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On Monday, I start as Editor-in-Chief at Adfonic Global Mobile Advertising

by on May 24, 2012 in advertising, blogging, computing, copywriting, disciplines, freelance, personal, PR, strategy

Yep. I decided I needed to work with people on a permanent basis again, and wanted a gig that combined social media, copwriting, and the chance to work in an interesting, online environment for a company that was going places. And I got it! It’s been an, ummm, interesting three years plying my trade as [...]

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Thin client? What thin client?

by on October 29, 2010 in cloudcomputing, computing

I just spent five minutes waiting for my laptop to boot up. It’s a fairly standard spec, running the dog’s breakfast that is Vista, but still, it shouldn’t take that long. In a world of cloud computing, could we be looking ahead to instant start-up as clients get thinner? I doubt it. I’ve documented my [...]

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What’s the sum total of all the computing power in the world?

by on May 21, 2010 in computing, technology

Estimated reading time: 4 minutes OK, so it’s the kind of question a child would ask, but I do have a child’s mind, especially on a Friday. Actually I should have posted about this yesterday because, according to my new blog schedule Thursday is tech day, but I forgot. Actually, that’s a lie. I was [...]

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Just how fast does a PC need to be?

by on May 6, 2010 in cloudcomputing, computing, technology

Estimated reading time: 2.5 minutes (plus 4:13 if you watch the video all the way through) In an effort to get myself back into blogging habits, and to make sure I’m up to date with everything I need to be up to date with, I’ve decided to set myself a schedule. So, today is tech [...]

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Five cool ways to find people on Twitter

by on May 3, 2010 in cloudcomputing, computing, measurement, monitoring, socialmedia, Twitter

This post is probably going to get lost in the Twitter noise – and, judging by my declining stats, hardly anyone reads this blog anyway – but I still find it useful to share knowledge occasionally, not least because every day I don’t post I suffer guilt. I’ve recently been looking around Twitter a lot, [...]

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New Google Twitter search is good but not great

by on December 12, 2009 in computing, measurement, microblogging, monitoring, Twitter

When I heard via Shel Holz that Google is now indexing Twitter updates I got a bit excited for three reasons: 1. Were they going to show the total number of mentions? If so, we could count them as a crude index of popularity. Do a search for a term on Google and it gives [...]

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If it’s easy, it’s probably wrong

by on December 10, 2009 in cloudcomputing, computing, monitoring, RSS, socialmedia, technology

Owing to a bit of downtime – clients disappearing instead of continuing projects, yes I agree, it’s very rude isn’t it – I’ve been fighting with Yahoo Pipes and Netvibes to try and get some sort of effective monitoring solution together. In theory it’s pretty simple. Yahoo Pipes lets you do all sorts of fancy [...]

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Epoch’s Hothouse is hot!

by on October 21, 2009 in cloudcomputing, computing, PR, socialmedia, technology, trends

I’m the digital associate at Epoch PR, until recently CMP Communications. It’s going great so far – we’ve won business together and they’re a lovely bunch of people with some brilliant ideas. But I didn’t realise how brilliant until I attended one of their Hothouse lunches recently. Hothouse is the name they give to their [...]

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Once upon a time…

by on September 30, 2009 in blogging, computing, copywriting, disciplines, personal, RSS, socialmedia, socialmusic, stuff, technology

… I was a copywriter. Then I became a social media planner. Then I became a digital PR senior account manager. Then I was a social media strategist. Then I decided to jack it all in and become a copywriter again. Now, I’m finding I’m sort of all of those at the same time. Confusing, [...]

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