Last week the Telegraph got in touch, saying please could I write something about iPhone hacks to tie in with the imminent iPhone launch in the UK. Sure, I said, be happy to. Can you do 1200 words, they said. No problem.
The article appeared today: Apple v the iHackers, and it has been cut back [...]
Until recently, most Gawker bloggers were paid a flat rate of $12 per post for twelve posts a day, with quarterly bonuses adding to the bottom line; these bonuses could be used to buy equity in the company, which took two years to vest. Now, Denton is moving to a pay-for-performance system. He has always [...]
The Morning News published a little piece I wrote, about someone whose life was changed by a pivotal moment. I suspect a lot of people have moments like this, that shape their futures. Not many of them are so well defined, and they don’t often get documented. I find people’s descriptions of such moments fascinating.
Jenny [...]
MacUser asked me to write a review of MarsEdit 2:
As blogging matures, so do blogging applications. MarsEdit, originally created alongside NetNewsWire by Brent Simmons, is now under the new ownership of Daniel Jalkut at Red Sweater Software. The result is an injection of fresh blood for MarsEdit. MarsEdit 2 benefits from some helpful interface tweaks [...]
This is hilarious. Someone has bought my old gorjuss.com domain, which I deliberately abandoned, and turned it into a fake online version of me, snappily titled “Thoughts of a Freelancer Writer.” The site’s About page says:
> *I’m a freelance writer called Giles, well not the original Giles, it’s just a pen-name for my scribblings [...]
In what’s turning out to be a busy week for me, [journalism.co.uk](http://www.journalism.co.uk/) has just published my first [article](http://www.journalism.co.uk/news/story3447.shtml) for them, about the efforts by Cheltenham Borough Council to use a [blog](http://cheltenhamboroughcouncil.wordpress.com/) as a means of distributing news about the flooding crisis.
The web team there certainly seems to be more web-savvy than most. They’ve been using [...]
> *My [article](http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/6924022.stm) about the [Open Library](http://demo.openlibrary.org) for the BBC was limited to 800 words, so I didn’t have room for a lot of the interesting stuff that Aaron Swartz and I talked about during our interview. Among those things: the “new kind of wiki” being used by OL is based on Aaron’s old [Infogami](http://infogami.com/) [...]
Quite a lot of work is hovering in the possibly zone right now. I’ve been talking to people about various work-related gigs, and I’m waiting to hear back from some, waiting to sign contracts on others, and waiting for other projects to move from planning stage to things-happening stage.
Some of it is quite exciting; looking [...]
If you’re someone who writes articles about computers for a living, you might recognise a feeling I can only describe as “screenshot anxiety”.
It crops up every time I have to file a story which includes a bunch of screenshot illustrations. Before sending to the editor, I have to open each screenshot one more time and [...]
Some weeks ago, during the preparation of my Indie in the UK article for O’Reilly, I found myself wanting to interview a whole bunch of software developers.
I was very keen to conduct it in the manner of a group discussion - I didn’t just want to ask the questions, I wanted each participant to raise [...]
