Victor Keegan

Victor Keegan (born 1940) is a British journalist and author focusing on economics and technology issues. Born in London in 1940, he has spent most of his working life at 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. Until recently he wrote a weekly column on the internet and personal technology (see link below) and contributes to Guardian Unlimited's web site and "Comment is Free" blog. He is also curator of the "SLart Gallery" in Second Life.

With his colleague, Neil McIntosh, he introduced the Guardian's first blogs (Technology and Games). In 2001 he started the first-ever text message poetry competition for the Guardian and in August 2003, kickAAS one of the first dedicated political blogs aimed at helping developing countries by abolishing agriculture subsidies. In 2008 he became chairman of a not-for-profit start up World Film Collective, "'WFC. that encourages youngsters in very poor countries to make and edit films with their mobiles. In 2010 he published two iPhone apps: City Poems which links classic poems to the streets of London that inspired them using satellite links. Geo Poems contains all of the poems in his three books linked by geo-tagging to the people and places around the world that inspired them. A third app released in 2011 uses the phone's geo-loaction feature to take a tour of Shakespeare's London. He also writes poetry, paints using virtual techniques, and takes photographs.

He is married to Rosie Keegan and has two sons, Daniel and Christopher.^{[citation needed]}

Bibliography

• The New Europe (Fourth Estate, 1993) co-edited with Martin Kettle.
• The Guardian Year, 1999 (Fourth Estate, 1999) ISBN 1-84115-231-5 (editor)
• Crossing the Why (Shakespearesmonkey, 2001) ISBN 0-9540762-0-6
• Best Text Poems: The cream of the Guardian's text message poetry competitions (Adlibbed, 2006) ISBN 1-89731-202-4 (editor)
• Big Bang, (Lulu.com) 2007 ISBN 0-9540762-1-4) Poems about the start of life and onwards
• "Remember to Forget" Poems about early life and real life published at Lulu.com (2010) ISBN 978-0-9540762-2-1

External links

• "'victorkeegan.com
• "Guardian" columns by Victor Keegan
• kickAAS site dedicated to abolishing agriculture subsidies
• Shakespearesmonkey a billion-year project to randomly generate two lines of a poem (it doesn't work properly on all browsers)
• Flickr photos
• Chris Keegan
• Second Life lawsuit to test how much jurisdiction courts have over virtual world, a 25 Nov 2008 article from The Telegraph