I’m Rob Minto, and this is my personal website or blog.
Job
I am writer/editor on the Financial Times emerging markets desk, which produces the blog beyondbrics. Until early September 2011 I was the FT’s interactive editor (in charge of multimedia content i.e. blogs, audio and podcasts, interactive graphics and data visualisations) a job I did from 2006. I’ve been at the FT since 2004, and as well as two stints as interactive editor I was technology correspondent in 2008-09. Basically I’m a geek journalist.
This site
I write about stuff I’m interested in. Not what I think you are interested in – that would make this a business, and I would then charge either advertisers to sell to you, or you to read it, or both. What I am interested in might not interest you, but that’s ok. If it does, great. That’s a blog.
This site also has my old-ish sportonomics blog, written frequently until I had two small children and never found the time.
It also has pages with details of my FT articles, and presentations that I have given at various conferences.
The picture at the top
The strange picture of me at the top was taken by my (then) girlfriend (now wife) Jo in Florence in 2006. She said she wanted to take a picture of me at the top of the cathedral, and that I had to lean forward so she could get both me and the view in the picture. There was a wire barrier in the way, but she insisted it would work. What she took instead was a very painful picture of me pressing my face against a metal mesh. She thought it was very funny, and I realised it probably was too, once the red marks had died down. Anyway, it’s me, but not in a normal pose, and I quite like that. Normal can be a bit dull.
