{"id":8884,"date":"2014-11-03T13:15:40","date_gmt":"2014-11-03T12:15:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/?p=8884"},"modified":"2014-11-03T13:15:40","modified_gmt":"2014-11-03T12:15:40","slug":"writing-for-the-register","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/8884-writing-for-the-register.html","title":{"rendered":"Writing for The Register"},"content":{"rendered":"

Since the beginning of October I have been working two days a week for The Register<\/a>. I am still freelance for the other three days so also available for other work.<\/p>\n

Why the Register? I have been contributing for some years and there are several things I like about the publication. It is known of course for its attention-grabbing headlines but you will also find solid technical content there; it was one of the first sites to report<\/a> the Linux Shellshock bug, for example, and did so in detail with strong follow-up posts, making the site a good one for admins to follow. There is also a strong developer readership which is good from my perspective. Editorially it is diverse and you will find plenty of different opinions expressed by the staff and contributors, which I consider a strength. Organisationally, The Register is refreshingly unbureaucratic.  <\/p>\n

It reminds me in some ways of the best days of Personal Computer World<\/a>, a famous print magazine which ceased publication in 2009. PCW was a delight because it was not shy about covering small niches as well as mainstream technology, in the days when it had plenty of editorial pages to fill.<\/p>\n

The comments are worth reading too; not all of them, but there are plenty of smart readers. On any specific topic, logic suggests that some of the readers will know more about it than the journalist; you should always glance at the comments.<\/p>\n

The Register is also a well-read site; number 513 in the UK according to Alexa<\/a>, and 2204 in the USA. Judging by Alexa it is seems to be the most popular tech news site in the UK though I am not an expert on web stats.<\/p>\n

I will continue to post here of course, as well as covering hardware, gadgets and audio on http:\/\/gadgets.itwriting.com\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In case you missed it, this is what I came up with in October \u2013 it was a bit more than 2 days a week as it turned out, I am not superhuman:<\/p>\n

Programming Office 365- Hands On with Microsoft’s new APIs<\/a><\/p>\n

Microsoft unwraps new auto data-protection in Office 365 tools<\/a><\/p>\n

Mozilla- Spidermonkey ATE Apple’s JavaScriptCore, THRASHED Google V8<\/a><\/p>\n

Microsoft shows off spanking Win 10 PCs, compute-tastic Azure<\/a><\/p>\n

Happy 2nd birthday, Windows 8 and Surface- Anatomy of a disaster<\/a><\/p>\n

Entity Framework goes ‘code first’ as Microsoft pulls visual design tool<\/a><\/p>\n

Lollipop unwrapped- Chromium WebView will update via Google Play<\/a><\/p>\n

Microsoft and Dell\u2019s cloud in a box- Instant Azure for the data centre<\/a><\/p>\n

Migrate to the cloud and watch your business take flight<\/a><\/p>\n

Docker’s app containers are coming to Windows Server, says Microsoft<\/a><\/p>\n

Sway- Microsoft’s new Office app doesn’t have an Undo function<\/a><\/p>\n

Influential scribe Charles Petzold- How I figured out the Windows API<\/a><\/p>\n

Software gurus- Only developers can defeat mass surveillance<\/a><\/p>\n

Xamarin, IBM lob cross-platform mobile app dev tools at Microsoft coders<\/a><\/p>\n

Windows 10 feedback- ‘Microsoft, please do a deal with Google to use its browser’<\/a><\/p>\n

No tiles, no NAP \u2013 next Windows for data centre looks promising<\/a><\/p>\n

Vanished blog posts- Enterprise gaps- Welcome to Windows 10<\/a><\/p>\n

One Windows- How does that work… and WTF is a Universal App-<\/a><\/p>\n

Windows 10- One for the suits, right Microsoft- Or so one THOUGHT<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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