My life as material – Gusworld Blog

I’ve been milking my life for content since before I was a full-time writer, but there’s no doubt that since I took on the gig as Lifehacker Australia editor last year, it happens even more often. Last week was a good case in point. Early on, I took advantage of attending Kirstyfest to write a post about the neat place card design.

Then I hit the Cheltenham Literature Festival, which not-so-surprisingly coincided with Book Week on Lifehacker. That led to posts on how Ruth Rendell uses a PC, why Eoin Colfer thinks the iPhone is the Hitchhiker’s Guide and Charley Boorman’s travel essentials, as well as a Road Worrier piece on how I coped when my hotel booking went horribly awry.

This week, I’ve been at RSA Conference Europe, which has also produced a bunch of material. For SearchSecurity, I wrote up the emerging threat of information equivalency and the strange threat that LinkedIn can pose. At iTWire, I’ve done pieces on why smart phones are risky but unstoppable and how work laptops could trigger a new wave of cyberfraud.

And of course that’s barely scratching the surface of everything else at Lifehacker:

Will The Kindle Increase E-Book Piracy?

Tropfest 2010 Now Accepting Entries

The Most Useful Firefox Keyboard Shortcuts (Lifehacker 101)

Air Canada Offers BlackBerry App For Check-In

Mobile Phone GPS Rules Still Highly Confusing

iPhone Pizza Apps To Explode Next Month

What Drives Your Choice Of Wi-Fi Versus 3G?

Travel Expense Calculator For Excel

16% Of Australians Use Smart Phones

Would You Buy E-Books From A Bookseller?

Coles Offering 15% Off iTunes Cards