Registry of Interests
This is a list of my main sources of
income, and of any other work-related benefits, as of 1 October 2011.
I will update this as and when any major changes occur.
My main sources of income are from
writing for Computerworld UK, The H Open and Techdirt. In the past I
have occasionally written for other titles, but not recently, and
given my many commitments I think that is unlikely to change.
I also get paid to give talks, mostly
on free software, intellectual monopolies and digital rights.
I occasionally accept paid-for trips
to attend conferences related to my work; I aim to declare that fact
in any writing that comes out of such visits. In the past (ten to
twenty years ago) I accepted these routinely, as did all journalists.
For the record, the company that invited me most frequently back
then was probably Microsoft....
I am not, and never have been, a
consultant for any company.
As for unpaid positions, I'm on
the Open
Knowledge Foundation Advisory Board, and also on the Advisory
Committee
of the Climate Code Foundation.
I do not own (and have never owned)
any shares except those that might be hidden away in financial
instruments I may have or have had: I have never tried to find out if
there are any, or what they might be. Similarly, I do not have, and
have never had, investments in any company.
I no longer accept freebies in the
form of review software/hardware (though I did a couple of decades
ago when this was standard practice.) I buy all my own computers and
smartphones at full price (luckily, the software comes free...)
I very occasionally receive free
review copies of books on areas I'm interested in, but I'm trying to
discourage this since I never have time to write the reviews (er,
sorry about that.)
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