Working in IT is only marginally less stressful than working at CTU, a recent poll suggests. Well colour me surprised – bet if you did a similar poll of carribean beach-bar barmen they’d be moaning about the hazards of falling coconuts, and you’d probably find toy testers losing sleep over the incorrect rendering of Barbie’s [...]

Last week, at Internet World, I was a little surprised at just how much attention my podcasting generated. While many of the crowd were very web savvy, a lot of them still did not quite understand why an Internet company would deal in audio production. The most common question was – “Where’s the money in [...]

This morning I was sitting on the bus, listening to <nme mode>Wildhearts’ frontman Ginger’s confessional rock opus Valor Del Corazon</nme mode> (because nothing says ‘commute’ like a double album about your wife leaving you on account of your heroin habit), thinking about the differences between CDs and mp3s. And how heroin habits are a bit [...]

Hello Earth! When people come to me seeking a deeper understanding of what a web developer does, I usually mumble something about back ends and databases and how it’s much more interesting to do than talk about. Well today I feel like being more forthcoming, so here’s a post about the joys of web dev. [...]

Lately I’ve been spreading myself all over the internet, in the same way as Jonathan Ross is spread across the TV and radio – admittedly without the wit, fame or eyeball-worrying collection of clothes. As I’ve said in previous entries, I’m a big fan of sites like 43things and last.fm, which are busy either recording [...]

It’s very apt to talk about a blogging and podcasting conference right here and if you are one of the many who only currently observe the blogosphere, but are considering throwing yourself in deeper – then this is for you. Delivering the New PR brings together expertise from Europe and America to discuss the importance [...]

Imagine making money on a computer game and then going to a cash machine withdrawing that money and spending it on a real night out. Project Entropia is blurring the boundaries between the real and virtual worlds by creating a cash card allowing its gamers to do just this. But they don’t get something for [...]

Since I logged on this morning and read about Amazon and this weekend’s change of search allegiance from Google to Microsoft for A9.com and alexa.com, America has woken and the debate has moved on a pace. The New York Times has published an article discussing just how potentially serious this battleground is and it is [...]