I wrote a piece for the Times Bricks and Mortar section recently. Not my area of expertise usually, but since you can’t stop me bleating on about how great Crystal Palace is, it had to happen some time.

Crystal Palace Times Article

It’s strange talking about “housing stock” and “local schools”, though I guess it’s not much different from harping on about “storage capability” or “processing power”.

While I was grabbing the link, I found this article from 2005, which I don’t remember ever seeing. I was a bit of a gadget girl rent-a-gob for a while there – until Shiny Shiny writers flooded the market and lady tech writers stopped being such a novelty – and 2005 was a vintage year for flippant Lee-quotage .

For Katie Lee, founder of the female-friendly gadget site Shiny Shiny, laptops mean “I can do all my work in bed, wearing jimjams and eating Hobnobs”

Which is *exactly* what I’m doing right now – right down to the eating Hobnobs part. It’s like my life has come full circle!

I’m like Proust, but 90% more shallow.

Here’s an interview I did with Journalism.co.uk after I left Shiny Media.

In terms of where we went wrong, we’ve certainly made some pretty big mistakes over the years, but with no model to follow over here, I think Shiny is still a pretty impressive success story.

I’ve got some ideas that have been bubbling away quietly in the back of my mind for some time now. I’m going to take a bit of time to work out which to focus on and where to take it and while I’m doing that I’ll keep myself ticking over with a bit of freelance consultancy and some journalism.

It’s about time I did a round up of some of the interviews I did last year:

The Observer – iPhone launch
The Telegraph – Looking beyond the pink and sparkly
The Sun – Colleen’s mobile is “Top WAG Gadget”

I was on TV the other day, chatting to the beguiling Suzi Perry about Gadgets For Girls – something the Gadget Show, which is aimed at 16-34 year old men, has previously ignored.

You can check out screen grabs Gadget Show website, including some particular attractive ones of me lying on the floor, looking embarrassed, with an impressive double chin. It was the camera angle, I tells yer.

I’ve written another piece about moblogging, this time for the Guardian magazine.
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Oh, and I also did a round up of snazzy gadgets at the same time.
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And while I’m on the subject, here’s a link to a piece about a Virtual Beauty pageant by Simon Creasey in which I proffer my opinion.
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I’ve done a couple of podcast type things for Radio One recently for their oneclick/future shows. You can listen to the current one here.

I’ve just done a piece for the latest Blueprint magazine (Oct issue), interviewing the lovely Jason Bruges about his interactive architecture.

“Light work: Jason Bruges is a designer who hopes to change the way we think about architecture through the use of light. Katie Lee finds out what lies behind his illuminating work”

Yep, rent-a-gob strikes again. This time I’ve been spouting off in the Evening Standard, talking about this new-fangled blogging malarkey. The piece isn’t up on the website, but if you click on this pic and then click on the little orange square thing on the bottom right hand corner, you can just about make it out. Incidentally, the interview I did ages ago for the Standard is here.

I had a fun few days last month being interviewed by Polly Vernon for the Observer and getting all dressed up for the photoshoot. You can read the article here.

The Sun interviewed me the other day. Apparently, women are spending on average £634 a year on gadgets. While they were at it, the Sun also got me to pick my top five gadgets for girls. Click here to read