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“Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.”
João Tomé
Journalist by training, data editor and storyteller by trade.
I turn Internet data into stories, conversations, and tools people can explore.
Now an Internet Data Research Editor at IPinfo, since August 2026. Previously at Cloudflare, from 2021 to July 2026, following almost two decades in Portuguese journalism.
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Latest Writing
From IPinfo, Cloudflare Blog, Substack, Medium, and a Portuguese journalism archive.
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Digger: when exaggeration is the answer to catastrophe
SubstackOct 2026
PHP2Shell: universidades, câmaras e Estado com servidores em versões (ainda) sem correçãoNewspapers
SAPO TEK · OpinionNewspapersOct 2026
Two weeks of earthquakes, Internet routes and fridges
SubstackOct 2026
RPKI Now Protects 70% of Internet Routes, Up From 54% a Year Ago
IPinfoOct 2026
How the Internet got 32-bit addresses, as explained by Vint Cerf
SubstackSep 2026
The United States of Walmart, According to WiFi Data
IPinfoSep 2026
From the Cloudflare Blog
Popular writing
A top five selected from my Cloudflare Blog writing, including Offline Celebrations, Total Eclipse of the Internet and Typo Traps. Show more for the extended list.
Offline celebrations: how Christmas, NYE, and Lunar New Year festivities shape online behavior
CloudflareFeb 2025
Total eclipse of the Internet: traffic impacts in Mexico, the US, and Canada
CloudflareApr 2024
Typo traps: analyzing traffic to exmaple.com (or is it example.com?)
CloudflareSep 2023
The crawl-to-click gap: Cloudflare data on AI bots, training, and referrals
CloudflareAug 2025
From Googlebot to GPTBot: who's crawling your site in 2025
CloudflareJul 2025
Data stories
Explore the world through interactive maps, charts and evidence.
Explore the collectionHappening · an experiment
Discover nearby places and stories through Wikipedia.
Projects
Selected projects across podcasts, data storytelling, editorial products, and experiments.
Future Stories
An independent publication and podcast exploring systems, technology, science, infrastructure, and institutions, with Europe as a recurring lens.
PublicationPodcastInternet & Society
This Week in NET
Cloudflare's weekly show on Internet trends, security, and technology. 200+ episodes, produced and hosted from 2022 to 2026.
PodcastEditorialCloudflare
Made in Tech
Portuguese-language tech podcast covering innovation, careers, and the Internet. Co-hosted with Dinheiro Vivo, reaching thousands of listeners in Portugal.
PodcastPortuguese
2026 Eclipse Internet Traffic Tracker
An interactive analysis of Internet traffic during the 12 August 2026 total solar eclipse, using country and regional Cloudflare Radar data.
Data StorytellingCloudflare RadarInternet Traffic
Are summer nights getting warmer?
A city-by-city comparison of May–August 2026 temperatures, overnight minimums, and historical baselines across Europe and North America.
Data StorytellingClimateInteractive Dashboard
Europe online, Europe together?
A historical comparison of online social-network use and weekly social contact by age, using Eurostat and European Social Survey data.
Data StorytellingSocial ResearchInteractive Dashboard
World Cup 2026 Dashboard
Explore World Cup squads, player ages, heights, market values, club representation, coaches and tournament fixtures.
Data StorytellingFootballInteractive Dashboard
Time Capsule
A site for writing messages meant for the future — exploring memory, privacy, and delayed communication.
CreativeEditorial
Casa Magia
A Harry Potter-themed site of book covers and games — a creative project made for my kid.
CreativeFamily
Daily Brief
A daily briefing of ideas, stories, and useful links about the Internet, technology, and the world.
BriefingEditorialInternet
Notes & conversations
X/Twitter · @emot
Saved selection from 21 October 2026. Live feed currently unavailable.
This Week in NET
Cloudflare's weekly show on Internet trends, AI, security, and technology, produced and hosted from 2022 to 2026. thisweekinnet.com
Selected conversations
Cloudflare Turns 15: The Origin Story with Michelle Zatlyn & Matthew Prince
Sep 22, 20257.8K views
Rebuilding Next.js with AI in One Week: 4x Faster Builds (vinext Explained)
Feb 27, 20263.6K views
Why the Internet Works (Most of the Time): A Conversation with Tom Strickx
Nov 7, 20256.2K views
AI, Creators & Agentic Commerce — A Conversation with Cloudflare CSO Stephanie Cohen
Dec 4, 20253.5K views
A bit of Cloudflare history and future with John Graham-Cumming
Jul 25, 20251.6K views
The Internet Now & Then with Internet Pioneer Geoff Huston
May 16, 20251.9K views
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Professional Journey
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Internet Data Research Editor
IPinfo
Aug 2026 - Present
Researching and telling stories about how the Internet is changing through IPinfo's data, combining data analysis, visualization, and storytelling across IP geolocation, network infrastructure, privacy, security, and other Internet datasets.
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Sr. Data Editor, Writer, Storyteller
Cloudflare
2021 - Jul 2026
Led data analysis and storytelling initiatives focused on Internet technology trends. Product Manager of the Internet trends project Radar Display. Hosted and produced the show/podcast "This Week in NET", from 2022 to 2026. Wrote 80+ posts for The Cloudflare Blog.
Podcaster
Made in Tech
2020 - 2023
Hosting and producing a podcast focused on technology's impact on society, featuring interviews with notable figures in tech and science.
Website coordinator and Editor
Dinheiro Vivo
2017 - 2021
Editor of the related tech magazine publication DN Insider. Coordinated the business and tech news website, managed its social media, and led multimedia content production.
Journalist at the TV show Volante
SIC
2011 - 2016
Host, journalist reviewer of cars and motorcycles for the TV show of SIC Notícias, Volante.
Freelance Journalist
Notícias Magazine, Sábado magazine, Must magazine
2008 - 2020
Contributed feature articles with interviews of well-known cinema and TV actors and directors; wrote about technology, gadgets, and innovation; and did cinema reviews.
Editor
Destak Portugal
2004 - 2016
Led the Sports, Cinema, Automotive, and Technology sections at Destak Portugal, producing reviews, interviews, and reports, managing digital platforms — while collaborating on external projects, including a TV show (SIC).
A thought for today
One idea. One moment in history.
A daily pairing from science, technology, culture, history and the arts.
On this day
1952
1952 Severo-Kurilsk earthquake
An earthquake struck the Kamchatka Peninsula, triggering a major tsunami that affected the Kuril Islands and other parts of the Pacific Ocean.
Wikimedia On This Day · CC BY-SA 4.0
From Focus & Life, a knowledge library I built.
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Cloudflare Radar Display
Conceived and led as Product Manager and Data Editor — a real-time globe experience visualizing how the Internet behaves worldwide. It shows traffic patterns, outages, AI trends, attacks, connection quality, and the most popular Internet services by country.
Featured on large touchscreens at Cloudflare offices in San Francisco, Austin, London, Lisbon, Singapore, and New York, and at events and partner venues worldwide.
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Email Me
For professional inquiries or collaboration opportunities, feel free to send me an email.
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— Journalist at heart. Creator of ideas. Explorer. It's all about passion — and it's been that way since the 1980s.
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(Where quotes, loose thoughts, and messy experiments live.)
Interviewing Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince for This Week in NET — talking about AI, Cloudflare's history, and what's ahead.
Lisbon office, September 2024 [Watch on YouTube]
Earthrise — Apollo 8, December 24, 1968
Twitter works in mysterious ways 😇
View post ↗@ipinfo's ping scan sees the same drop on AS41039 (Timer LLC): about 96% of its usual addresses went silent from 22:00 to 04:30 UTC. It dropped again from 07:10 to 08:00 UTC and is still not fully back. Ugletelecom, the operator named in the reports, stayed up throughout.
View post ↗Update: #Google says a power event in one of its three London zones caused it. One zone in one city, and banking apps and other UK services that rely on it had problems for hours. Much of what we use every day runs on a few cloud regions.
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