Writing, marketing and technology
One of the nice things about running a business like Turbine is that I get to talk to company owners and managers. We have a few hundred users now and so it’s like a little, exclusive social network. I think it is the same motivation that took me into business journalism a decade ago and [...]
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Last week I got a sneak preview of the new HP Slate 2 tablet. It’s pretty cool – it weighs just over a pound and runs Windows 7. If the iPad 2 is like a big magazine in size, the Slate 2 is more like a big paperback. With a USB or Bluetooth keyboard it [...]
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I manage HP’s small business blog in the UK: HP Business Answers. Part of the job is making little video reviews of their notebooks. Here are a couple of recent videos. The 8560p is an awesomely powerful notebook, like a big, powerful 4×4, while the 5330m is more like a little sports car, light and [...]
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New camera, new software, new laptop. Let’s make a video!
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I enjoyed A Whole New Mind by Daniel Pink and I’m looking forward to reading his new one Drive. But I was delighted to find this animation from the Royal Society of Arts (RSA) which illustrates a talk he gave there recently. You can also watch a 40m video of his talk on the RSA’s website. (Full [...]
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First off, I have to admit that I am a big Kawasaki fan. His first book, The Macintosh Way (now a free download), got me excited about running my own business and helped me launch Intelligent Games when I was at college. I was lucky enough to meet him in 2002 and he is as [...]
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From the Definitely Worth Subscribing department comes The Economist’s Johnson blog which resurrects the column of the same name that used to appear in the magazine. It’s what Bad Language wants to be when it grows up.
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One of the most popular pages on this site is How to be a freelance journalist, which is based on my experiences in that job in the early 2000s. It’s a tough gig and getting tougher. Because of this post, Marc Leverton interviewed me for his recent book, How to work as a freelance journalist. [...]
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It’s a real shame that this Podbrix set has sold out. I want one. I particularly like the LEGO Space Odyssey calendar and the LEGO Apple II. Perhaps I should go get some LEGO for my birthday; it’s been a while. (Hat tip: Mashable.)
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I went to see Jerusalem at the Apollo Theatre on Tuesday night and Twelfth Night at the Bridewell theatre on Wednesday lunchtime. I recommend them both. Jerusalem was outstanding. Mark Rylance delivered a precise, compelling and surprisingly physical performance in the lead role of Rooster Byron. His character combines Falstaff and Churchill. He is the [...]
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Matthew Stibbe is CEO of Articulate Marketing and Turbine, the easy, online way to deal with office paperwork. He edits Golf Hotel Whiskey and writes the Forbes Aviator column.
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