Category Archives: Journalism

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”

Lionheart Magazine, Adventure issue, 2012. Original article. Down the rabbit hole I don’t know when I changed my mind, but it happened somewhere between the park and the pub. I didn’t want to be with this guy, because I was so raw and fresh from the last one I loved; it takes so long toContinue reading “Down the rabbit hole”

Published in Viator, 2012. Original article here. The Moscow Metro: The People’s Ballroom In a city as rich in monuments and history as Moscow, you may be surprised to find you have to head underground for what is arguably the best attraction of all. The metropolitan public transport system of the Russian capital is oneContinue reading “The Moscow Metro: The People’s Ballroom”

Published in Viator, 2012. Original article here. On the real hippie trail in San Francisco “Are you looking for a restaurant?” I look around and find a little Chinese man smiling at me. You cannot stand on a San Francisco street looking uncertain for long before someone will offer their assistance (or alternatively, ask forContinue reading “On the real hippie trail in San Francisco”

Megabuyte, October 2012. Original article here (£). The Early View Organised chaos: Keeping the start-up spirit alive Valve, the Washington-based gaming company, has been proudly boss-free since its launch in 1996. Founder Gabe Newell remains in charge, but there is no evidence of this in the company literature, which boasts “no middle management, no bureaucracy,Continue reading “Organised chaos: Keeping the start-up spirit alive”

Megabuyte, September 2012. Original article here (£). The Early View Big Data, Big Bang: Change is the new constant The technological Big Bang, courtesy of the coming-of-age of the internet, shows no sign of abating. For businesses, it’s proving useless to wonder where the merry-go-round of change will stop next because in all likelihood itContinue reading “Big Data, Big Bang: Change is the new constant”

*** The Early View from London *** My series on the UK technology start-up community, written for Megabuyte in 2012-13. This followed on from my series about start-up life and tech trends in Silicon Valley (below). * Real time data: Right here, right now. Interviews with GoSquared and Geckoboard – read * When ‘new media’Continue reading “Letters from the start-up frontier”

Megabuyte, September 2012. Original article here (£). The Early View Let’s fill this town with startups! The experience of raising money for Seedrs, the startup crowdfunding company, was exactly the kind of hard slog that Jeff Lynn’s company wants to provide relief from. “We struggled desperately to raise our first seed capital. We kept joking:Continue reading “Let’s fill this town with startups!”