A weary hello from O’Hare Airport in Chicago, Illinois – the world’s coldest and most inhospitable airport, right in the frozen heart of the world’s coldest and most inhospitable city. That a community organizer from this city would dream of becoming President is no surprise. Chicago is, after all, the only place in the world [...]

First of all, thanks to everyone who has downloaded the ebook of ‘Bringing Nothing’ so far. The response has been ridiculously good – I’ll write more about the specifics soon, but suffice it to say sales of both the paperback and the Kindle edition have hopped up.
Secondly, I’m pleased to announce the launch of BringingNothingToTheParty.com [...]

I just gave away the entire PDF to Bringing Nothing via TechCrunch. Here’s my column explaining the decision…
“So that’s your advice is it? As my agent? On the week my book comes out in paperback, I should produce my own pirated version and give it away free? Why don’t I just punch my publisher in [...]

This time next week, if Mel Tormé is to be believed, chestnuts will be roasting on an open fire and Jack Frost will be nipping at your nose. There will also be some business with a sleigh. But Christmas is still a whole seven days away and right now it’s business as usual on TechCrunch, [...]

It’s that time of the years again. This time exactly two years ago I was sitting in my East Dulwich flat, hacking away at the manuscript for Bringing Nothing. I just looked back at the version from December 15th – near enough this point – and the document was a little over 25,000 words in [...]

Day two of Le Web and I’m hard at work: perched on the edge of a gigantic bed in the speakers’ lounge, having an important meeting with my friend Andy. Our agenda: trying to come up with amusing ways to fuck with Daniel Ek of Spotify.
Ek (pronounced “Eek” – he’s Swedish) recently became our favourite [...]

This time last week, I turned 3o. To celebrate I threw a party at Adam Street.
Half way through the night a girl who I’d invited on a whim after she atted  me on Twitter came up to me and we had the following conversation…
Her: (borderline offended) “Hey! Your Twitter profile is bullshit. You’re not ‘kind [...]

Video of my panel at Le Web. In case you care.

I don’t want to write about Le Web this year. Really I don’t.
This time last year, while I was still at the Guardian, I stumbled back to my Parisian hotel room at the end of the first day of the conference and fired off a thousand words rounding up the highs and not-insignificant lows of [...]