{"id":5909,"date":"2011-01-20T17:39:56","date_gmt":"2011-01-20T23:39:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.redmonk.com\/cote\/2011\/01\/20\/gearmonk\/"},"modified":"2011-01-20T17:39:56","modified_gmt":"2011-01-20T23:39:56","slug":"gearmonk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/2011\/01\/20\/gearmonk\/","title":{"rendered":"GearMonk!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In case you haven&#8217;t noticed it in Twitter, we&#8217;ve started a new RedMonk blog to go over all the gadgets, services, gear, and (my favorite) practices and &#8220;how people work&#8221; items we come across at RedMonk. There&#8217;s not a blizzard of posts up there &#8211; it&#8217;s not our primary focus, after all &#8211; but as things come up, we&#8217;ve been pretty good about putting up reviews and overviews.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s some highlights so far:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/redmonk.com\/gearmonk\/2010\/12\/28\/cr-48\/\">Google\u2019s Cr-48: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly<\/a> &#8211; Stephen&#8217;s review of the Google Laptop, the Cr-48. He gets all the good stuff!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/redmonk.com\/gearmonk\/2011\/01\/04\/att-microcell\/\">AT&amp;T MicroCell<\/a> &#8211; for $100, I solved the terrible iPhone service at my home.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/redmonk.com\/gearmonk\/2011\/01\/07\/tools-and-practices-for-working-virtually\/\">Tools and practices for working virtually<\/a> &#8211; my wrap-up of the way RedMonk, a very &#8220;virtual company&#8221; works (and doesn&#8217;t &#8220;work&#8221;). This has been our most popular post so far.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/redmonk.com\/gearmonk\/2011\/01\/20\/clear\/\">8 months of using Clear 4G and 3G wireless broadband<\/a> &#8211;  just published, this is my write-up of using Clear for my office and on-the-road Internet, including 8 months of speed tests and several different pieces of equipment.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Our future reviews include the iPad for work and travel, Windows Phone 7 (Samsung Focus), some sort of whacky keyboards made here in Austin (and other devices on display during SXSW), and other gadgets and gizmos we&#8217;ve been testing out. I try to wait until I&#8217;ve used a device for a month or more before reviewing it to get a real feel for it, so my reviews aren&#8217;t always timely. Also, I&#8217;m a huge personal fan of the &#8220;what&#8217;s in your bag?&#8221; and <a href=\"http:\/\/usesthis.com\/\">&#8220;what stuff do you use?&#8221;<\/a> interview formats which I hope to be doing soon.<\/p>\n<p>One of our goals is to &#8220;review&#8221; anything that might be interesting to the RedMonk Community, not just computer crap. As such, there&#8217;s, uh, <a href=\"http:\/\/redmonk.com\/gearmonk\/2011\/01\/05\/tealattes\/\">&#8220;lighter&#8221; stuff like this taste test between two types of tea latt&eacute;&#8217;s<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve got ideas for &#8220;gear&#8221; to review, send them along &#8211; we&#8217;ll see what we can do.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re interested, your best bet is to subscribe to <a href=\"http:\/\/redmonk.com\/gearmonk\/feed\/\">the full RSS feed<\/a> (along with all the other RedMonk ones, right?) to get updates as they come in, or just check it out at <a href=\"http:\/\/redmonk.com\/gearmonk\/\">http:\/\/RedMonk.com\/GearMonk\/<\/a>. (We have a <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/gearmonk\">Twitter account, @GearMonk,<\/a> but we haven&#8217;t wired it up yet.)<\/p>\n<p><b>Disclosure:<\/b> some of these things we&#8217;ve purchased, others have been given to us as review units, and some come from clients.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new RedMonk blog reviewing gear and tech-life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","category-redmonk"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5909\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}