Hello, my name is Paulo Querido. I'm a Portuguese journalist and writer.
From 2010 to 1013 I had a daily column at Jornal de Negócios; I wrote for several leading media in Portugal like Expresso, Público and Correio da Manhã.
I did almost everything in newspapers with a typewriter, a phone and a telex machine in the eighties, a CP/M computer and a CompuServe account in the eighties and the Internet in the nineties.
I still do things but the names have changed around us: MacBook Air, PHP, Javascript, Python, Apache, Linux...
I wrote a lot about technology and Internet. I still write, but these days mainly about economics and trends.
Actual Connections
My column at Jornal de Negócios, a leading, economics portuguese newspaper (archive here).
I worked for Belgium television RTL website most of 2012.
I provided web apps and private reports (newsroom intelligence) to Jornal de Negócios, Record and Correio da Manhã.
Technical Skills
- I use mainly PHP and Linux shell scripting. Did Perl in the past.
- At the frontend I am a HTML 5 + Javascript guy.
- Learning Python.
- I can run a server in a few minutes on the Amazon cloud services (AWS, EC2, S3).
- I can tweak a MySQL or an Apache with modest success and be proud of it.
- I can install a Varnish accelerator with simple configuration. It helps.
Milestones
- Bought a Spectrum 48K in 1983. I wrote a BASIC application (we call them "programmes" at the time) to do the math beyond the soccer scores (before we made them by hand with the help of a handheld calculator, every sunday). We reduced the execution time from 3 hours to 20 minutes! It was my first computer-assisted journalism product ;)
- First modem in 1988. 1.200 baud and lots of garbage.
- CompuServe account in 1989.
- First interview via Internet ever published in my country's press (used CompuServe to send questions and receive answers from a portuguese sailor in the middle of the ocean during the Whitbread Ocean Race 1989/90).
- Co-founded a commercial BBS ("A Rede", that means "The Network" in portuguese) circa 1992.
- I wrote the first of five books related to Internet in 1988. It is titled "Homo Conexus".
- Before the dot-com crash I was editor-in-chief of "Recortes", a web-only technology magazine.
- Discovering Perl an Perl/Tk in 2000/2001 was really something!
- In 2003 I rebranded my "webpage" to "blog". In June I started weblog.com.pt, probably the first blogging system made in Portugal.
- 2008 was the year I turned into a journalist-programmer. First web app: OE2009, a stream about the discussion of the portuguese public budget for the next year, combining news, blogs, tweets and delicious bookmarks, with a crowdsourcing component.
More About
Ask Google
“About page” at my blog (in portuguese; includes pictures of my printed books)
See my CV (in portuguese; I still have to translate it to English)
pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paulo_Querido