Writing, marketing and technology
I think this this guy has completely figured it out. What an amazing world we live in – flight, computers, internet etc. – and yet everyone’s pissed off all the time. “You’re sitting in a chair … in the sky” and “Give it a second! It’s going into space!” I couldn’t agree more. As they [...]
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I have just launched Turbine, the easy way to take care of business admin including HR records, staff time-off, purchase requests and, soon, expenses and timesheets. (Check it out – feedback welcome!) It has been in development for a year. Here are some lessons that I have learned along the way: Turbine screen shot showing [...]
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Despite this blog’s name, I very rarely talk about profanity and swearing. However, this blog post caught my eye. Daniel Huffman has produced a heatmap of swearwords in geotagged tweets to show where people swear the most in the US. Fascinating. I’d love to see something similar for the UK. My bet is that we [...]
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Ik dacht dat dit foto heel grappig was. Ik lachte.
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We live in an age of computer databases. While the UK’s Data Protection Act gives you some rights, including a Subject Access Request where you can formally ask for a copy of information held about you, it feels stuck in the 20th century. For example: How do I know if an organisation holds data about [...]
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Like most men, I view clothes shopping as a necessary evil. Something to be done once every few years to replace clothes that have worn out. Sometimes my wife organises an intervention and appoints one of her friends to drag me round the shops and buy smart clothes (thanks Katie). In short, I’m not [...]
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I’ve been lucky, I guess. In my life, I have had the chance to meet many of my personal heroes. For example, I met two of the astronauts who walked on the moon and I got to know Will Wright, creator of SimCity and The Sims, quite well when I worked on SimIsle. I’ll always [...]
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My post yesterday about origin stories and TV shows provoked some interesting comments. The most common theme was praise for James Burke’s Connections. Here is a famous and joyous scene from the series. The whole series is on YouTube (bravo!) but the big question is: where can we find a James Burke fan club? I [...]
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After yesterday’s post about origin stories, somebody asked me what mine was. It’s not really a place but a TV programme. In 1981, Horizon produced “Painting by Numbers” which was about computer graphics, their history and future. I was 12 and it inspired me. The rest of my career has been an effort to explore [...]
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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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