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The tech journalist starter kit

A friend of a friend just called me, asking for advice on how to become a technology journalist. I promised to send him some links and figured I’d post them here so that I have everything in one place for the next person who asks. If you need some help with your journalism entries, see

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10 signs a content offer is spam

As an editor of a couple of different niche online publications, and a writer for some major tech magazines, I get dozens of unsolicited content offers a day. I can’t ignore them, because I’m always looking for expert sources for the articles I write about cybersecurity and artificial intelligence, and am always looking for guest

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My new computer setup

In case you’re wondering what I’ve been doing with myself now that I’m not blogging about OpenSim as much, here’s an update. First, I’m super busy at my day job. I’m covering artificial intelligence for IDG’s CIO magazine and cybersecurity for CSO. I’ve also been getting my new blog, Upsider, up and running. Today, we

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Five Step Question Meditation

I learned this at a business seminar in Shanghai a few years ago, and no longer remember the source, but it’s proved extremely effective for me. I’m a bit of a perfectionist workaholic, and have been advised repeatedly to balance my life, get in touch with my emotions, and so on and so forth. I

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Dabble Postmortem

Tomorrow is the last day for Dabble DB, an online database services on which I ran my company for the past few years. The migration to other platforms has been painful, to say the least. Several years after Dabble first launched, no other provider comes close to matching Dabble’s price, features, or its amazingly wonderful

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