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Space Mission UK: A Week of Science, Innovation and Inspiration in California. And an Election, too.

November 25, 2016 · by · in Geekery, Marketing

Witnessing the US election up close was surreal. I was lucky enough to spend that week travelling the length of California with ten of the UK’s top “New Space” companies for the third Space Mission UK trip. As we boarded… [read more]

The Best Job in the World? (for Cricket Fans)

February 19, 2011 · by · in Miscellany, Social

In the midst of the frenetic activity of Social Media Week London #smwldn, I popped along to the BBC’s Sport & Social Media panel and caught up with Adam Mountford, producer of every cricket fan’s audio bible, Test Match Specia

Joining the dots

January 18, 2009 · by · in Half-baked

Procrastination can be a wonderful thing.

Honestly, bear with me on this. Whilst I am furiously working away on the website for Chinwag’s new media department, the Twhirl client that sits on the far left-hand side of the screen constantly refreshes with the stream of consciousness that emanates from the people I follow on Twitter. Some people call them Tweeps, but I’ve clenched slightly just typing that phrase, so I won’t.

Sometimes, just sometimes, this can lead to voyage of discovery of something that gets the old noggin’ ticking over. So, join those dots…