Joseph Robert Lewisis a writer. He’s not your local Starbucks writer in hipster clothes, staring lovingly at his Macbook Pro and failing to break 100 words a day. He’s a professional. His experience includes years of writing and editing in the book publishing industry and in online publishing. He’s capable of hammering out book after book without blinking. Right now, you can purchase five of Lewis’fictionsand his tome onpresentationsdigitally. But it wasn’t always like that....

Joshua Smiberthas never been a stranger to the entrepreneurial spirit. Born and raised in Melbourne, Australia he watched his father, the sales director for a national security company constantly working on side ventures while he was growing up, and finally leaving the corporate world for a startup. It was his father who taught Smibert to think entrepreneurially, and he caught the bug early on. He started a number of ventures from badge sales to an office cleaning service, and it wouldn’t be a stretch to say he had experience as an entrepreneur before he graduated from high school....

Now that things have calmed down after the Mobile World Congress, the word has started to come out that a number of technology blogs had their trips to Barcelona sponsored. That means that certain companies paid for (depending on the case in point) airfare, hotels and/or food in order to get someone on the ground at MWC. To set the stage for you, it needs to be stated that this is not uncommon practice....

An Australian journalist has beenquestionedby Queensland Police after hepublisheda story about a security flaw on Facebook. Ben Grubb, Deputy Technology Editor at the Sydney Morning Herald, The Age and the Brisbane Times, was questioned by cops after covering theAusCERT IT security conferencein Surfers Paradise. It’s not entirely clear why Grubb was arrested yet. The piece he published centred on a rather bizarre story regarding two security experts that were speaking at the conference....

Journalists, climate crisis isn’t a topic up for debate False balance and distortions Back in 2007,researchers from Oxford University highlightedthe barriers to accurate and consistent coverage of the climate crisis. [Read:Are EVs too expensive? Here are 5 common myths, debunked] One of the key messages of their report was that sometimes coverage is poor not because of an intentional distortion by the media, but because of a clash between journalistic values and the need to tell the truth about the climate crisis....