Working The Pipeline
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This is the mistake I have made over and over in my career. This time around, I have no intention of repeating it.… Read More
509 Words Of Nothing To Say
It feels like I don’t have much to say at the moment. Every time a reminder pops up from my calendar to tell me to blog, I look at it blankly. Odd, because it’s not like there is nothing going on around here. Quite the contrary. I have had this … Read More
Online Evolution
As technology changes, so do we. Since Social Media hit us, we’ve been changing the way we do things continuously. Just one example is this blog. The way I let people know what I was doing before was by commenting on other blogs, sending out an email to a database … Read More
Social Media Me
Rainy Monday morning in Amsterdam after a glorious sunny weekend… Somewhat of a come down, but still, I can’t complain. Had an interesting response to my Facebook post about what to write next. Facebook really is a work day, office hour’s kind of thing for most people I see. Only … Read More
Literate City
Literature and writing is a great way to learn your way around a city: its real and metaphorical limits, its identity and sense of self. These stories, both factual and imagined, give you a sense of the emotional and intellectual norms that you will encounter and feel while in that … Read More
The Art Of Floating: Turd v Cream
Today’s blog is about digital technology and the arts… I think. But that’s where I want to start anyway! It’s about giving things away for free and the value that people ascribe to things. It’s about how we see the world of art and business and how these two things … Read More
The Universe, Writing and Everything
So today is the start of my new life in Amsterdam when it comes to a focus on work… I have been here a bit, but from today, I am starting the routine thing up again: get up and get going with some specified tasks. Since I last blogged I … Read More
P p p p p poetry
For a lot of people my decision to publish a collection of my poetry came out of left field. If I have a public reputation at all it is as a journalist and as someone who wrote an advice book. But as I mentioned in a previous post, this all … Read More
Getting More Or Less Social?
So, I have been trying out some new stuff on Twitter… all the stuffs the pros have been doing, you know? Hash tags, regular tweets, proper shortened URL’s and stuff. Wow, it has been fun but man, you have to be ORGANISED to do this properly! I also have my … Read More