It's been a long two months since I've entered ye olde blogosphere, and that's usually a sign that things have been busy. Life has indeed become much busier now that I have a real job and a real girlfriend and (in general) a real life. I started blogging at the start of the year as a way to channel my energy when I was a little unemployed. That worked and I think it helped me get back into the groove of writing. That has proved quite useful now as I essentially work for a magazine.
In my job we traffic knowledge. We collect it, shake it down, and then pass it on for a cash fee. Information is a big business. This is shown that my company has recently been taken over by an American company, iSuppli. iSuppli do more hardware and systems stuff than our content based business and they are frequently quoted in the tech media for their "tear down" service where they work out the cost of manufacturing of various devices. That takeover went through formally last Friday. A matter of hours later, iSuppli were themselves (ourselves?) taken over by a very large public company; IHS. IHS have a billion dollar business in information. Scientia potentia est.
I've also crossed a personal milestone recently. Since I started work I've been reading various tech news feeds in order to keep up the happenings in the mobile world. In the three and a half months I have read over 10,000 news items. I've also attended my first analyst briefing; an interesting insight into the way other anlysts operate and of course the obligatory networking. After all who you know is about as important as what you know. In every way; scientia potentia est.
