Victor Keegan
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Victor Keegan is a British journalist and author focusing on economics and technology issues. He has spent most of his working life at the The Guardian as reporter, financial correspondent, deputy financial editor, economics editor, business editor, duty editor, Chief Leader Writer, Assistant Editor and Online Editor.
For 11 years he was a member of the Scott Trust, owner of the Guardian, the Observer and other media interests. He now writes a weekly column on the internet and personal technology (see link below) and also writes for Guardian Unlimited's web site and "Comment is Free" blog. He is also curator of the <a href="http://slurl.com/secondlife/Taedong/107/165/136/">SLart Gallery, Second Life</a>
With his colleague, Neil McIntosh, he introduced the Guardian's first blogs (Technology and Games) and in 2001 and 2002 started the first-ever. text message poetry competition. He writes poetry, paints, and takes photographs. He is married to Rosie Keegan and has two sons, Christopher and Daniel.
[edit] Works
- The Guardian Year edited by Victor Keegan (Fourth Estate, 1999) ISBN 1-84115-231-5
- "Crossing the Why" Poems by Victor Keegan (Shakespearesmonkey, 2001) ISBN 0-9540762-0-6
- "Big Bang" Poems by Victor Keegan (Shakespearesmonkey, 2001) ISBN 0-9540762-1-4
- "Best Text Poems" The cream of the Guardian's text message poetry competitions (Edited by Victor Keegan).
[edit] External links
- Guardian columns by Victor Keegan
- http://www.kickaas.typepad.com/kickaas/.html kickAAS site dedicated to abolishing agriculture subsidies
- http://www.shakespearesmonkey.co.uk Billion-year project to randomly generate two lines of a poem (doesn't work on all browsers).
