ICYMI: SMK at SdXCentral
March 13, 2023
5:24 pm
Sean Michael Kerner now writes for SdXCentral… watch for his copy soon.
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Cheat Sheet: Devops Targets
September 26, 2022
5:42 pm
We’ve done a few cheat sheets on aspects of devops, but never one that focused on core devops news and trends. This is the one you’ve been waiting for — 21 names listed in “audience descending order.”
Cheat Sheet: Managing Coders & Engineers
May 12, 2022
9:33 am
Who writes about the fine art of managing techies — programmers, coders and engineers? We turned out 10 suspects, most of whom toil for small web audiences. Nonetheless, these are some of the folks whose words technical workers read and respect.
Q&A: Adrian Bridgwater, contributor
April 20, 2022
2:53 pm
Focused on developers and data, B2B tech edit freelancer Adrian Bridgwater writes for UK-based ComputerWeekly, Enterprise Networking Planet, eWeek UK, Forbes and IDG Connect.
Cheat Sheet: No Code/Low Code Targets
January 23, 2022
12:28 pm
Here are 11 targets who cover no code/low code at least occasionally. There’s a lot of overlap with more general devops reporters. There’s a good mix of Tier 1 and trades.
Cheat Sheet: MLOps
October 18, 2021
5:34 am
Here’s a baker’s dozen’s worth of targets who cover MLOps, where machine learning meets app development. You’ll see that we’ve rounded up the usual suspects, with a couple of exceptions.
Cheat Sheet: Kubernetes Reporters
June 15, 2021
3:17 pm
Lots of targets to choose from, with multiple names in a single title. In this cheat sheet, we debut the appearance of traffic numbers from SimilarWeb. We also present the targets in descending order, based on the size of their audience.
Cheat Sheet: MLOps
September 10, 2019
10:20 am
Machine learning is transforming a whole lot and devops is no exception. Here’s a cheat sheet on edit specialists in the field.
Profile: Sean Michael Kerner, freelancer
July 15, 2019
10:52 pm
Sean Michael Kerner is a B2B tech reporter, and according to his LinkedIn profile, is an “Internet consultant, a strategy and developer/writer and sometimes entrepreneur.” While Sean no longer writes for eWeek, he recently picked up freelance work at Business Insider and still writes for Enterprise Networking Planet, eSecurity Planet, ServerWatch and ITPro Today.
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TechCrunch Layoffs
January 15, 2025
Less than ten individuals were impacted, says a Jan. 15 report in Business Insider. Monitor Fridge Notes for the names as they become known.
‘Bloomberg Tech’ Now Open for Registration
January 6, 2025
Registration is now open for the ‘Bloomberg Tech’ F2F event, being held Jun. 4-5 in San Francisco. With the current early-bird discount, a ticket runs $1,500. There is no better way to build relationships with Bloomberg’s notoriously elusive tech reporters.
Congress to Investigate the Omnicom-IPG Deal
December 20, 2024
Well, for now it’s Jim Jordan… but such news illustrates the kind of world we seem to be headed for. Adweek has the details, subscription required.
SWMS Predictions for 2025
December 10, 2024
No “predictions” post will appear on this site. That said, quite a number of subscribers have asked for a Zoom/MS Teams presentation on what 2025 will bring. A conversation is precisely the right tool for the job. After the election — and with AI transforming publishing and life — “2025” is best discussed among peers, not predicted. So if you’d like to have a confidential group exchange on what stands to unfold, and why, and how comms pros can come out on top in spite of it all, drop a line and we shall schedule something.
Talk About Confidentiality…
December 10, 2024
According to Adweek, Omnicom CEO John Wren and IPG CEO Philippe Krakowsky were in merger talks for eleven and a half months before the transaction was announced this week. Amazing that it didn’t leak.
Introducing ‘SWMS Sound Thinking’
November 22, 2024
Should PR pros stop visiting X, with all its lies and hate? It’s only going to get worse. Or are tidbits from targets too important to walk away from? Click here to watch tech edit vet David Strom and I disagree (at high speed) about this, as one compelling visual after another pops up on your screen. In 2025, SWMS will officially launch “SWMS Sound Thinking,” designed to be “argumentative insight in six minutes or less.” Each segment will explore a timely and controversial topic of interest to tech comms pros. This prototype runs 5:25. Hope you enjoy it — feedback vital and welcome! –Sam