Data Centers, IoT and Connecting the Dots
As a tech writer working mostly incognito on behalf a range of companies, I can identify myself much less often than I could when working as a journalist. Ghost writers under NDAs don’t have bylines. Two recent projects, however, bear my name. In one case, I wrote a position paper about advanced data centers. In another, I co-authored an article about the Internet of Things (IoT) for a specialized trade journal. (See “IoT and Elevators,” p. 166.) Both projects allowed me to do some of what I like best: connecting the dots between trends,...
read moreGoing to IBC – or Not?
It’s been several years since I last attended IBC. Registering late, I found a hotel in Zandvoort, a town on the North Sea about 30 km west of Amsterdam and the RAI Convention Center, where I spent a few days with colleagues at the online publication Videonet. A busy event for some 55,000 video pros, IBC is not nearly as crazed as CES, which draws more than three times as many people. But it’s still intense, especially for the trade journalists who cover it. John Moulding, editor of Videonet, does it well, including useful pre-event...
read moreJ Tombes Consulting Rebrands, Launches Website
Midlothian, VA., August 31, 2015 — After five years in business, J Tombes Consulting has rebranded, incorporating as JT Consulting, LLC, and launched a website to highlight the firm’s technology writing services. The editorial consulting business, a sole proprietorship founded by former trade journal editor Jonathan Tombes, opened in 2010. Apart from a quiet period of 18 months, when Tombes directed content marketing for a Software as a Service (SaaS) engineering firm, it has been in active operation. Over the past five years, dozens of...
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