Category Archives: digital
Jo Fairley and the rainbow glitch
Tweet My first-ever animated gif is of a series of pretty glitches that appeared in a video with chocolate entrepreneur Jo Fairley, co-founder of Green & Black’s. She’s generating rainbows… And here is a glitch still of the lady herself … Continue reading
RebelMouse ‘social front page’ on test
Tweet Okay, so I’ve tried ScoopIt, Bundlr and Storify but not Pinterest. Let’s see how the curation element of new RebelMouse works, which is similar to Pinterest. So here’s my social media splash page, which pulls in my blog feeds, … Continue reading
Pedestrian manga love story
Tweet Inked by Pete Ashton using his new iPhone app Manga-Camera and captioned by me from a real-life event.
Helping print sub-editors go digital
Tweet Kings Cross last Saturday – and I delivered my first-ever workshop. While the rest of the UK was firing up the barbecue to make the most of a beautiful sunny afternoon, seven sub-editors were arriving at the very cool … Continue reading
Photo School, Friday School and Social Media Group Therapy
Tweet This is obviously the Year of the School. Firstly, there’s my moveable cake-fuelled feast of learning, the Friday School, while over on the other office sofa, Pete has just launched Matt and Pete’s Photo School. Photo School is a … Continue reading
Welcome to Friday school (or how I developed my own freelance training programme)
Tweet UPDATE: I’ve blogged a fuller version of this as a guest post on Firehead.net if you want to know more: How I teach myself digital skills using cake!
Cantal press trip blogged – and a travel request
Tweet Just back from a week in the centre of France in a little known area called the Cantal. It may be “one of the most sparsely populated and geographically isolated French departments”, according to Wikipedia, but it does have … Continue reading
Travmedia launches new social network for travel trade
Tweet Travmedia, a press release and journalist alert service which connects journalists and PRs, has just made a very smart move (I hope) by launching a Facebook-style social network, that will facilitate many more travel trade connections and work opportunities, … Continue reading
Dataviz first attempts
Tweet Having wrestled with a significant number of roadblocks for what is a fairly straightforward dataset, I am happy to announce the birth of my first data visualisation comparing 2011 figures for the percentage of women in the boardroom across … Continue reading
News from my blogs
Tweet Having different blogs for different subject areas means that I am a slave to them all. So if it’s quiet here on my central hub then it’s probably because I’m over on one of my other workday or spare-time … Continue reading
