Category Archives: Journalism

Published in Square Mile Magazine, April 2013. Original article here (p78-80). Interview with the Lord Mayor of the City of London, Roger Gifford If the Lord Mayor is the spirit of the City, as Roger Gifford suggests, it is tempting to wonder how his particular brand of banking could stir things up in the City.Continue reading “The other mayor”

This Recording, March 2013. Original article here. Berliner pretzel; Cornish pasty The train terminal at Berlin Schönefeld Airport is just across the lawn of the terminal building. As the plane to London was set to take off in less than 25 minutes I was walking fast across the grass, but I figured there was noContinue reading “Berliner pretzel; Cornish pasty”

Flamingo Magazine, Future Craft issue, March 2013. Knit, purl, catharsis In my garden I can hear the distant sounds of traffic, night and day like a constant hum. This is London, where only a few stars are still visible in the light-polluted sky, hanging over a metropolis of grit and push. I feel it surroundingContinue reading “Knit, purl, catharsis”

Megabuyte, February 2013. Original article here (£). The Early View Is London the hottest place in the world to be a start-up? There is a distinct buzz of optimism surrounding the London start-up scene. Yes, we could do with more money to create more opportunities, but everyone we’ve spoken to agree that London has comeContinue reading “Is London the hottest place in the world to be a start-up?”

Published in Megabuyte, January 2013. Original article here (£). The Early View London startups: The fundraising experience London is rapidly emerging as one of the best places in the world to be a startup. Even if opinions differ on the details, most people in the community seem to agree on this fact. “I think LondonContinue reading “London startups: The fundraising experience”

Published in Viator (here), 2013.  Literary pubs of London: A beer-soaked history The two thousand year old city that is London is a living, breathing history book. While Samuel Johnson was right: “There is in London all that life can afford”, often what we locals like doing most is to haul up in the pub.Continue reading “Literary pubs of London: A beer-soaked history”

Megabuyte, November 2012. Original article here (£). The Early View Land of plenty: London for startup investors The London startup ecosystem now constitutes at least 3,000 tech-focused companies, but possibly as many as 5,000, according to research by Charles Armstrong, the ethnographer and business innovator. Armstrong runs Trampoline Systems in Shoreditch, an award-winning social analyticsContinue reading “Land of plenty: London for startup investors”

Megabuyte, November 2012. Original article here (£). The Early View Content Monetisation: Patchwork solutions (Part 2) It was Twitter that first alerted the world when a passenger plane landed in New York’s Hudson river back in 2009, not the mainstream news outlets. From an industry segment perspective you’d think Twitter was in competition with theContinue reading “Content Monetisation: Patchwork solutions (Part 2)”

Megabuyte, November 2012. Original article here (£). The Early View Content Monetisation: Patchwork solutions (Part 1) “You may have heard something about how our industry is ‘in flux’ due to all this ‘new media’ and the ‘changing landscape’. You know, ‘the internet’.” Ann Friedman wrote this in the Columbia Journalism Review about the publishing industry,Continue reading “Content Monetisation: Patchwork solutions (Part 1)”

Megabuyte, November 2012. Original article here (£). The Early View Real time data: Right here, right now Quick, straightforward and in real time – that’s how we need our data in order to make optimal use of it. But as we get better at gathering information, feeding it back to those who need it becomesContinue reading “Real time data: Right here, right now”