I’m in the middle of a pretty intensive hunt for a new flat to rent. We’ve handed in our notice and despite having four weeks left until our move-out date, I’ve been approaching the move with a serious sense of urgency. There have been Excel spreadsheets created, people. Serious stuff. My search has been focused [...]
Our Field Trip To The Guardian
Today, a few of us went along to the Guardian’s brand spanking, boxfresh new offices in King’s Cross for a tour and a brainstorm. And this is what we saw. A lovely cork stool. Eco-friendly cardboard signs. Bold colour encourages effective mastication. The view was quite nice, don’t you think? I had a unrelenting case [...]
Noli Sinere Te Ab Improbis Opprimi
It’s funny how one little comment (in this case, from an online troll or keyboard warrior, as Will refers to them) can make you stumble and throw you off your stride. Unhappily, that’s what’s happened to me this past week. A vicious combination of blog comments (thankfully filtered through comment moderation) and emails, made me [...]
Breathtaking
This is very dangerously close to becoming a photo blog. Getting a Blackberry Bold with a fairly decent camera means that I’ve been more active in taking photos of interesting things I see. Like this. Charlie walked into work this morning and I thought he’d picked up a smoking habit over the weekend – fancy [...]
What’s Your Daily Routine?
No, don’t worry, I’m not going to start stalking you. I’ve just stumbled upon Daily Routines, a wonderful, more cerebral, more literary version of US Magazine’s ‘Stars…They’re Just Like Us’ section. Once people leave full-time education and go into work, the most common complaint seems to be about following a schedule – getting up at [...]
The Joy of Post
There are folks out there who would argue the case for 100% digital. Digital everything, 24-7. Despite being passionate about digital technology, I think there’s still something in the tangible. Matter know this and have put together an innovative DM comms package that’s very different to anything else in that sector. None of the [...]
Thinking About Why I Blog
Is it for vanity? Is it to have a soapbox? Is it a derivative of the diaries I used to keep when I was a teenager? I expect every regular blogger gets to a point where they start thinking about why they bother. Brazen Careerist recently ran a contest asking their community about how blogging [...]
Hello Media Owners, Please Do Your Research
Everyday I wade through at least 250 emails, 20 phone calls and many, many meetings, some scheduled, some impromptu. About half of the calls I get are sales calls soliciting business. I’m happy to take your calls, but there are a couple of basic things that any good media owner should be doing. 1. [...]
If I Can’t Hear You, I’ll Lip Read
Wearing hearing aids is a very odd thing. As much as they’ve taught me a lot about myself, they’ve taught me a lot about other people, mainly that there is an intense fascination with ‘otherness’ . Here’s the back story: I have a degenerative hearing disorder which has left me with about 60% of my [...]
How To Do Digital Media Planning & Buying
Like many of my recent posts, this one’s been brewing in my head for quite a long time, but between settling back into work after being in Toronto and moving into a new flat, blogging was put on the back burner for a while. Now I’m back and granted I’ve only been at this blogging [...]
