I am a technology journalist with three decades of press experience. Primarily I work as a news analysis writer dedicated to a software application development 'beat'. I have spent much of the last twenty years focusing on open source, analytics & data science, cloud computing, mobile devices & data management. I have an extensive background in communications starting in print media, newspapers and also television. If anything, this gives me enough hours of cynical world-weary experience to separate the spin from the substance, even when the products are shiny and new.