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The information diet

Did you survive the festivities? We had a good one at Reed Towers, and enjoyed the patter of tiny feet around the estate. There’s nothing like having a midget for a butler, as W.C. Fields would say. I’m now also emerging from the seasonal sugar coma induced by all those Cadbury’s Heroes, mince pies and [...]

Olympian Relaunch

I know. It’s been a while since I posted here. I’ve been busy. I have launch fever. In the last few weeks I’ve launched a new business, two websites and some new features on Publishing Talk (a bookstore and a jobs section). Now I’m relaunching this blog, with a new theme that aggregates more of [...]

Gordon’s alive!

Wow. We now have a nationalised banking sector in the UK. And Europe. And now America. Who’dathoughtit?
Didn’t I say that the Brown Plan was better than the Paulson Plan? It’s now been copied around the world, and our Dear Leader has been feted by no less than Paul Krugman in every TV interview going, following [...]

A crisis of two halves

As the mist cleared from Canary Wharf this morning, it almost felt like we were waking up in the People’s Republic of Britain. We now have a nationalised banking sector. OK, partly nationalised. But who could have imagined such a thing even last month?
Hot on the heels of the Paulson Plan (aka the Bush Bank [...]

Cobblers to the Credit Crunch

I just saw an item on BBC News about how certain businesses are thriving in the credit crunch - such as cobblers, as people economise by getting their Manolos mended rather than junking their Jimmy Choos. So what other businesses are recession-proof?
Don’t say loan sharks and reposession companies, you cynics at the back. Pizza delivery [...]

Digital gulag

Despite the proliferation of outdoorsy images on this blog lately, I’ve been rather confined to quarters in recent weeks, doing hard labour in the digital gulag in which I seem to have incarcerated myself. Yes, dear reader, I am currently trapped inside your screen like General Zod in the Phantom Zone. And it’s going to [...]

The office

The view from my office this lunchtime. And, below, the view from just outside my front door, by the lake at Reed Towers, where I was working this afternoon. I have lots of reading to get through this week, and this is the perfect spot to do it. It’s probably just about within wireless broadband [...]

Happy Birthday, .eu!

Regular readers will know that I’m something of a Europhile, and a political anorak, so I was delighted to be invited on a little junket to the European Parliament in Brussels this week. The event was to mark two years of the .eu domain name, which I use for Reed Media and Publishing Talk.
Reed Media [...]

Work-life integration

Has it really been a month since I wrote anything here? Wot a slacker. I have, of course, been busy since I came back down the Alp - and failing slightly in my aspirations for work-life integration.
On the plane back from Lyon, I read an interesting article in The Guardian by John Carvel (welcome [...]

Publishing Talk re-launch

Yes, Publishing Talk re-launched this week, with a new look, new branding, and a new domain name. You can catch up on the latest posts here:

Seth Godin action figure (29 Feb)
a community of readers (27 Feb)
new publishing talk (25 Feb)
last post (24 Feb)
Second Life in real life… (31 Jan)