Technical Columnist Chris Matyszczyk – TMO BGM Interview
Chris Matyszczyk is the President of creative consultancy Howard Raucous LLC. He advises corporations and individuals on content creation, advertising and marketing. For the last 13 years, he has also written the Technically Incorrect column first for CNET and now for ZDNet. He also writes the Absurdly Driven column at Inc.
Chris has a witty, irreverent, playful writing style at times. Over the years, several of his articles have caught my attention for my Friday column, Particle Debris, and we chatted about them. Plus, I’ve always wanted to hear his career story and how he got started as a technical columnist. In this interview, you’ll get a sense of Chris’s wry humor, and he’ll keep you laughing the whole show.
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Show Notes
My Background Mode interview with Chris Matyszczyk
- Chris on Twitter.
- Chris's page at ZDNet.
- Chris's page at Inc.
- Discused:"Apple’s iPhone SE isn’t popular because it’s cheap (says Tim Cook)."
- Discused:"2009-2019: How Apple, Google, and friends drove us mad."
- Support TMO when you buy your Apple gear from Apple.
- The story of my Background Mode podcast.
- "Inside TMO’s Background Mode Podcast."
- TMO Background Mode Twitter feed.
- Archive of all Background Mode Shows.
- Background Mode at iTunes.
- Send your comments to [email protected] or [email protected]