Guardian Technology – Rest in Bits

At the end of 2009 a publication that has an important significance in my own life will fold. Guardian Technology (previously Online, etc) will be published in print form for the final time on December 14th.
The section has been important to my career because I found two jobs through the paper, although tellingly, the second of which was way back in 1996. It’s the demise of technology job advertising in the printed media that has brought the end to a tech-sector dedicated section in the paper… Ironically because of the almost wholesale shift of IT jobs to the online market. These days I’m an avid reader of the section, but via RSS, so the content doesn’t even drive me to purchase the printed paper (a treat I generally keep for Saturdays).

Quite how the section has been able to limp along without much in the way of advertising in recent years is almost certainly down to the non-profit funding body the Scott Trust. Sadly, times are apparently hard across the whole of the Guardian Media Group, so Technology bites the dust.