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> @maxtb [https://twitter.com/maxtb] @tchl [https://twitter.com/tchl] The nuances are invented by aspirants who yearn to work as professional journalists but lack the ability. — Tim Luckhurst (@TCHL) August 9, 2012 [https://twitter.com/TCHL/status/233670107631603713] I enjoy good writing. I enjoy strong investigative writing that
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My latest for Wired UK, considering whether the iPod Nano could simply start to build in quantified self features and make life tough for Fitbit and co. There’s another device out there that sits in that price point and has already started ticking some of the boxes that would
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Initial thoughts on the Microsoft Surface tablets, announced yesterday (read up at The Verge. [http://www.theverge.com/2012/6/18/3095683/microsoft-surface-tablet-versus-ipad-android] ) Warning: There are some generalisations ahead but I think they are ones we can all live with… #perksofnotbeingafulltimejourno MARKET Firstly: you aren’t going to buy a
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Recently, there has been a lot of talk about how Google is no longer the company it used to be – for example this ridiculous article [http://marketingland.com/once-deemed-evil-google-now-embraces-paid-inclusion-13138] by Danny Sullivan on paid inclusion last month.* From its search page design [http://www.davidmihm.com/blog/google/world/] to
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Having spent days trying to get my work email to send after getting O2 Broadband, a solution emerged from their excellent Twitter customer service. From a ton of internet stalking, I knew it was something to do with the SMTP service being blocked according to a load of reading but
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Saw the video below and had one of those massive “what if” moments – How ‘Steve Jobs’ would it be to test new Apple products on single, old-aged individuals who probably won’t spill the beans? Who else are you going to sit an iPad in front to do user experience
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[https://i0.wp.com/farm1.static.flickr.com/213/451861781_0245fd6060.jpg] With its IPO now public, Facebook is about to enter something of dark zone for announcements – a move which will no doubt leave a void for speculation and rumour among tech writers. So I thought I might jump
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Back in September 2010, Facebook went on a really interesting PR offensive – including a flurry [http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/09/20/100920fa_fact_vargas?currentPage=all] of activity [http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2010/10/sean-parker-201010?currentPage=all] when The Social Network launched and the announcement of
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There has been a lot of conversation in the last couple of years about online privacy. But I think actually there’s a bigger theme that it all plays into – for me, these years have been just as much about shifting digital inhibitions. What does that mean? Let’s take
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A little while ago, I put a few thoughts together for this blog based on Kindle potentially becoming a platform for saving, reading and buying content web-wide – like Instapaper meets the App Store. Only, instead of publishing it here, I pitched it into technology bible Wired and it was published
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Management is a skill and a great example of nature and nurture coming together as one. In PR, there’s no way to skip straight to management. It’s vocational enough that you simply can’t start delegating without the proper understanding of what you’re asking of people, what
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We’ve all seen it – it’s one of those days. A “trender”. Something you have little to no interest in (Big Brother, X Factor, Cricket) will now litter your feed tweet after tweet, with no end in sight. Once you’ve heard that Steve Jobs is on the way