Profile:
Full name: Victor Keegan
Area of interest: Economics, industry, information technology (strategy)
Journals/Organisation: The Guardian
Email: vic.keegan@guardian.co.uk | victor.keegan@gmail.com
Personal website: http://www.victorkeegan.com
Website: http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/victorkeegan
Blog: kickAAS | Shakespeare's Monkey
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Networks: https://twitter.com/#!/vickeegan | http://www.linkedin.com/pub/0/39/277
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Biography:
About:
Education: Wimbledon college; Brasenose College, Oxford University
Career: The Guardian (joined 1963): Northern reporter, Financial correspondent (London), Industrial correspondent, Industrial editor, Deputy financial editor, Business editor, Economics editor, Economics columnist, Chief leader writer, Assistant editor, Online editor (was also a member of the Scott Trust, for 11 years)
Current position/role: Columnist and Leader writer; cif contributor
- also writes/has written for:
Other roles/Main role: Curator of the SLart Gallery in Second Life virtual world
Other activities: Poetry, painting, photography
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Other: Brother of commentator William Keegan; Married to Rosie Keegan - see: Diary of an antique market trader blog
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The Guardian:
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Remit/Info: Internet and personal technology
Section: Technology
Role: Columnist
Pen-name:
Email: vic.keegan@guardian.co.uk
Website: Guardian.co/Technology
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Day published: Thursday
Regularity: Weekly
Column format:
Average length: 650 words
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Articles: 2012
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Articles: 2010
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Articles: 2009
- The iPhone isn't perfect - With most examples of new technology, the owner's desire to be seen at the cutting edge blinds them to admit any faults - 23rd December
- Digital tills are ringing to the sound of an unreal Christmas - Virtual goods are flying off the virtual shelves. It's time we started taking this new market seriously - 18th December
- Technology journalism is hard-wired to embrace change - From BBC computers to tweeting, via the dotcom boom, it's been an interesting 26 years - 17th December
- Mobile phones will come of age in 2010 – and this time I mean it - Look at what they can do: email, GPS, satnav, social networking, camera, video … oh yes, and making phone calls - 10th December
- YouTube: the People's University of the Internet - Education has been slower than other sectors to respond to the digital revolution but through YouTube it is catching up - 3rd December
- Brushes app heralds the digitisation of painting - As with books, music and photography, painting is feeling the winds of digital change - 26th November
- The strange death of illegal downloading - While the government and the music industry posture about illegal filesharing, smaller, smarter companies are simply out-competing it - 19th November
- Can SimplicITy prove itself to technophobes? - A new computer aimed at older people makes IT easier, but the big hurdle will be getting reluctant users to try it in the first place - 12th November
- Why I'm searching beyond Google - Google's power is no longer as a good search engine but as a brand, and increasingly pervasive one - 12th November
- Google, Nokia, Apple – who will win the mobile wars? - Apple's iPhone is still stunning; Nokia is most advanced. Google may yet make its mark with locational-based services - 5th November
- Google Earth beware: the Brits are coming - A backroom team in the UK have built a world map that they hope could become the Wikipedia of a 3D internet - 29th October
- Tell Scottish farmers to clock off - Now the clocks have gone back, we'll all suffer gloomy evenings to keep Scotland happy. It's time to let in the light - 25th October
- The real-world boom in online cities - From Toyko to Helsinki and from Paris to Philadelphia, 3D virtual cities are being built at the pace of 19th-century railway mania - 22nd October
- Camera phones offer snapshot of an era - Mobiles that can take pictures have become almost a vital extension of our lives - 15th October
- Shorter copyright would free creativity - Why hasn't there been a debate about what is good not for the long-term holders of copyrights but for the economy? - 8th October
- UK needs to be more open to open source - The government supports open source software in theory - but it isn't backing up this up in its IT spending decisions - 1st October
- Maths is the bedrock of the digital age - 'Educational' games that engage children in maths could boost the whole economy - 24th September
- How Last.fm inspired a scientific breakthrough - I first saw Mendeley pitch two weeks ago – now it is on the way to changing the face of science - 17th September
- Is virtual boom our industrial revolution? - There are reasons to believe the surging virtual goods market is more a seismic economic change than a passing fad - 10th September
- Sony Reader Touch - Sony's Reader Touch is lighter and faster but still has plenty of competition from the iPhone - 6th September
- I have overdosed on new, brilliant ideas - There is a wealth of innovative business schemes at networks for online entrepreneurs who are defying the recession - 3rd September
- The red phone box still has a future - Giles Gilbert Scott's red telephone kiosk is one of the most beautiful pieces of street furniture ever devised. But what to do with it in the age of the mobile? - 27th August
- A brush with the digital art revolution - New applications, led by Brushes on the iPhone, promise a game-changing approach to painting - 20th August
- If Google and Amazon won't innovate, the rest of us must - Dotcom giants Google and Amazon were once innovative, but have hit the well-worn takeover trail - 13th August
- For digital books, the story's just starting - The publishing industry has handled the digital revolution almost as poorly as the music industry did - 6th August
- Virtual worlds are getting a second life - Second Life and other virtual worlds are not only booming – with membership growing by 39% in the second quarter of this year – but they are also making money - 30th July
- Barcodes – the next net revolution - Japan has woken up to the interactive potential of 2D barcodes, but smartphone manufacturers have been slow to provide support - 23rd July
- Apple's apps are not the only fruit - Applications are propelling mobile phones into a new sphere of creative interactivity - 16th July
- Can Chrome steal Microsoft's shine? - News of Google's operating system will be welcome news for anyone who believes that competition is a force for good - 10th July
- Did Microsoft force Asus to axe Linux? - Microsoft is right to warn about the danger of a serious monopoly in search because of Google's dominance - 9th July
- Nokia's N97 brings a clash of two cultures - Smartphones are booming – even in the middle of a recession – but their design and functionality can differ remarkably - 2nd July
- Here is the news: get ready to pay for it - Newspapers have a glorious past, but do they have a future - 4th June
- Mobile operators must answer the call - If you want to save money during the recession, then look no further than your mobile phone - 28th May
- Music industry must change the record - It took industry outsiders to create mechanisms to ensure paid-for music has a viable future - 21st May
- A short stroll around my hyperlocal - Pundits say that the new need is for hyperlocal information about what is going on immediately around us - 14th May
- Nokia - soon to come with apps - Why is Apple the midwife for this new industry, and not the Finnish giant that sells nearly 40% of the world's mobiles? - 7th May
- If Africa can cut out banks, why can't we? - Why isn't there a Pirate Bay for banks, where people can send money to each other without having to wait days for it to arrive? - 30th April
- Why mobiles are market of the future - If you look at the three arms of the digital world, it's only the web that has trouble making prices stick - 23rd April
- Should Google run the mobile gateway? - the world's favourite search engine just gets more and more powerful - 16th April
- A new chapter in mobile reading - When Google has scanned the world's books, why would research students need a library? - 9th April
- Mobile operators say no to free calls online - Skype is streets ahead of everyone in web telephony but this could change as there are plenty of 'free' web telephone systems - 2nd April 2009
- Phones are close to cracking the barcode - We should soon be able to do a lot more than just scan in our shopping - 19th March 2009
- Forget the banks; we need fast broadband - Why on earth should data travel halfway around the world at lightning speeds only to slow down as they reach your home? - 12th March 2009
- Can we build a world with open source? - We are often told that the best things in life are free, but few have ever tried to build into a business model - 5th March 2009
- Holograms: coming soon to your front room? - I've done some daft things in my time, but inter viewing someone who wasn't there for the best part of an hour must be in a class of its own - 26th February 2009
- Who needs big business, anyway? - This may be the worst of times to be looking for a job but it is among the best to be starting up on your own - 19th February 2009
- Memory isn't what it used to be - Most of us have a grand mind for forgetting - 12th February 2009
- Digital books should be taken as read - The printed book, supreme for centuries, has even repelled the advances of the digital age. Until now, that is - 5th February 2009
- Is Twitter the perfect way to network? - What have Barack Obama, Andy Murray, Downing Street and Britney Spears got in common? Not a lot. Except they all use twitter as a means of instant communication - 29th January 2009
- The web of human progress revealed - The Genographic project is collecting data about us that not even Google can reach - 22nd January 2009
- The battle to rebuild London has begun - It looks as though we are in for a war of the online capitals - 15th January 2009
- The best rings in life are (almost) free - There is no such thing as a free lunch. But is there such as thing as a free telephone call? - 8th January 2009
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Articles: 2008
- It's getting harder to choose a mobile - The trade-off between complexity and useability is not easily solved, as I have found in looking for a new phone - 18th December 2008
- Games can have a serious role to play - People have been saying for years that computer games need to grow up- and maybe they have - 11th December 2008
- Is it good if Skype becomes a standard? - If this sounds like a plug, so be it. It is difficult to criticise a company that offers free international calls - 4th December 2008
- BBC has a right to be in the local arena - A report says introducing local online video services will have 'a significant negative impact' on commercial providers - 27th November 2008
- How web tools could help the economy - It would help everyone if local authorities actually embraced mySociety's websites - 20th November 2008
- Art, music, gossip - it's (virtually) all there in my parallel universe - a new generation of even easier-to-use cyber worlds is upon us - The Observer, 16th November 2008
- Zopa shows banks how to do it right - the lending site Zopa, doesn't have a government-backed guarantee - unlike high street banks and credit unions. Yet the curious thing is that it is enjoying a boom. In the third quarter new borrowers soared by nearly 50% to 3,700 compared with the previous quarter. Why is this happening - and is it safe? - 13th November 2008
- Snap! Cameraphones keep getting better - 6th November 2008
- Looking back at our fantasy of the future - 30th October 2008
- Some sites for sore eyes to remember - It could be argued that technology is diminishing the experience of going on holiday, but enriching the memory - 23rd October 2008
- Connecting older people to the world - on the huge potential for the IT sector from the over-50 age group, more than half of which do not own a computer - 9th October 2008
- We'll all be citizens of virtual worlds - Virtual worlds are changing fast. Those in the pipeline are more simple to operate and starting to mimic the real world - 2nd October 2008
- A new page in the history of startups - PlasticLogic marks the first major British entry into the e-book market - 25th September 2008
- It's speed the people need - Helping children access the net is great, but the government needs to invest in faster broadband to aid the UK economy - Guardian.co.uk - 23rd September 2008
- TV's future stars will come from the web - 11th September 2008
- Bluetooth proves a standard, 10 years on - 4th September 2008
- Can 3's Skype phone ever be a must-have? - 21st August 2008
- BBC iPlayer success points to the future - 14th August 2008
- Location technology finally finds its feet - Knowing where you are will become more relevant as access to the internet migrates to mobile devices - 24th July 2008
- Google & co want us to read all about it - The new Cybook Gen is so light and thin it fitted into my inside pocket - 17th July 2008
- Virtual worlds take over the online world - 10th July 2008
- Open source calls the tune for phones - The astonishing advance of the mobile phone shows no sign of stopping, despite being the fastest-growing consumer product in history - 3rd July 2008
- Dongles are great ... until you go abroad - 19th June 2008
- I'm searching for Google alternatives - 12th June 2008
- Hello? I'm on the free Wi-Fi bandwagon - 5th June 2008
- Books are thriving despite the internet - 29th May 2008
- In Google we trust - but should we? - 22nd May 2008
- The computer for the people, by the people - 15th May 2008
- Soon, all meetings will be virtual - 8th May 2008
- Soon we'll have a CCTV in our pocket - 24th April 2008
- Corporate dinosaurs kill sites - in a Flickr - 17th April 2008
- Tapping into the developing world - 10th April 2008
- All the world wide web's a stage - 3rd April 2008
- Why piracy is not such a bad thing for music - 27th March 2008
- Creativity shouldn't be limited to finance - 20th March 2008
- Entrepreneurs come out of the webwork - 28th February 2008
- Personalised search is still the holy grail - 21st February 2008
- From global village to a local village - 14th February 2008
- The sound of (free) music - 12th February 2008
- Why the sale of the radio spectrum matters - 7th February 2008
- Microsoft tries to buy way into 21st century - 2nd February 2008
- We'll pay the piper if we like the tune - 31st January 2008
- Making the global village a reality - 24th January 2008
- Social sites develop a social conscience - Online meeting spaces have dominated web news but they're not the only - let alone the most useful - social sites on the block - 17th January 2008
- Satnavs finally start to find their way - 10th January 2008
- Living in a cave could be the way forward - 3rd January 2008
- Poor management - 22nd January
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Articles: 2007
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