One of the most tiresome group of people you encounter when you write a weekly column is the “suggesters”.
Throughout the week, my inbox receives a steady flow of emails; from friends, from colleagues, but mostly from total strangers – all containing useful links to stories they “assume I’ve seen”. And always with the same suggestion: [...]

When I first heard about this “Thanksgiving” thing, I thought it sounded like a great idea.
We Brits spend a ridiculous amount of time each day giving thanks to strangers – we say thanks to people who hold doors for us, thanks to people who stop their cars to let us cross the road, thanks to [...]

On my way back from Thanksgiving dinner at the Lacy-Ellis household, I wandered past this. Brilliant!

Can you tell I’m work-displacing? Click for interactive version.

Yesterday I spent the day at TechCrunch’s ‘Real Time Crunch-up’. This despite having no idea what a ‘Crunch-up’ actually is.
The important thing is that Erick had asked me to help moderate his panel about marketing within ‘real-time streams’, which is a subject close to my heart. So close in fact, that had he asked me [...]

About 11 o’clock last night – six hours ago now – I decided to get an early night. Sure enough, two hours later I woke up, bright as a button, and now can’t get back to sleep. I’m not built for early nights.
In an attempt to get back to sleep I’ve decided to open a [...]

My publicist sent me a copy of the new mass-market paperback (UK) edition of Bringing Nothing To The Party. I really like it…

The back cover copy is great too – it has footnotes!

So Belle De Jour was real after all. The Internet’s most famous anonymous sex blogger – turned best-selling author – turned internationally successful TV series – has finally outed herself in the UK’s Sunday Times. And it turns out she’s a character straight from the pages of XKCD.
From her interview with the Times’ India Knight, [...]

As any industry analyst will tell you, since its two journalists were returned from North Korea, Current.tv has been woefully overstaffed. The company simply doesn’t require that many employees to edit YouTube clips for its audience of jobless hipster doucheballs who have fallen asleep in front of the television.
And so it wasn’t entirely surprising this [...]

I’d love to have witnessed the scene at eBay’s house back in 2005 when the FedEx guy delivered their exciting new purchase…
“Hey, guys! Skype’s arrived!”
“Awesome! Quick – open it…”
“Wait, what the hell… this isn’t what we ordered. It’s just a big box full of users with the word ‘Skype’ written on the side in Sharpie [...]