This site’s name is Scribent. Scribent is Latin for scribe and literally means “writer”.

I started my career as a lawyer only to discover —after three years— that I hated my job. By coincidence, a local IT trade magazine got interested in a short article I had written on EDP auditing. They asked me if I would write a weekly column for them. I convinced them I was better at writing about publishing technology at large.

That’s how I started my career as an IT journalist. After having written for trade magazines and newspapers for some 10 years, I decided it was time to start my own publishing business. With online publishing costing close to nothing if you know some HTML, CSS and a bit of PHP and Javascript, I decided the web was the best publishing channel for me.

IT Enquirer saw the light of day in 2002 and since then I’ve been busy as a publisher and an analyst specialised in Publishing Technologies, ranging from editorial workflow over XML-based dynamic publishing to multi-channel output.

I have written reports on QuarkXPress, InDesign, Atomik products as well as more general topics such as Unified Communications, Collaboration and how Publishing Workflows function.

I have also written reports on publishing and publishing technologies for large companies like Hewlett-Packard, Quark, Easypress, WoodWing Software, Quasar Technologies, and many more.

My main interest is in how closely current technologies and products match the increasingly complicated cross-media publishing workflow. There are few analysts or journalists who can offer the depth of insight I have developed over the course of 12 years as a journalist specialised in publishing and printing.