Category: Blogs and Blogging

On Kickstarters about two people, neither of whom are called Blake

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I get a lot of Kickstarter projects emailed to me (probably in an attempt by the projects to get me to mention them on my blog here, or on Twitter, Facebook, Forbes, All About, etc). I tend to read them, and reply with a ‘tell me when it’s finished’ email. But sometimes a project catches my eye outside of the pitches. That’s hen I’m happy to support them So look over ‘The Wife and Blake’, the sequel from the team behind ‘The Wife in Space’, which saw a long-term Doctor WHo fan (Neil Perryman) write-up his wife’s comments on watching

Content farms, old school journalism, and Formula One

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Joe Saward, a decidedly old school journalist who has strong views on the modern web and sports reporting The secret of the F1 media is that it is like a pond. If you drop a stone in the middle, the waves will radiate outwards. The middle is made up the relatively small group of reporters, most of them English. The vast majority of F1 websites have no access at all to the F1 paddock and they are simply part of the ripples on the F1 pond, taking the story from the centre and spreading it. I should flag up at

Choose the right tool for your work

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I’m approaching my one year anniversary of owning a MacBook, and I’m incredibly happy with the service it has given me. I still have my HP laptop on my work desk as the day-to-day machine, but the MacBook Pro 13 has been the tool I’ve used when travelling, when away covering events such as SXSW and Eurovision, and for a decent amount of use around the house as well. But last July the MacBook Pro had one main goal to fulfil – and I’m glad to say that no matter how much fun I am having with other areas, the

Does it matter if the Tumblr of a dying start-up is real or not?

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Currently anonymous: Through a series of unfortunate events, I took a bootstrapped (and profitable) startup onto the VC rocket ship. Now it’s crashing into the ground. Hard. It could be true, it could be a fascinating piece of storytelling, it could be a rather interesting way to launch a new start-up, or it could be a great Second Class Male look at Silicon Valley… no matter what it is, I’m keeping an eye on ‘My Start-up Has Thirty Days To Live’.

Some thoughts on podcasting and what engages me

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Last week I had the opportunity to experience podcasting from the other side, as a listener looking in to a world and being guided by experts on the other side of my headphones, and it remind me just how powerful podcasting can be when it finds the right environment. The event was the 24 Heures du Mans, and my guides were the team at Radio Le Mans. In the build up to the event they previewed the four classes of cars that were racing, reported daily on the practices around the circuit, covered the scrutineering, the damp fizzle that was

#Back2Blog and my current thinking around this blog

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An interesting post from Stephanie Tara caught my eye last week – she was ‘rebooting’ her blog with the #Back2Blog hashtag, and committing to ten blog posts over ten days. For the next ten days [starting Monday 24th June, today], I’m going to write a post a day. I’ll keep it short: blogging used to be quick and dirty, and somewhere between the arrival of Facebook and Twitter, posts have started growing into long essays that take hours to write… How short is short? Roughly a screenful. Not more. I have a ton of ideas to blog about, and view