John Naughton

Profile: Full name: John Naughton Area of interest: Internet and computers Journals/Organisation: The Observer Email: j.j.naughton@open.ac.uk Personal website: Website: http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/johnnaughton Blogs: Memex 1.1 - John Naughton’s online diary Representation: Networks: http://twitter.com/jjn1 | http://uk.linkedin.com/in/naughtonj

Biography: About: Control engineer with a strong interest in systems analysis and computer networks Education: University College, Cork; Emmanuel College, Cambridge. Career: biography (Open University) Academia: Professor of the Public Understanding of Technology at the Open University Fellow of Wolfson College, Cambridge and Director of the Wolfson Press Fellowship Programme Industry: Previous non-exec Chairman of One World International Non-executive Chairman of RAB-eye, a think tank set up by the Radio Advertising Bureau to help the advertising and radio industries think through the implications of digital technology Founding partner of Ellipsian, a Cambridge-based ideas factory Founding partner of Ndiyo project for sustainable and affordable IT Journalistic career: The Observer: Television Critic, Internet columnist Current position/role: columnist also writes/written for: Other roles/Main role: Professor of the Public Understanding of Technology Other activities: photography - flickr.com Disclosures: Viewpoints/Insight: About me - Occasionally Asked Questions O.U. inaugural lecture: Naughton tells it like it is (audio/video/PDF) Quote: "HL Mencken once said that the function of journalism was 'to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable'. I like to see both done well." Broadcast media: Video: Controversy/Criticism: Awards/Honours: voted TV Critic of the Year three times Scoops: Other:

Books & Debate: File:John Naughton a brief history of the internet.jpg A brief history of the future: the origins of the internet (1999) OCLC 185678312 (A Brief History homepage) Authored Open University unit: Understanding systems: making sense of complexity Latest work: Speaking/Appearances: gives keynote addresses to industry conferences Debate:

The Observer: Column name: The Networker Remit/Info: The Internet Section: Business News & Features Role: Columnist Pen-name: Email: john.naughton@observer.co.uk Personal website: Website: http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/johnnaughton Commissioning editor: Day published: Sunday Regularity: Weekly Column format: Average length:

Articles: 2009 Battle lines are drawn for the war of web search dominance - 16th August 2009 So did Apple and AT&T gang up to gag Google Voice? - 9th August 2009 Apple hands Palm a problem and gets slapped by Microsoft - Microsoft's next offensive suggests that the company still has a thing or two to learn about strategy - 19th July 2009 Why the world's most powerful computer may be useless - We may be moving to a world powered by a small number of megacomputers - 15th March 2009 How Amazon's Kindle brought technology to book - Kindle technology looks set to become popular in the UK - 8th March 2009 There's a silver lining to Google's cloud computing glitch - Europeans have been made rudely aware of the term 'outage' - courtesy of Gmail - 1st March 2009 Of course worms can enter the net, that's the whole point - John Naughton on the Stanford project and network security - 22nd February 2009 Need to read between the lines? Microsoft Word can help - At the core of the venture capital business is an exceedingly difficult problem - 15th February 2009 The iPhone Ocarina is the sound of serious money - John Naughton on the rise and rise of iPhone Ocarina - 8th February 2009 Digital rights management isn't music to everyone's ears - Rule number one in ideological warfare is to capture the terms in which the debate is conducted - 1st February 2009 Apple's holier-than-thou attitude may be its salvation - The Obama team are web-savvy, social-networking, Mac-using digital natives - 25th January 2009 Spreadsheets serve as weapons of mass cost destruction - To those who spent their MBAs grinding through manual calculations, VisiCalc offered a glimpse of paradise - 18th January 2009 By reading this, you agree to stop adding useless disclaimers - The practice of appending disclaimers is now so widespread that most of us have become inured to it - 11th January 2009 Slimming down in 2009: laptops, software and upgrades - John Naughton predicts what the year holds for the world of technology, from netbooks to Windows 7 - 4th January 2009

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Links: Writings (John Naughton's website) The Observer 'Footnotes' column archive 1999 / 2004 Wikipedia bio