There is a strange feeling of satisfaction in reading something that you have written in newsprint. I’m not quite sure what it is, but there is definitely something very special about the experience. When Lewis Harrison of  Codeworks, asked if I fancied having a go at writing the Technotes column for the journal, I wasn’t sure where it would go. That was about a year ago,  I written another four columns since.

Writing for Technotes, is a really interesting experience, the journal has a readership of around 110,000 with 32,859 copies sold a day, 65 % of its readers ar ABC1′s, with 26% aged 55-65,  so its nt an audience i’m used to talking to. You only get 450 words to introduce your subject and get your message across, which can be a bit of a juggling act between making an article accessible to the majority or readers and actually making the point you want to make, but I’ve never been one to back away from a challenge.

Working with Lewis is great, firstly to bounce ideas off about what readers may be interested in, but also from an editorial point of view, seeing what tweaks and changes he makes to my raw material is a great insight, and the man has the patience of a saint when it comes to correcting my grammatical errors.

For those of you that are interested, here are the links to the five columns so far.

Enter the Twittersphere
(no longer online but based on this original blog post)
Apple at risk of neglecting the faithful
Feb 5 2009
Twitter is fulfilling its potential
Mar 12 2009
‘Culture of Free’ has its opponents
May 14 2009
Search for meaningful results
Jun 4 2009
Are we ready for an email upgrade?
Sept 3 2009
Take time to reconnect with reality
Oct 8 2009
Smiles won’t be as wide this year
dec 17 2009
What does future hold for technos?
jan 13 2010
Being smart in the way we use our phones?
April 1 2010
Running free with hi-tech help
April 22 2010

The web widens to become ultimate experience
August 12 2010

It would be great to get some feedback and to hear any views on how we might develop this in the future,  so please leave a comment.