From Pakistan to S.F., it's a whole new tech world (CNET News.com)

This is the story I did to compare high-tech USA and Pakistan. This cannot be termed as more of a Injo story but could give you fairly a good idea where Pakistan stands as far as high tech is concerned. Check out the link


http://news.com.com/From+Pakistan+to+S.F.,+its+a+whole+new+tech+world/2100-1041_3-6171019.html?tag=nefd.top

Pictures of Office 2.0 (CNET News.com)

Friday I went to the Under the Radar, "Why does Office 2.0 matter" conference on Microsoft's Mountain View campus, and I was able to shoot some pictures. CNET's blogs from the event shows what's new within office 2.0 tools.

http://news.com.com/2300-1012_3-6170901-1.html?tag=ne.gall.pg

Round up of blogs:

http://news.com.com/A+new+generation+of+office+tools/2009-1012_3-6170034.html

Working without a paycheck (CNET News.com)

Yesterday I posted a story on our workplace blog about an innovative way of recruiting people for startups. I meet Max Shapiro, CEO of Peopleconnect that the story is about, at a Clean Tech conference I went to with Michael Kanellos.
This shows how innovation can lead to sucess during hard times such as when the "bubble" burst.

http://news.com.com/2061-10788_3-6170460.html

Intel bridging the distance from doctor to patient (CNET News.com)

Michael Kanellos, the editor-at-large at Cnet asked me to come along to this exhibition at Intel Research Laboratory at Berkeley. At the exhibition Michael talked to some of the researchers and I found this project interesting and I did my first on-camera report for Cnet.com.
This is one innovation, I believe, that would help people living in rural or far flung areas in the developing or under-developed countries.

http://news.com.com/1606-2_3-6170044.html

Salamander robot (CNET News.com)

Harry Fuller, Executive editor at CNETNews.com asked me to do a story on the Salamander Robot. He forwarded me the links from where we can use the Videos. , since this Salamander Robot was created at the Swiss Federal Institute of Tech at Lausanne.
This is one innovation in the field of Biologically inspired robotics that would help lead to a better understanding of biological systems. I talked to one of the creator of this robot through e-mails and got some detailed information like the autonomy of the robot etc.

Salamander Robot story:
http://news.com.com/1606-2_3-6169725.html?tag=ne.video.6164102

How to Sell a Free Computer Game

Icy Tower is the name of one of the world's most popular PC games. The game happens to be produced by a friend of mine, and he just let me know that he soon will bring the game into the mobile world. I mentioned this to the Executive Editor at Spectrum, and he told me to write a blog posting about it. So I did, even though I really don't feel very comfortable with writing about people I know. However, one feature with blogs is that the reader reads them with an insight that the content usually is written with a personal touch.

So, is there anything interesting in the blog post from an innovation journalism perspective? Well, switching from PC to mobile phones is not really anything new. But it is hopefully interesting to know a little about the general game market, as well as to read about the driving forces behind a business idea completely different from the market giants': To give away popular games for free.

http://spectrum.ieee.org/mar07/comments/1741

One story leads to another...

It’s amazing how one article can lead to another. So far, most of the stories I’ve written have been products of previous articles. The most recent example was in S.F. Chronicle, today, Monday.

It started out with an article I wrote a week and a half ago about how HP, NASA and UC Santa Cruz will conduct research together, not least when it comes to nanotechnology. After that article was published I received an e-mail from some PR-people who invited me to the IT Security Entrepreneurs’ Forum at Stanford later that week since I seemed “interested in cooperation between private companies and the government”. I didn’t have the time to go, but got two interviews on phone with a former fighter pilot who now develops flight simulators and a former Secret Service agent.

The article was supposed to run the same day as the conference. Then I got the information that the fighter pilot suddenly got called back to the east coast for some reason and wouldn’t speak at the conference as planned.

Since the better part of the article was focused on him, the whole story was stopped. I had to rewrite some parts of it but finally the article turned up in today’s paper.

Learnings for an injo reporter? Well, if you can, always try to have a back-up interview if you for some reason can’t publish your first interview. And listen when you get a call from some PR-people. Sometimes that actually can lead to a story.
Ralph Hermansson
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2007/03/19/BUG08ON6501.DTL&type=tech