey it's only $5 – an
ebook of 50 Dreamweaver Tips. All great stuff, but don't take
my word for it: unsolicited comments include "Great tips
... immediately took action on three tips … well worth the
$5 … the majority of the tips are very useful". Couldn't
have put it better myself.
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I
don't often get too technical in my writing, but when I do the
subject tends to be Microsoft Windows or Office. Here's a ramble
around Office Smart Tags, what you can do with them, and how to
set them up. It's from the late-lamented techie newsletter PC
Support Advisor, which has a load of my stuff on this site.
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Here's
a similar piece on SharePoint, from the stablemate newsletter
PC Network Advisor.
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Long
ago I had a weekly online column at the Computer Applications
'community' area of the pre-AOL CompuServe for three years, maybe
more. It eventually drove me nuts – the organisation's dilatory
attitude to accounts payable didn't help, but the problem with
writing columns about computers every seven days for three years
is that you eventually start running out of ideas. Or at least
I did. Here's a pre-exhaustion sample.
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Blast from the past: Vic Computing and its successor Commodore User were my first newsstand magazines. Someone bothered to document their progress … |
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