Posts from September 2008

Smack My Pitch Up: The Long Fail Live! (September 7th, 2008)

Apparently there’s some pitch event or other going on in San Francisco this week.
I’m not really sure of the details but, whoever the organisers are, they might at least have checked first to ensure it didn’t clash with….
Smack My Pitch Up: the tech event when terrible ideas are not just expected, but rewarded.
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My new start-up. This could be huge (September 2nd, 2008)

Further to this morning’s Creature Comforts sex mash-up, I’m delighted to announce my brand new start-up…
TinyEarl.net
Launch party date tbc.
(Can you tell I’m deadline displacing today?)



Creature Discomfort (September 2nd, 2008)

About an hour ago, Adam Gee, New Media Commissioner at Channel 4, Twittered about the Channels’ new site, Sexperience. It launches tomorrow and sounds rather interesting.
But now, go to the site and watch the video on the front page. Then you’ll realise why I couldn’t resist wasting forty five minutes making this…

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Citizen Lame: debating the future of a diseased branch (September 1st, 2008)

Talk to a random sample of journalists and they’ll tell you the same thing – no one commissions investigative journalism any more.
Talk to any editor and they’ll tell you why; it costs a fortune to produce and rarely adds anything in terms of circulation or bottom line.
In an era of plummeting circulation and competition from [...]



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